Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Education How tools like Chat GPT are changing the landscape and how you can take advantage Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various aspects of our lives, and one area where its influence is becoming increasingly apparent is public education. Chat GPT, an advanced AI language model, holds immense potential to shape the future of education by offering new opportunities for students, teachers, and administrators. In this article, we will explore the transformative impact of AI on public schools and how it can enhance teaching and learning experiences.
Chat GPT wrote that entire first paragraph.
Teachers work about 50 hours a week, spending less than half the time in direct interaction with students.
By now, you’ve recognized the power, and concern of AI tools, like Chat GPT, in education. While it’s crucial to ensure students are not turning in work written by a BOT, it’s just as crucial to recognize how technology is changing the teaching and learning landscape, and use that change to your advantage. While AI in education is continuing to change, the research already completed shows the best use of AI is when humans are at the center of the technology following these sample concepts for usage: 1) AI assists to reduce routine teaching burdens, 2) AI that helps teachers reflect, plan, support 3) AI helps improve the teaching and learning practice. Among the goals of integrating more AI into education is to ensure that teacher working hours are spent mostly with their students. Currently, according to a recent global teacher and student survey, more time is spent without students than with them, with some saying AI could help flip the script. 6
Maine Educator | Fall 2023
A report by McKinsey Global Teacher and Student Survey first suggested that AI’s initial benefit could be to improve teaching jobs by reducing low-level burdens in administrative or clerical work. The report also suggests that recovered time from AI-enabled technology should be rededicated toward more effective instruction—particularly, outcomes such as reducing the average 11 hours of weekly preparation down to only six.
“One opportunity I see with AI is being able to reduce the amount of attention I have to give to administrative things and increase the amount of attention I can give to my students with their learning needs in the classroom. So that's the one that I'd say that I'm super excited about the possibility of AI to support me as a teacher."-Vidula Plante, teacher.
