Educators Attempt to Woo AI into Becoming Their Ideal Classroom Assistant!

“Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them”

“In a stuffy room in Rio De Janeiro, 12th-graders listen as substitute teacher Adriano Exaltação explains how genes pass from one generation to the next in fruit flies. That’s the topic of the day in the genetics class he teaches.”

Progressive or dystopian, you be the judge, but there’s no denying the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern classrooms from New York to Rio De Janeiro. Adriano Exaltação, the substitute biology teacher weeded through a virtual garden of digital learning tools before planting himself a firm favorite – an AI system that promises not just to help him teach, but also to learn itself.

Juxtaposed with the traditional chalk and talk strategy, students now sit around tablets and laptops, guided by AI platforms. The promise? A blossoming custom learning experience, tailored to each student’s knowledge base. And in this garden of ed-tech delights, the teacher is more gardener than pedagogue, watching over each sprout as they chart their own growth paths.

Mr. Adraino’s tool of choice, the AI system, are quite the ‘show offs’ – throwing up personalized lesson plans, assessing student’s progress, and even holding virtual office hours. No need for human intervention, it seems. Now, isn’t that just splendid?

As our dear enthusiastic Mr. Adriano asserts, he sees his role as merely “providing instructions and checking for basic understanding”, while the bulk of actual teaching is done by code fueled algorithms. But hey, should we feel unsettled by that? Or should we just sit back and marvel at this high-tech facelift education seems to be undergoing?

There’s no problem with making life easier for hard-working teachers…unless of course, we forget the true essence of teaching. The human touch. The empathy, the understanding, the adaptability. Ah well, guess it’s hard to code those.

Yet, it’s important to address that this AI-driven system is not without its merits. It offers a more personalized learning approach, helps identify gaps in student learning, and possibly reduces the workload for teachers. But will it take over the real essence of the chalkboard in the classroom? Well, let’s just hold our verdict on that until we experience more outcomes.

Fascinating, isn’t it? A world where teachers while sipping coffee, can monitor student progress, predict their performances, and chart their future success rates. All thanks to our silicon-fueled new age assistant ‘AI’. Though at the same time, a faint question lingers, are we just crossing over into a new era of education or overlooking a potential tech-induced catastrophe? Stay tuned, it seems.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-using-ai-schools/