Applications and impact of Generative AI tools

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Generative AI is referred to generation of digital tools and techniques, that performs tasks (such as problem solving, decision making etc.) which requires human intelligence. In this competitive era, it has prevalent in IT world and eased the life of everyone. It is efficiently applicable in teaching learning process as well as it can make life of a teacher easy and productive. In this blog, I will be talking about my personal experience using these tools along with its positive and negative implications and future of AI in our lives.

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I have been using certain artificial intelligence tools since years in my professional and personal life. Back in my home country, I was a Zoology Teacher, and I was supposed to teach biology practically as well to make students familiar with anatomy and physiology of the all the animals. I vividly remember, there were certain animals which were not available physically due to their demographic distribution conditions. To expose their anatomy and physiology, I used to practice dissection on VictoryXR. Secondly, I have been using Magic School AI from years, which, I believe, eases the life of an educator with its features, such as Rubric generator, image generator, multiple choice quizzes, report card commenter and many more. ChatGPT is nowadays most usually used AI tools by professionals and students. Turnitin is also the one, I am encountered frequently these days to detect plagiarism. Microsoft Copilot is AI launched by Microsoft.

It is advantageous approach as it has made teaching possible remotely. It has eradicated the scope of human error. Huge data can be generated, analysed and handled using AI. It can be applied in every sector, such as Software, business, medical etc. As a teacher, it gives instant grading and quick feedback for the improvement of student learning. Microphone feature of Microsoft word helps to convert speech to text and vice-versa. It has made it possible to show any virtual resource for teaching and learning. At the end, I would agree with the statement that, AI make learning memorable and effective.

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On the other hand, it has certain flaws. First of all, privacy is major concern while using AI tools, as to access use of it, it always asks for students’ personal details and selling that information in the market. Another impact of it, using AI tools for learning results in failure in development of human empathy and emotional connection between tutor and learner. Overuse of these techniques make people over rely on them. As a consequent, people fail to develop creativity, social interaction and emotional intelligence in them. Furthermore, digital divide is a barrier on the way of using AI. It has turned education into business.

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Undoubtedly, innovation in AI can be applied in every possible industry in future and it is going to be uncertain. By the next decade, its advanced version can be seen in medical and business. It ca be expected teachers could be replaced by robots or AI products in coming years. Robots can be imposed in many other industries too. For instance, health sector.

For this article, I have been through What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? | IBM

For impact of AI, I have been through Advantages and disadvantages of AI in education | University Canada West (UCW)

I have also watched https://youtu.be/ad79nYk2keg?si=WtMJkkrUtX1hKkT1

My final learning journey for EC&I 833: Foundations of Educational Technology

Kindly follow the link: https://youtu.be/TbTb7E7Vgtk for summary of my learning journey for the course: Foundation of EdTech.

In above video, I have tried capturing what I have learnt over last few months. I would like to share my personal preferred digital tools I have been using from years and now:

1. Zoom
2. Kahoot
3. Google Forms
4. Canva
5. Mentimeter
6. Quizalize

These tools or techniques are widely used in Education sector and nowadays accepted universally to teach or give appropriate feedback to learners. Hence, we can say these digital products have made education or learning easy and impactful. it has reduced Digital divide and enhanced Digital Literacy.

At the last, I would like to share incorporation of my editing skills used to capture this video using VN App.

I hope you enjoyed the video and blog.

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Coding or Computer programming is, a key concept in computer science, the languages used to give command or instructions to the computer. For instance, Java, C ++, SQL etc. In this technological era, it is cosmopolitan concept which is used in every commercial sector. People, after gaining proficiency on IT skills, pursue it as career or profession to earn their bread and butter. It is one of the highest paid professions these days. Experts in coding can adapt professions like Software developers, Engineers, Website designers etc. Nowadays, teaching of coding has been prevalent for students at educational institutes to fit in this digital era.

