Role of AI Tools in Future Education

The AI tool I chose to try out is called Meta AI which I had used through my Facebook account. When I first opened it I told it to make an image of food and it came up with 4 pictures that were so insanely detailed.  I had seen people use Meta AI all over Tik Tok for a while and I thought it was so cool, lots of people would tell it to make an image of something and progressively make it more and more advanced. After playing around with it for a bit I had brainstormed a few ways in how it could be helpful to enhance teaching as well as engage students in their learning:

 

• Assist in creating/ designing lesson plans
• Can be helpful for student’s with disabilities- translates lessons and helps make more accessible
• Can enhance educational games and learning experience’s to motivate students
• Also would analyze individual learning patterns and customize to suit each students needs for learning.

 

This tool would be very beneficial with creativity as it makes such detailed pictures of pretty much anything you could possibly think of, even the most random of images that you would not normally see. 

Some ethical  challenges of using this tool could be bias and fairness because many AI tools inherit bias from data that they trained on so some could provide unequal treatment or learning styles. Another one could be errors, AI can sometimes make mistakes and can lead to incorrect grading or may give unfair outcomes.

Practical challenges could be the quality and reliability since AI might lack depth or context and could also misinterpret student input. Another could be students becoming overly dependent on AI which can cause their ability to think critically on their own become a lot less do able.

Using AI in schools is definitely becoming more of our reality. I honestly think it is helpful in a way but at the same time it’s creating a lazy generation. If students were taught how to use AI and only use it in certain situations then maybe I would view it differently but overall there are sooo many students who have used AI to write entire assignments, leaving them with not doing any of the work themselves. If students are not using their own thoughts and ideas how will they ever actually learn anything? That being said, there are some pros to having AI use in schools, I do think in the future AI will be extremely involved in our education system and that’s just something we will slowly have to adjust to.