In 2015, Ashok Goel and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology informed a class of students that a new teaching assistant named Jill Watson would be joining their course on artificial intelligence. They left out an important detail, however: Jill Watson is,…
One silver lining of COVID-19 is that it exposed failed legacy systems and processes, forcing organizations to digitally transform. One area that has benefited is education. There is a quiet revolution underway that is challenging assumptions we have held for more than…
There is a popular media narrative that AI will take over teachers. If anything, AI will be a new tool in teachers’ toolkits. Teachers spend a good portion of their time reeling with administrative burdens. AI will not replace them but free…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the subject of both hype and horror in education. During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, AI in education (AIed) attracted serious investor interest, market speculation, and enthusiastic technofuturist predictions. At the same time, algorithms and statistical models were implicated in several…
Artificial Intelligence has been creating a buzz for some time, along with Machine learning and Big Data. It is transforming companies and competitive sectors, but it has only started to understand its educational applications. Today we can see AI’s impact both in classroom…
Past research has identified student engagement, or the extent to which students participate and are involved in classroom activities, as a crucial factor determining both the quality of education programs and the academic performance of individual students. As a result, many educators…
Since the 1970s, digital technologies have changed teaching, learning and assessment. But @Aftab_Hussain from @BoltonCollege believes #ArtificialIntelligence will cause the greatest disruption yet: From the advent of the personal computer in the late 70s and early 80s, the explosion of the internet in the…
Our lives are surrounded by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some of the most popular examples include voice assistants, such as Alexa or Siri, which are powered by a type of AI known as Natural Language Processing (NLP). While these devices and tools help…
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications have over the past few years made the process of learning a fun and interactive experience. Thanks to the advancements in the domain, students as well as educational institutions are now equipped with customized software tools,…
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived, changing the world around us in exciting and unpredictable ways. We are getting accustomed to AI and our children will be highly dependent on it. AI helps bring about new careers, discover new drugs,…
