Week 2 – MBA 6601 – AI in Education

 

(OpenAI, 2024).

In Todd Kelsey’s book, Surfing the Tsunami, he talks about how sooner or later AI will impact our career and daily life (p. 52). I believe that Education could use artificial intelligence to assist current teachers in their work, such as creating exams, assignments, or lesson plans for next year's class. Teachers and schools can also offer AI to students to assist with questions they have about a topic. However, there are some pros and cons to this. The creators of AI can be biased and provide biased information or wrong information (Walden University, n.d.). The misinformation and biased information can be avoided by the teacher double-checking the student's work or the AI answers. Education can set up a system for a teacher to make sure that misinformation is not being used or schools should have their AI system where they can make sure that the AI has accurate information that can be accessed.

Although the cons are worrisome, there are benefits to using AI in our Education system. AI can be used to give students experiential learning, be used as a translator between teachers and non-English speaking students analyze students’ performance, and indicate to teachers which students need more support (Walden University, n.d.). The schools I attended when growing up had teachers who were able to speak Spanish and teach every subject in Spanish. However, there are some cities/towns that do not have the luxury of having Spanish-speaking teachers and struggle to teach Spanish-speaking students. With AI, teachers can communicate with Spanish-speaking students and provide them with the same lessons and assignments to them. This allowed every student to receive the same lesson plans and learn at the same rate. At the university level, AI can transform lesson plans and provide more real-world scenarios that can make students more proficient in their field of study.

As AI advances and improves over the years, it will eventually be used by every company to conduct business and in schools to teach students. For example, universities can use AI to analyze available data on current problems that are seen in specific fields. Engineering classes can use AI to create current real-world problems and it will allow students to use the lessons they learn and apply them to solve the issues. This will prepare students for situations they will face in their careers. A survey was conducted by Forbes, asking 500 teachers how AI influences students’ learning process and what are their biggest concerns with AI. 55 percent of teachers stated AI improved educational outcomes, but 65 percent of teachers are worried about plagiarism in student’s work (Hamilton, 2024). As AI continues to grow, students will be required to learn how to use AI to properly gather information and be taught how to use AI ethically.

Reference:

Hamilton, I. (2024, March 6). Artificial Intelligence in Education: Teachers’ opinions on AI in the classroom. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/it-and-tech/artificial-intelligence-in-school/

Kelsey, T. (2018). Surfing the tsunami. Todd Kelsey.

Walden University. (n.d.). 5 pros and cons of AI in the education sector. https://www.waldenu.edu/programs/education/resource/five-pros-and-cons-of-ai-in-the-education-sector 

OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (May 19, 2024). Retrieved from https://www.openai.com

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