President Trump recently signed a decree Focus on educational opportunities surrounding artificial intelligence. Among other things, he established a working group to promote education and tools related to AI in class.
Jing Lei
It is a major development area for Dr Jing LeiProfessor of the Syracuse University School of Education whose research interests include the integration of technology into emerging schools and technologies for education.
Dr. Lei says that overall, the integration of AI into education K-12 is the right direction to follow. “Many other countries have started to integrate AI into their educational systems from kindergarten to 12th year several years ago. For example, South Korea has unveiled a plan to deeply integrate AI into their public education system in 2023. The 2019 Japan AI strategy called for the integration of AI into the entire education system, “said Lei.
Dr. Lei also offers ways that educators may think about integrating AI into their classrooms.
Q: Are there currently standards accepted to integrate AI from a learning perspective or as a tool for educators?
A: Organizations have published guidelines on how to integrate AI into education, and researchers made various suggestions on effective strategies in the use of AI to improve teaching and learning. For example, UNESCO has published “Guide for a generative AI in education and research” In 2023. These guidelines focus on a human -centered approach and provided suggestions on a complete framework to integrate generative AI tools into educational and research contexts. In August 2024, UNESCO also published “AI skills frames for students and teachers”This described the knowledge and skills necessary for teachers and students to work with AI technologies.
AI is not only an education tool. It is also the study program, an assistant for teachers and students, and a learning environment.
Q: What should the districts think beyond popular tongue models like Chatgpt?
A: In addition to popular LLMs such as Chatgpt, there are many diverse and education tools focused on education and platforms integrated into AI. These AI resources can help teachers with their teaching and school administrators with their daily tasks and their education management. School districts can examine different and growing AI technologies to decide what would work best for their community.
In addition to providing resources and support, it is the responsibility of the school district to provide advice and policies to define clear ethical directives on the use of AI, regulate data use and protection, and ensure equity and access in the use of AI in classrooms.
AI is not only an education tool. It is also the study program, an assistant for teachers and students, and a learning environment. And everything changes quickly when AI technology continues to develop. School heads must consider nature with multiple facets and rapid evolution of AI in their adoption of AI technology.
By working in a complementary way with AI, the role of teachers focuses on the help of students to give meaning to their learning, to support the overall development of students and to maintain the interest and motivation of the students to learn.
Q: Are there any ways to help teachers that people may not know?
A: The AI can certainly help teachers improve their current practices, however, the best way in AI can help teachers are that teachers work with complementation with AI technology to personalize education. This means that AI and the teacher contribute each to improve the strengths of the other. The AI can assume more routine and long tasks to release teachers to focus on man -centered aspects and focused on the creativity of education. For example, AI tools can provide immediate comments on students ‘performance, a personalized scaffolding practice based on the individual students’ differences and help students learn at their own pace; Although the teacher can examine the reports generated by AI to identify the areas where students need more support and advice, help students establish links and a sense of content and, above all, to establish human connections and to provide emotional and psychological support to students in their learning process.
By working in a complementary way with AI, the role of teachers focuses on the help of students to give meaning to their learning, to support the overall development of students and to maintain the interest and motivation of the students to learn.
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