School and Community Summer 2023

Empowering Education with AI: a Guide to AI Resources for the Classroom

BY CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT, ROLLA 31 W

hen you think of artificial intelligence, what comes to mind? Some might imagine a post-apocalyptic world created by the Skynet

for K-12 teachers who want to enhance their teaching and learning experiences. One of the main advantages of generative AI is that it can provide personalized and adaptive content for students. For example, generative AI can create customized questions, exercises, feedback or explanations based on the student’s level, interests, goals and preferences. This can help students learn at their own pace and style, and improving their motivation and engagement. Another benefit of generative AI is that it can enrich the curriculum and learning materials with diverse and creative content. For example, it can produce realistic images or videos to illustrate concepts, facts or phenomena. It can also generate stories, poems, songs or games to spark students’ imagination and creativity. Generative AI can help teachers create new content for their lessons or assignments, or remix existing content in new ways. This technology can foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills among students. For example, generative AI can challenge students to analyze, evaluate or critique the generated content. It can also encourage students to explore different perspectives, scenarios or possibilities. Generative AI can inspire students to design, create or improve AI-generated content.

AI. Others might think of the Enterprise’s computer in a more utopian future, as seen in Star Trek. No need to imagine a future context, however. If you use a modern cell phone, you have used AI for a few years. Artificial intelligence has recently become a trendy topic, especially in education. Thanks to companies like OpenAI, with their ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) tool and their picture creation tool DALL-E2, generative AI has become quite fashionable. What sets this generation apart from previous versions of AI technology is its ability to create novel content using example datasets to train the AI. Whether we like it or not, AI is here to stay and this current generation of generative AI is just the beginning of what this technology will become. It will only get better. Definition and Benefits Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of AI that can create new content such as images, text, music, or speech. It is based on learning from data and using it to generate novel and realistic outputs. Generative AI has many applications and benefits for education, especially

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