Like all other disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, or AI, is expected to change our lives forever. AI has already brought visible changes to so many sectors, and the education sector is no different. Perhaps the education sector is one of those sectors that is expected to change more than others because of the fundamental impact of AI on how students learn and how teachers teach. In this blog, we will explore how AI has changed the lives of students and what we should expect in the coming years.
How AI is Already Helping Students?
AI has already started bringing major changes in how students learn both in classrooms and outside of the classrooms. The central role of AI is to make our lives easy and improve the way we live. Similarly, AI is facilitating students by making learning more personalised so that an individual can benefit from the technology according to their own needs. For instance, AI can analyse the data about the student and help the teacher in making a tailored schedule according to the strengths and weaknesses of the student.
Another aspect of AI is the immediate feedback that students can get without the need to wait for their teachers. This feature of AI is also revolutionising and helping teachers because teachers can now focus on other important tasks and leave the routine or repetitive work for the AI. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of AI is the instant and immediate information that is now available to students. Earlier students had to do long research to find out a comprehensive answer, but now they can get complete answers by just giving one command to the AI. This new technology has definitely raised concerns about the rise in plagiarism or cheating cases among students, but the benefits of AI for students are far greater than these downsides.
How Dramatically Can AI Change Students Lives?
The speed at which AI has entered into our lives is mind-boggling. What is more intriguing is the improvement that is coming within this new technology. Due to these fast changes, experts are expecting more changes in the classrooms. Since AI is very efficient in tracking and observing patterns, it can quickly become personal assistants for the students and guide them according to their specific needs. Due to these strengths of the AI, it can quickly adapt in the classroom scenario. AI has already changed how students are interacting in study groups, and it will further enhance these trends in the future.
Experts say AI will revolutionise education and make it more effective, fast, and innovative. The ability of AI to personalise education will further improve in the future. AI’s core strength of providing data-driven solutions is further expected to improve; hence we can expect that it will continue to provide improvements in the education sector. Suppose there is a student who is weak in one subject and good in another; the AI is expected to help such students by providing them tailored solutions so that they could easily keep their pace of learning with their classmates.
Is AI Good or Bad for Students?
It is too early to predict the exact impact of AI on the education sector. It also depends on how the world adapts to it in the future. There are definitely privacy concerns because when AI deals with the sensitive data of students, it can certainly be misused in some cases. However, so far, AI has been instrumental in fostering critical thinking and independent learning. Looking at the speed at which this technology is growing, one can safely say that the role of AI is going to increase in the education sector on a big scale. Over the years, new technology and access to it have promoted education, such as online learning and other such things; therefore, we can expect that AI will also promote equitable access to education in the world. Overall, AI is expected to help students and make them better and faster learners.
Some people are raising concerns about the disruptive nature of AI and its possible negative impact on the education sector. Many of these concerns are based on facts, and we cannot deny them. However, we also know that whenever a new disruptive technology comes, it always raises fears and apprehensions in the public, but history tells us that as the time passes, we humans eventually adapt to it. AI is one of such turning points in the history of civilization. It has the potential to open the avenues for ground-breaking ideas, perhaps more than any other technology.
It makes sense why so many people are raising concerns about the exponential growth and adaptation of AI in our lives. Some say it will affect millions of jobs and make people unemployed. This is true, but at the same time it will also create new jobs, improve lives, and make our world a better place. Similarly, some say teachers and educators become unemployable due to robots. This is not true because AI will only help teachers in teaching and not make them redundant because students will always need emotional connection and guidance from teachers. It is true that the education sector all over the world is not ready for this disruption, but we can hope that gradually the situation will improve, and it will definitely bring a positive change.
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