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I believe, if students learn Coding skills, they will be gaining expertise in this and get into certain professions successfully, such as Engineering and software designing. Thus, they can be successful professionals. They can be at higher positions in multinational companies and other related industries. Secondly, they can also start up their own business and get into entrepreneurship by designing websites, apps and games. Additionally, there is a fact that proficient coders construct logical thinking and problem-solving skills. Moreover, it also makes students creative and enhances creativity in them.

As per opinion, coding is used in every sector and if learnt by everyone, may draw benefit out of it. Programming is a concept, that is quite difficult to understand until it is practiced. Hence, it demands a large amount of practice. It benefits those learners who are IT literate and practiced a lot on coding. To do well in coding, one must have professional degree in it. However, students, who are not from IT background, can not gain proficiency in it and can not practice on it. Consequently, they will lack in computational skills and can not do well in it. Another downside of this is, it needs computer devices and internet connection, so one’s lacking these resources can not learn these programming skills.

If I talk about my personal experience with coding, unfortunately, I find it pretty much hard to learn. In terms of computer knowledge, I find myself at beginner’s level or basic programmer. Initially, I am from medical background and had not to learn coding ever and could not practiced much. I perceive, Coding or programming is not my cup of tea. But, to cope up with my recent curriculum, I have started looking into coding tutorials, so that I could also inculcate these skills into my students.

I have always been Science teacher and engaged myself, throughout my professional journey, with science teaching only. I have started learning coding skills from coding tutorials as learning computer languages is need of hour.

I agree with the notion that coding can be taught by experts who have certification for that because it a technical field which requires practice and certification too. Tech savvy person gains expertise in programming pedagogy and will be able to teach it to students. It is hard to teach these skills to undergraduate students until you have proficiency in computational skills which is only possible by practicing on it.

For this blog, I have been through, Teaching-programming-in-schools-pedagogy-review-Raspberry-Pi-Foundation.pdf

I have also read, An Overview of STEM, Robotics, Coding, and Maker Spaces

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Here, I would like to take privilege to pay gratitude to today’s presenters for a well descriptive talk on Assistive Technologies, which is use of any device, equipment or product system to assist or enhance functional capabilities of learners with special needs or disability. It develops equity among diverse learners in education system. It has developed over the years and eased not only people with disability but also people the normal civilians. It is prevalent nowadays in general, professional and academic sectors with variety of its applications. I have been using some of these assistive technological product systems unknowingly that its piece of any assistive technology. In this blog, I will share my experience with those technological products along with its uses, challenges and drawbacks.

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• Dark mode features of mobile phone are the assistance I have been using from last couple of years without knowing the fact that it a kind of assistive technology that help people with visual impairment such as colour blindness. It is the feature common in mobile phones and tablets, which uses light coloured texts or icons against dark background. Night mode on mobile phones also performs the similar function for some people with visual disability. I personally prefers this because of its soothing effect on my eyes while using my mobile phone or tablet for doing my academic work, as a result I could be on screen for more than usual time. It turns out to be more productive academically. However, this feature can be discomfort while using in brightly lit conditions. Sometimes, it may also cause depressing and mourning impact on the readers.

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• Closed captions or subtitles: I have witnessed multiple times while watching any informative YouTube video along with subtitles or captions on the screen, to assist learners or people who are deaf or hard of hearing or people who are non-native. People who can not hear, can consider it as blessing technology. I have experienced that YouTube app has got a feature which need to be enabled to turn on captions or subtitles and help people with disability to understand the content of the videos. This technology is applicable for video content only. Unfortunately, not all videos may have subtitles. Secondly, someone need to be quick at reading captions.

