Unit 2: Educational AI Tools
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Unit Overview🗓️
By the conclusion of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Identify different AI tools and their intended purpose.
- Explain how specific AI tools can be integrated into the classroom.
- Compare and contrast different AI tools, including their affordances and drawbacks.
Tasks
- Read the mini-lecture and explore the resources provided.
- Complete the discussion by posting one initial post and two responses to peers’ posts.
- Reflect on what you learned and how you will apply it in your learning journal.
Mini-Lecture🗒️
When beginning the process of integrating AI tools into the classroom, it's important for educators to understand the type of educational AI tools that are offered and how they can be applied to support student learning in the classroom. As we learned in the last unit, AI tools can provide numerous avenues to help support student learning, and can make teachers' lives in the classroom easier as well. AI can provide students with personalized tutoring, help ELL students with language translation, create interactive learning opportunities for students, provide adaptive learning based on students’ progress, and aid teachers with automatically grading assignments, such as essays[1]. The possibilities that different AI tools provide are endless, but utilizing the proper tool is imperative when integrating AI into your own classroom.
It is difficult to summarize all of the AI tools in education and the unique capabilities that they each provide. Provided is a brief overview of some of the ways AI can be applied to education:
- Virtual Mentors are AI tools applied to platforms and can assist learners by providing instant feedback and practice material for them, creating a more student-centered learning experience that can address their needs in real-time.[2]
- Voice Assistants are similar to virtual mentors, but relies on students using their voices to interact with the program. Voice assistants can create more efficient routes for students to find content to assist their learning. Common examples include Siri and Cortana.[2]
- Smart Content are AI tools that can help organize, find, and categorize books and digital content more quickly and efficiently. Smart Content can even give recommendations based on what you’re searching for.[2]
- Presentation Translator is an AI technology that can provide students with real-time subtitles, and allow students to hear or read texts in their native language. Presentation Translator can allow students to access more diverse courses that they previously may not have had access to due to language barriers.[2]
- Global Courses uses AI technology to allow students to search and enroll in online courses worldwide. The platform recommends courses based on key words and provides users with free and interactive options from providers like MOOCS to Google AI and more.[2]
- Automatic Assessment is more teacher-focused, allowing teachers to create and grade assessments more efficiently. These AI technologies can allow teachers to select different subject types, difficulty of questions, and other characteristics of the assessment, along with automatically correcting for the teacher and tracking the results of the assessment.[2]
- Personalized Learning, similar to other AI technologies discussed so far, offers students with personal assistants that can cater to their personal needs as learners. An example of this would be Khan Academy and Duolingo, where AI collects students' data to tailor learning to the student and allows them to progress at their own pace.
- In Educational Games, AI technology has been utilized to create an immersive experience for students, helping students stay engaged and preventing them from being bored by regulating dynamic game elements.[2]
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are AI technologies that adapt to students' needs and provide them with a personalized learning experience without the need for human intervention. ITS can adjust the difficulty of the content and activities to more accurately meet the rigor needed to engage the student while learning.[2]
These types of AI technologies are some of the categories of educational AI tools that can be utilized by educators to support their students and themselves.
Discussion🤔
Provided hereis a data base of various AI tools that educators can utilize. The data base is includes general AI tools that can be used for any purpose to tools specifically designed to support educators. Explore some of the tools provided prior to beginning your discussion post. You will be expected to post one initial post to begin the discussion, and two responses to peer post. To get everyone involved in discussions, please spread your response to other peers' posts. The goal of discussions is to get everyone involved, so strive to involve a classmate if they haven’t been included yet.
Discussion Prompt: Review three of the AI technologies provided on the data base. Assess the effectiveness of these AI tools in regards to their purpose. What are the benefits and challenges that each tool may pose to an educator looking to effectively integrate it into their classroom?
Learning Journal📓
Reflect on what you have learned so far in the course. This a space where you can talk freely. Some guiding questions have been provided to help you begin.
- What are some new ideas that you are learning?
- How are these ideas impacting your understanding of education?
- What questions or challenges do you have so far in the course?
Use the link provided here to record your thoughts.
Unit References 🧠
- ↑ Baidoo-Anu, D., & Ansah, L. O. (2023). Education in the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI): Understanding the potential benefits of ChatGPT in promoting teaching and learning. Journal of AI, 7(1), 52-62.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Fitria, T. N. (2021, December). Artificial Intelligence (AI) In Education: Using AI Tools for Teaching and Learning Process. In Prosiding Seminar Nasional & Call for Paper STIE AAS (Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 134-147).