{"id":969331,"date":"2022-01-11T05:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=969331"},"modified":"2022-01-11T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:50:27","slug":"how-can-ai-based-analysis-help-educators-support-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=969331","title":{"rendered":"How can AI-based analysis help educators support students?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are hosting a series of free research seminars<\/a> about how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) and data science to young people, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute.<\/p>\n

In the fifth seminar of this series, we heard from Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at the University College London (UCL) Knowledge Lab. Rose is Founder of EDUCATE Ventures Research Ltd., a London consultancy service working with start-ups, researchers, and educators to develop evidence-based educational technology.<\/p>\n

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Rose Luckin, UCL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Based on her experience at EDUCATE, Rose spoke about how AI-based analysis can help educators gain a deeper understanding of their students, and how educators can work with AI systems to provide better learning resources to their students. This provided us with a different angle to the first four seminars in our current series<\/a>, where we\u2019ve been thinking about how young people <\/strong>learn to understand AI systems.<\/p>\n

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Rose\u2019s definition of artificial intelligence for this presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Education and AI systems<\/h2>\n

AI systems have the potential to impact education in a number of different ways, which Rose distilled into three areas:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Using AI in education to tackle some of the big educational challenges<\/li>\n
  2. Educating teachers about AI so that they can use it safely and effectively\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Changing education so that we focus on human intelligence and prepare people for an AI world<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is clear that the three areas are interconnected, meaning developments in one area will affect the others. Rose\u2019s focus during the seminar was the second area: educating people about AI.<\/p>\n

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    What can AI systems do in education?\u00a0<\/h2>\n

    Through giving examples of existing AI-based systems used for education, Rose described what in particular it is about AI systems that can be useful in an education setting. The first point she raised was that AI systems can adapt<\/strong> based on learning from data. Her main example was the AI-based platform ENSKILLS<\/a>, which detects the user\u2019s level of competency with spoken English through the user\u2019s interactions with a virtual character, and gradually adapts the character to the user\u2019s level. Other examples of adaptive AI systems for education include Carnegie Learning<\/a> and Century Intelligent Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    We know that AI systems can respond to different forms of data. Rose introduced the example of OyaLabs<\/a> to demonstrate how AI systems can gather and process real-time sensory data<\/strong>. This is an app that parents can use in a young child\u2019s room to monitor the child\u2019s interactions with others. The app analyses the data it gathers and produces advice for parents on how they can support their child\u2019s language development.<\/p>\n

    AI system creators can also combine adaptivity and real-time sensory data processing <\/strong>\u00a0in their systems.<\/strong> One example Rosa gave of this was SimSensei<\/a> from the University of Southern California. This is a simulated coach, which a student can interact with and which gathers real-time data about how the student is speaking, including their tone, speed of speech, and facial expressions. The system adapts its coaching advice based on these interactions and on what it learns from interactions with other students.<\/p>\n

    Getting ready for AI systems in education<\/h2>\n

    For the remainder of her presentation, Rose focused on the framework she is involved in developing, as part of the EDUCATE service, to support organisations to prepare for implementing AI systems, including educators within these organisations. The aim of this ETHICAI framework<\/a> is to enable organisations and educators to understand:<\/p>\n