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• Speech to text software: Google Dictation in practiced by me often to help me in writing large texts easily. It converts spoken words into text. Basically, it is a piece of technology designed to assist people with motor impairments, learning or writing disabilities. Accent of speaker, background noises or rapid or quick speech can be drawback that may lead the software to cause error. As a consequence, errors can be made while typing the text.
• Text to speech software: While exploring features on my laptop, I came across this feature, that reads the text aloud and can ease the life on a common civilian and the people with learning disabilities like, Dyslexia or ADHD. It eases the life of learner by not putting much emphasize on our eyes. But it can be heard to use sometimes as the voice quality, using AI tools, can be distracting of hard to understand. It may also cause confusion among learners because of pronunciation errors.

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• Visual Aids: It is a kind of assistive tool that can help people with visual impairment or blindness. I have read a lot about Braille system, which was developed to help people who could not see. It was most popularly and widely accepted technique to help people with disability. It was the part of foundation period assistive technology. They could read without their eyes, using their tactile ability of their hands. It has a downside as prior learning of braille system is required to read the text. Another important tool was screen reader, that could read the screen text aloud for learners with visual disability.
• Hearing Aids: This technology if used by people with hearing impairments, that helps people to converse or engage with others effectively. These tools magnify the noises or sound for disabled people. These tools help people to hear or gather information from the surrounding and help in their interaction with their fellows.
• Mobility Aids: Which help people with physical disability, such as wheelchair. People with disability use those items to commute from one place to another. it induces better mobility among people with physical impairment. It can be disadvantaged as lack of service facilities can be barrier on its way.

High cost of these tools or products can be a major issue among its users as it needs a large amount of money to get or maintain these products. Educational assistive tools can not be available at all the learning institutes. Lastly, Educators are not necessarily Assistive technology competent always. These are some general limitations to use Assistive technology for people with special needs.

In the summary, I would like to say that these Assistive technological tools are a kind of blessing for people with any kind of disability that eases the life of them and leads to equity among diverse learners, especially with disabilities. Although, it has certain drawbacks such as cost effectiveness, availability and lack of AT competency among educators.

For this blog, I have been through article What are the Key Benefits of Assistive Technology?

I have also read https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CASLS_REGINA/1b4umnc/cdi_proquest_journals_2401680619

I have also watched a YouTube video https://youtu.be/omjVM1lwkII?si=7HGtHCCXSEn5aLFo

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Firstly, I would like to thank today’s presenters for their elaborative talk on Digital assessment tools, which plays a crucial role in effective teaching learning process. The late educator Joe Bower has emphasized a lot on assessment tools for an overall development of a learner. Assessment used to be a kind of series of scores rather than a communication with learners which has changed with the involvement of technology in education system. Advent of technology, started implementing around 1970 and progressed later, has both positive and negative impact on every aspect of life and educational assessment of the students is no exception. Use of these digital assessment tools have become prevalent in this technological era. Here in this blog, as an educator, I will be talking about practices that need to be considered while choosing these tools to ensure high levels of student learning and thinking along with its potential impact on culture and society.

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First and foremost, drawback of using Digital assessment (DA) tools is compilation of files which can be eradicated by managing all examination data in one software solution. Secondly, practice tests should be created for students in scheduled online testing platform so that students may be made familiar with these tools in advance as a result they can perform well on the same platform while their final exams. Thirdly, cost is another barrier on student’s part. Hence an educator must take care of the pattern of online testing centre so that it may not put financial burden on the students. Additionally, use of digital tools can be harmful such as distracting learners. Without an adult supervision it can be threat to society and democracy. To avoid this, learners should be taught thorough use of technology for effective learning.

Furthermore, any digital assessment tool should be checked on regular basis for its improvement or modification as per needs of the learners. Another important factor needs to be addressed that it should be equally accessible by every learner and may not put any hurdle on way to education for students, in other words, use of these tools should remove digital divide, as mentioned by Latoya during her presentation that it is a major concern for online learning tools. Adding further, online testing solution should give detailed feedback of student’s exams, like along with feedback of test results it should also emphasize on analysis of psychometric performance such as time spent on answering the question. Apart from this, online assessment tools should conduct exams with remote proctoring which means certain conditions need to be fulfilled by students to attempt the examination and it should not be dynamic. Besides this, computer-based assessment can impact the protection and privacy of exam questions. To ensure longevity of exam questions certain tools need to be introduced by teacher and administration. I personally prefer, before applying any digital assessment tool for my class, to verify that tool for my students so that it may not lead to any vague outcome for my course.

