There are risk with the use of AI in education, but it also has huge potential to improve teaching and learning
Bobby Kenny, principal of Scoil Mhuire, Rosslare, Co Wexford with fifth class pupils Kaishori Crosbie, Oliver Dyminski, Hollie Griffin and Jude Codd. Photograph: Mary Browne
“I also use it for budgeting, resource management and planning. Crucially, it can also be used to create individual lesson plans for children based on their interests, strengths and weaknesses,” he says.While the major advances in AI may have taken most of us by surprise, students and teachers from primary through to third-level have been using it for years. In most cases, it is as a learning tool or, for teachers, to help with lesson plans or correcting.
“Teachers need training, and the infrastructure needs to be kept up. There is a risk that schools become dependent on these technologies and, instead of parents having to buy new textbooks every year, schools or parents have to pay for licenses.” “Teachers can use analytics tools and student data to glean insights into how students are progressing.
Natalie Doyle, a post-primary teacher at Chanel College in Coolock, north Dublin, says the pay-off in using AI tools is huge if they master how to craft queries and instructions for the technology. “She has used it to generate statistics on areas that may interest her class – Formula One, for instance – and used this as a tool for teaching data analytics.
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