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The rapid advances, widespread use, and projections for the future of AI require educators to address its impact on teaching and learning. How does AI change what students need to learn? Can teachers use AI to be more effective with their students? Can schools mitigate the risks involved in students and teachers using AI? Can it help address the long-standing equity of opportunity and achievement gaps that were exacerbated by the pandemic? Can it help improve teachers working conditions to better attract and retain dedicated teachers? Can it enable administrators to be more effective managers and communicators? Overall, how can educators employ AI to help meet today’s education requirements while addressing the changes in goals, standards, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment required to prepare students for the AI-permeated world?

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AI is not just a shiny tech buzzword. It’s a powerful tool that’s reshaping our approach to education, especially in the realm of self-paced learning. AI empowers educators to provide students with tailored learning paths, immersive experiences, and real-time feedback—elements that boost engagement and facilitate deeper learning.

Scalability is a crucial aspect of online education, especially when it comes to personalized learning. As online education demand continues to grow, it is important to ensure that personalized learning experiences are accessible to all students.

Discover how assistive technology and digital tools for reading, writing, and more, can support dyslexic students.

AI-powered question or assessment generators help educators create activities, tasks, quizzes, and tests more efficiently. Instead of starting from scratch, use this Formative AI tool as a co-pilot. You can get inspiration from these questions, variants of questions, answer keys, and hints that AI has generated.

How has technology-facilitated distance education for teacher professional development changed in the past decade, especially post COVID-19?

Students yearn for constructive feedback. However, some feedback can be discouraging if not well received by the students. There is individual variation in how students are used to getting feedback

When VaNessa Thompson wants to truly focus on doing homework for her doctoral classes at Oakland University near Detroit, she gets out her smartphone. She’s all alone at home, except that she’s not. “It helps people create a community around studying,” she says.
Thompson is part of a trend of college and high school students who stream themselves studying on TikTok or YouTube, often using the hashtag #studywithme.

I engaged in several conversations with ChatGPT-4 on these topics. I was surprised at how helpful it could be. I will continue to use this tool in this way. I think the more I use it, the better I will become at helping it help me.

Preventing students from cheating and using AI to answer assignments completely is a challenging task. However, there are several strategies that educators can employ to minimize cheating and encourage authentic learning:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically GPT-4, was found to match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard creativity test.

Worldchat Live Education is a video chat platform that was founded in 2018 by M.Ed. Anne-Marie LaFortune and formally launched in 2020. It allows teachers and students to conduct conversations in English with other learners around the world.

The development of empathy has played a significant role in my work over the last few years. From developing students’ soft skills to working on interfaith dialogue courses, one of the features at the core of each has been a focus on developing students’ abilities to empathise with and understand the feelings and motivation of others. In my opinion there is a real deficit of empathy in our world at present, with the increasing polarisation of political views and the algorithmic reinforcement of our own biases, this is something I feel we as teachers urgently need to redress.

The core idea of e-learning mobile and web applications is making the process available anytime and anywhere through personal devices.

As with any emerging technology, it is wise for educators to not only coexist with ChatGPT but also consider integrating it into their teaching methods.

The world is increasingly going digital, and this trend will continue in the future. Because of this, teaching students about digital citizenship is more important than it has ever been.

Schools are using a modified version of the Six Thinking Hats technique to teach students how to give effective feedback to one another.

My friend George Couros once said, “If students leave school less curious than when they have started, we have failed them.” I tend to agree. I’ve never heard of a cosmologist who says, “I’m done with the universe. No more questions here.” I’ve also never seen an engineer who says, “I’m an expert now. I really don’t need to figure out how stuff works.”

Hybrid writing, co-created by human and artificial intelligence together is becoming prevalent. Soon it will be the norm. Trying to determine where the human ends and where the artificial intelligence begins is pointless and futile.

An important step in the adoption of the latest tech to hit the education realm is to make sure those most affected understand what it is and how it can help.

We polled 2,000 people about how they’re using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most.