In the conclusion part, I would add on that these are certain major factors which should be kept in notice by an educator before applying for my classroom examination routines to remove the flaws from it and make assessment more impactful and productive. It helps to give logics and reasoning to students for their overall development of them.

I have gone through an article: 10 Facts About Online Assessment Tools | TestReach Blog

I have also read article: Technology in education – 2023 GEM Report

I have also looked for: Dr Erik Voss – The supporting role of technology in learning-oriented assessment

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I am grateful to presenters for today’s talk because they unfolded a new mystery for me as I was completely unfamiliar with the terms Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 and I never knew these terms before. As discussion proceeded, I got familiar with these things. And I was also introduced with the implications of Web 3.0, if initiated, during this class session. With the gathered information, I am much excited to write a blog on impact of introduction of Web 3.0 on education.

“The web influences people’s way of thinking, doing and being, and people influence the development and content of the web.  The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used as a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement from Education 1.0 toward that of Education 3.0.  The Web, Internet, Social Media, and the evolving, emerging technologies have created a perfect storm or convergence of resources, tools, open and free information access.” (Jackie Gerstein)

I believe, undoubtedly, technology or internet is progressing at fast pace and addition of features is made possible in upcoming years. Internet Web 1.0 transformed to Web 2.0 and now at the verge of Web 3.0 which transformed the education from 1.0 to 3.0. New technological tools generated with the help of Web 2.0 added new web tools in classrooms for teaching and learning. As an educator, I prefer selecting these digital tools to make teaching more effective and dynamic.

Gerstein metaphor: Transformation of Education

The evolution of internet from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now Web 3.0 has made a huge impact in transformation of education from Education 1.0 to education 3.0, ultimately that has helped in understanding the shifting of nature of teaching and learning. Gerstein metaphor helps in following changing landscape of education. It has constructed education landscape in a positive way as it has shifted teaching learning towards student centric wholly.

Evolution of Learning:

Education 1.0 was uni-directional, in which students were at receiver’s end and instructivism approach having very sources like teachers, libraries, classnotes, handouts and World Wide Web in latest were used. This shifted towards, Education 2.0 in late 2000, in which teaching was interactive, focused on constructivist approach, developed with the emergence of social-media, Wikipedia and blogging.  It involves more participation and content sharing. Updated most Education 3.0 in which social networking and social benefits play significant role in teaching and learning. Connectivist approach is practiced.

Implementation of Web 3.0 will be advantageous as it will help to eradicate digital divide from our society as it will make digital resources readily available to large proportion of populace. Additionally, it will make wholly student centric learning and more effective.

Although it has many more advantages of shifting towards Web 3.0, such as bringing equity in education and eradicate digital divide, yet it will not be able to benefit certain group of people, known as disadvantaged group while the other is called advantaged group. It helped to raise certain Social movements, such as Black life matters.

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known as advantaged group, who:

• Are tech savvy or digitally literate.
• Have access to technology (technological devices, internet access).
• Are self motivated.
• Are focused.
• Have time management skills.
• Are adaptable and flexible.

Disadvantaged or Left out Group: It is not going to accommodate disadvantaged

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group, who:

• Digitally illiterate.
• Lack reliable internet access and digital devices.
• Are distracted.
• Are not good at time management.
• Are rigid or stick to traditional methods.

For this blog, I have been through an article Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

I have also watched https://youtu.be/7R6oAzie4Lc?si=Sq25OdUkNyuA-aRP

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In this technological era, education system has been modified or shaped by the availability or accessibility of digital learning tools such as Zoom, YouTube, Google Classroom etc. These tools have made teaching and learning possible remotely. Learning by means of digital tools is called online or distance learning. Online learning has become universally accepted format, which has almost transformed the education system and our society.

