The Potential of Using Artificial Intelligence in Education To Enhance Learning

The potential of using artificial intelligence in education to enhance
learning, assist teachers and fuel more effective individualized

learning is exciting, but also a bit daunting. We will discuss both
aspects.
Benefits:
1. “AI is not a threat to teachers; it is not there to replace

teachers, but rather to deliver a better education to
children.” AI tools could cut teacher workload by providing
teachers with a virtual ‘assistant’.
From drafting curriculum plans to producing high-quality teaching

resources, AI has the potential to reduce the amount of time teachers
spend doing administrative tasks, so they can focus on what they do
best– teaching and supporting their students.
2. Grading: Sure, AI can help grade exams using an answer key; but it can also
“compile data about how students performed and even grade more abstract
assessments such as essays.”
3. Feedback on course quality: For example, if many students are answering a

question incorrectly, “AI can zero in on the specific information or concepts that
students are missing, so educators can deliver targeted improvements in
materials and methods.”
4. Meaningful and immediate feedback to students: Some students may be shy

about taking risks or receiving critical feedback in the classroom, but “with AI,
students can feel comfortable to make the mistakes necessary for learning and
receive the feedback they need for improvement.”
5. Personalized Learning Not every student adapts to

knowledge the same way. Some grasp quickly, whereas some need
time. The traditional learning system lacked the concept of customized
learning for every unique student. This is where AI in online education
comes to the rescue.
6. Study materials in digital format that you can
carry on
7. Adaptable Access Features like multilingual support help
translate information into various languages, making it convenient for
every native to teach and learn. AI also plays a vital role in teaching
visually or hearing-impaired audiences. AI-powered converter tools
like Presentation Translator provide real-time subtitles for virtual
lectures.
Houman Harouni, a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate

School of Education and a former elementary and high school teacher offers
us advice:
1) Stop pretending that it doesn’t exist
Educators must “help the next generation face the reality of the world and
develop instruments and ways of navigating this reality with integrity,” he says.
Students are well aware that technologies such as ChatGPT exist and are
already experimenting with them on their own, but they need guidance about
how to use them responsibly.
2) Use AI alongside your students
Engage with generative AI tools with your students in person, when possible.
Otherwise, share AI-generated responses to questions during class time and
ask students to consider them or have students experiment with the
technology at home, document their experiences, and share them with the
class.
3) Teach students how to ask the ChatGPT tool questions (so they can use it in
their favor)
“The educator’s job is to understand what opportunities are left open

beside the technology,” Harouni says.
4) Teach students to do what artificial intelligence cannot do. For

example, unlike robots, we can ask ourselves questions and that is what
students need to be trained in: to know how to ask questions and to learn how
to critique their own questions, frameworks, and the answers generated by AI,
he says.
Students can start with topics and questions that they are interested in and
ask ChatGPT for answers, he suggests. The knack is then getting them
excited about asking follow-up questions. Harouni uses a personal experience
with his 10-year-old stepdaughter and his newborn baby to illustrate his point.
When his stepdaughter asked him why he kept telling her to be careful with
the baby, Harouni turned to ChatGPT to help her to get to the bottom of her
question.
“My creativity as the teacher or the parent at that moment is to say, ‘What is it
that you're really trying to ask? What is it that you really want to know?’”
While ChatGPT churned out a “whole bunch of answers about the fragility of
the baby,” with some patience, Harouni helped his stepdaughter discover the
question that she truly wanted to ask which was what she could safely do with
the new baby. “At the moment that the exploration [with AI] ends with the
answer, you know that your work as a teacher begins,” he explains.
4) Use generative AI tools to spark the imagination
One frequent concern about generative artificial intelligence is that students

will use it to cheat and avoid the hard work of thinking for themselves, but
Harouni says that tools like ChatGPT should really challenge teachers and
professors to reassess the assignments they give their students.
“You have to stop thinking that you can teach exactly the way you used to
teach when the basic medium has changed,” he explains. If students can turn
to ChatGPT or other AI language models for quick and easy answers then
there is a problem with the lesson, Harouni believes.
“We have to create assignments that push [students] to the point where they
have to question what is the framework that is being used here and what
would it mean for me to radically change this framework,” he says.

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The potential of using artificial intelligence in education to enhance

learning, assist teachers and fuel more effective individualized

1. “AI is not a threat to teachers; it is not there to replace

From drafting curriculum plans to producing high-quality teaching

3. Feedback on course quality: For example, if many students are answering a

4. Meaningful and immediate feedback to students: Some students may be shy

5. Personalized Learning Not every student adapts to

Houman Harouni, a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate

1) Stop pretending that it doesn’t exist

2) Use AI alongside your students

“The educator’s job is to understand what opportunities are left open

4) Teach students to do what artificial intelligence cannot do. For

4) Use generative AI tools to spark the imagination

One frequent concern about generative artificial intelligence is that students

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