You may think AIs are a replacement for our brains. After all, when you can’t figure out a math problem or don’t remember a history fact, all it takes is asking your virtual assistant a quick question to find a result.
However, AIs are enhancing our education. By taking advantage of artificial intelligence, several schools are giving teachers more tools to help their students and taking unnecessary burdens away from students so they can better retain information.
What efforts are AIs making to improve our education?
- AI Are Grading for Us
Grading takes a great deal of time away from teachers, both on a K-12 level and a college level. This is time that could be better spent on interacting with students and providing individual attention, but teachers simply don’t have the schedule to do both. AIs are making it possible for the educators to use their human creativity where it’s most needed – with students – by providing technical and accurate assistance in grading the work. There are still some errors to be found in this process, as each student is different and a good grade isn’t always a technically accurate grade, but the technology is evolving to close that gap.
- AIs Can Track Student Knowledge
For a teacher, it’s difficult to devote individual attention to each student. Understanding which pupils are actually grasping the knowledge and which need more help is hard to assess even face-to-face, but AIs are helping identify how much students are actually learning. Adaptive learning systems such as DreamBox are able to assess results from a student, such as with their grades and classroom participation, and assess how much knowledge each student is actually gaining. On top of this, it’s able to recommend the steps for teachers to help each student learn more and overcoming stumbling blocks in their education. So if one pupil is more hands-on, the AI will recommend whys the teacher can cater to this, while if one student thrives better with another teaching technique, it’ll suggest ways for the teacher to accommodate.
- AI Scheduling Improves Teacher-Student Interaction
Sometimes there just isn’t enough time in the day. When students need to speak with their teacher, and teachers need to make time for one-on-one interaction, scheduling in a way that suits both can be an impossible task. The AI system NewClassrooms is simplifying the process by gathering data on student and teacher schedules, and providing a customized look on when the best time to interact would be. This is made possible with insights based on habits and actual workloads. So even if you have a free day but usually devote it to something else, the AI will be able to assess your most productive and free days so you can help students without disrupting your own life.
- AI’s Can Teach Humans How to Better Teach
Learning from other’s example doesn’t stop once you’ve graduated. There may be some teachers within a school who possess better practices and more effective habits for teaching, managing their time, or even coming up with lesson plans. Rather than agonizing personally on which teacher to use as an inspiration, AI systems such as BrightBytes Clarity analyze all teach habits and schedules, and condense the most effective practices across the board. This makes it possible for teachers to view in clear data how their students react to certain techniques, what schedule brings about the best results, and who seems to have the best approach to information retention among their pupils. Therefore, teachers can look at these examples and apply them to their own teaching more effectively.
- AI’s Can Find the Perfect Teachers
The best way for a school or university to teach students is finding the perfect teacher for them. Systems such as MyEdMatch and TeacherMatch are designed especially to locate the best teachers available and match them up based off of history, practices, and personality with the schools and classes they’re best suited for. In simple terms, it’s much like a dating site, but for schools; it finds the most compatible option for those seeking out a companion – and in this case, it’s an educator.
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