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As an educator, while choosing any digital tool to be used for my teaching, I keep certain factors in consideration which are as following. First and foremost, these should be easy to use, free from any complicated format of its functioning. Second quality of digital tools, it should be accessible (budget friendly) to everyone so that there should not be any inequity in delivering the content. Every student from any financial background must have access to that tool. There shouldn’t be any subscription charges on its utilization. Thirdly, it should be interactive platform for all the participants. It must enable the students to stay engaged in class activities by providing some features like quizzes and polls. Additionally, it should enable the students learn collaboratively by sharing documents and computer screens to make teaching effective and fruitful. Another preference should be those tools that can track student progress and help me in designing instructions accordingly. Furthermore, integration of videos, animations and audios should be on one suitable digital platform for delivering the content. Apart from this, it should be able to accommodate multiple participants or students simultaneously. Last but not the least, it should be updated timely to add new features in it to make it popular learning tool. Artificial Intelligence detector should be inbuilt or attachable to detect copied material. I personally prefer above said qualities in any digital tool to fit in my teaching tools. For instance, Zoom and Google Classroom (Video conferencing tools) are my personal favourite platforms, which enables me sharing my screen with multiple participants to work collaboratively and engage them in online activities.

I prefer Class engagement and interaction using Video conferencing tools (Zoom, Google Classroom) which helps me interact with the students through polls, chats, breakout rooms (Kahoot, Quizlet). As per my favouritism, needs and qualified tools, my inclination is towards digital tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Kahoot, YouTube, Quizlet, Canvas, Moodle and many more. My requirements are fulfilled using these tools and practices. Using these tools, my life, as an educator, has become easy and significant as has helped me to deliver study material more effectively and productively. Teaching has become impactful because of applications of these tools. I have successfully reached to the students sitting miles apart from me. Using video conferencing tools, during Corona Pandemic, teachings and lessons were delivered successfully. Only these tools had made studies possible during pandemic.

In the last, I would say everybody should be digital literate in this technological era. Despite certain limitations, IT tools has made teaching impactful and productive.

From this Blog post, I have been through Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

I have also watched https://youtu.be/DJnqZgHFV40?si=Blqe0Em90WpLfLLG

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I am so glad, that I had been through such an informative presentation on Productivity suites and role of Presentation tools in our today’s online session, presented by Ayushi Rana, Gagan deep Kaur and Mohammad Aatif and I would like to thank them. I would also reflect on my learning through this presentation in this blog post. The concept and utilization of Productivity suites started with emergence of computers in between 1970 to 1980. Initially emerged productive suites included software like WordStar and WordPerfect, used to create, edit and format the documents. With the advent of educational technology, new productivity suites developed like, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based Productivity suites, Prezi, digital notes etc.

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Nowadays, these digital tools or productivity suites are universally applicable, in every sector and education is not an exemption. Microsoft was updated by induction of Office 365 in late 2011. Cloud-based Productivity gained popularity as Google Workspace and Office 365. Later to this mobile productivity suites were allowed for mobile devices in form of Microsoft Office Mobile and Google Docs. Thus, these Productive suites were made accessible through mobile devices. Most of the productivity suites are dependent on internet connectivity. These tools are way more beneficial for learning as they made education easy, impactful and remote. It has made it easy for teachers to deliver their content and keeping records of their students. Learning is also made interesting using productivity suites. Furthermore, remote learning or online learning is made possible through productivity suites only. It was evident from application of these tools during Corona Pandemic that how important these tools are for us. Group presentation, as experienced while our previous session, was carried on successfully using Prezi, an IT tool. Collaboration features are integrated into productivity suites for team work. Other component of digital tool also provides Artificial Intelligence to grab knowledge and information about various topics and for detecting Plagiarism.

