Generative AI Won’t Replace Teachers, But Teachers Must Learn How To Leverage It To Grow. The impact of AI and ChatGPT in education is a hot topic, but we need to find a middle ground between fear and hype. AI should be seen as a tool that enhances rather than replaces educators in the learning process.
There have been so many articles and blog posts written in 2023 about the impact of AI and ChatGPT in education that it feels almost frivolous to write another one…but the fear of AI taking over Somewhere between fanning and overly optimistic predictions that AI will fundamentally do so. In trying to transform education, we are missing the middle ground. There are many opportunities to leverage these innovative tools to benefit both educators and students. The question I keep getting asked at Instructural webinars and panel discussions is simple. How can teachers overcome the fear and hype about AI and empower them to deliver real results?
What is Generative AI?
With so much terminology flying around as part of this discussion, it might be helpful to start with some basic definitions. Open AI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in 2015. Chat GPT is a generative artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022.
Generation AI is a type of artificial intelligence technology that can generate different types of content such as text, images, and audio. Large Language Model (LLM) is a type of generative AI used to generate new combinations of text in the form of natural-sounding language. The technology was first introduced in chatbots in the 1960s, but the simplicity of new user interfaces (ChatGPT being the most widely discussed) that allowed the creation of high-quality text, graphics, and video in seconds has led to a wide variety of applications. Tools have only recently become available. daily users.
But it’s important to recognize that, while ChatGPT is currently the best-known generative AI tool, it’s not the only one. OpenAI is an open-source tool that provides a set of AI services such as GPT-3 language models to developers and enterprises through the OpenAI GPT-3 Playground and OpenAI API. This means a rapidly expanding world of websites and tools that leverage the same artificial intelligence engine to create content. And in the first half of 2023, major companies such as Microsoft have already launched the AI search engine “Bing Chat AI”, and Google has launched its own AI “Google Bard”.
Identifying content generated by AI
Compounding the problem are concerns about the trustworthiness of academic integrity software to accurately identify AI-generated content. We’ve already seen headlines about students claiming they’ve been wrongfully accused of cheating, but we can’t refute or support these cases because we don’t have the source context to point to, as we do in the case of plagiarism. It Is difficult. And the astounding pace of his AI evolution in recent months has only intensified the anti-cheat arms race.
In other words, a Pandora’s box has been opened so that educators can stop pretending they can’t use these tools in their classrooms and use AI tools for their own benefit and that of their students. The time has come to focus on helping train educators. While it is important for schools at all levels to establish guidelines, ethical boundaries, rules and policies, it is imperative to invest quickly in training more teachers. In the UK, faculty quality (88%) and engaging content (86%) are the most influential factors driving student success, according to Infrastructure’s State of Higher Education survey.
A focus on educator professional development in the use of generative AI tools saves educators time by letting AI perform mundane and time-consuming tasks, and empowers students with tools that support their learning efforts. We can support you.
Generative AI tools have the potential to transform education in several ways.
individual learning: Generative AI tools empower educators in large classes by providing students with interactive and personalized learning experiences that allow them to better understand and retain information based on what the AI has learned about them. It helps you scale your efforts.
intelligent tutoring: Generative AI tools act as intelligent tutors, providing feedback and support as students work through problems and concepts, again amplifying educator efforts and directly supporting students in moments of need.
content generation: Educators can use generative AI tools to tackle some of the more time-consuming aspects of content generation, such as lesson planning and answering multiple-choice quizzes, saving educators time and making more You can provide your students with engaging and interactive content.
Ensuring ethical practice
Of course, all existing ethical considerations of privacy, security, and accessibility must be addressed, as well as intellectual property considerations for students and educators. Leveraging these tools by developing properly firewalled AI tools using APIs or LTI apps should support this, but I’m concerned about dropping information on public AI on vendor websites. may occur. And this is another area where educator professional development is essential in the very near future. The more teachers trained in the capabilities and potential risks of these tools, the more likely they are to use them in creative and compelling ways while avoiding potential pitfalls.
AI is evolving rapidly and it is difficult to say for certain what the future holds, but I believe that educators are at the heart of learning and that AI tools are not meant to replace humans, but to extend the learning experience of students. We strongly believe that it has a role to play in personalizing Some of the results we get from AI are amazing, but it’s important to remember that humans need to create the prompts and train the AI to get those results. Generative AI should not be seen as a replacement for educators, but as a tool to extend and support our learning experience, much like calculators and the Internet.
Ryan Lufkin, Vice President of Global Strategy, Infrastructure
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