But there are some limitations of it such as, it demands user to be technology savvy and proficient on it as not everyone is good at it. Additionally, sometimes it costs a lot of money to access some online source or for internet connection. Apart form this, internet connection can not be made available in some areas, hence these can not be applied to those underdeveloped areas. While accessing these sources, learning has to suffer sometimes, due to distractions caused by internet tools.

It is clear from above said reading that these resources have become an integral part of education system, applied in administration sector, teaching and demonstration and there is still ongoing evolvement in these services. In near future, we can expect more possibilities. We can expect much more from AI and machine learning to shape future generation productivity suites. AI can take up role of instructors, serving as virtual assistant and freeing some liabilities of teachers.

This lecture ended up by streamlining and choosing right productivity suites. In the end, I would like to say these software has made remarkable influence in education system and made teaching learning process easy and effective. Although, IT tools are used at full swings, yet there is a lot more scope and need in its advancement.

I have been through Revolutionary Software: Milestones in the Development of Productivity Suites | History of Computers

I have also watched https://youtu.be/xbdCT_tiq5M?si=Fg7FacAOD02x4cro

Photo by MJ555 on Pixabay

Implications of Constructivism in my Professional Journey

In our recent class, we had learnt about concept and theories of knowledge and learning. The skills or things acquired by a person through his/her experiences or education is called knowledge, whereas improvement in the acquired skills or knowledge taken place because of interaction of learner with its environment is called Learning. In this session we also discussed about three major theories of knowledge and learning which are as following:

• Behaviourism
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism

All these theories explain the mode of learning and factors which influences it. It also justifies the role of memory in learning and how learning is transferred from teacher to learner.

I, always, believe in Constructivism theory of knowledge and learning, which states that knowledge is actively constructed by the students for themselves. It was drawn out of Cognitivism. According to Vygotsky-Cultural-historical theory, cognitive development or construction of knowledge requires social interaction or past experiences of the students. Constructivist theory puts more emphasis on social interaction among people and its can easily be implicated by giving group work opportunities.

In my professional journey, I preferred teaching students by constructivist approach in which I always gave them chance to work in teams so that social interaction may be encouraged. I perceive, a group of people with common interests and goals, share their experiences and enhance their knowledge. Group presentations and project-based learnings induces more social engagement and results in improvement in any skill.

Nowadays, I encourage students to reflect their own learning processes so that they may be more independent learners and will be self reliable learners. That is how I keep adapting to new strategies and techniques in my classroom for the betterment of my students and maintain dynamic nature of teaching and learning.

For this blog post, I have been though  Constructivism – Teaching in a Digital Age (opentextbc.ca)

I have also read The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching

I have watched for Implication of Constructivism Constructivism in Education (youtube.com)

Photo by milaoktasafitri on Pixabay

Educational technology: Invent and advancement of Technology has made everything doable and possible and this is universally applicable platform, which play significant role in every sector. Education and teaching is not an exception.

Means of teaching changed over the years. Initially, it started with oral communication which was replaced by number of other consecutive means over time. Its has taken a huge leap from oral communication to the webinars, using high speed internet, computers, projectors etc. Over head projectors has made it easy for learners to understand the concepts and teachings as visual effects make learning more impactful and effective. Though it has made education easy and accessible easily, still mode of delivery of education is oral means only.

Educational technology simply means application of technology and wisdom in the field of Education. Modern technological medium includes cables, internet etc. has eased in teaching industry.

Oral communication used to be oldest mode of education that was taken over by written communication with the invention of writing. Writing has a long history from traditional to printing press. Internet based learning was induced by development of internet and cables. Transmitters brought new revolution in this field that ultimately spread education all over the world using broadcasting and video conferencing. Computer based learning and computer networking is nowadays prevailing in universe.

For this week, I have gone through Tony Bates’s A short history of Educational Technology

I have also read Neil Postman’s article on Educational Changes

How to Use Education Technology (youtube.com)