Risks & Benefits of Teaching AI
Potential Benefits of AI in Education
- Content development and differentiation
- Assessment design and timely, effective feedback
- Tutoring and personalized learning assistance
- Aiding creativity, collaboration, and skill development
- Operational and administrative efficiency
Potential Risks of AI in Education
- Plagiarism and academic dishonesty
- Diminished student and teacher agency and accountability
- Compromised student privacy and unauthorized data collection
- Overreliance and loss of critical thinking
- Perpetuating social bias
AI for Teaching & Learning
In this video (39:27), learn how to get started with Microsoft Copilot.
Teaching and Learning
- Personalized learning:Create tailored content, feedback and guidance for students based on their individual needs and learning styles.
- Content creation: Brainstorm materials such as quizzes, rubrics and assignments.
- Communication: Draft emails, announcements, event promotion and other communications.
- Brainstorming: Gather new ideas for research, group projects and academic papers.
Course Planning & Assignment Design
Consider Using AI to Create
- Concept maps (or Mind Maps using NotebookLM) showing relationships between key ideas.
- Explanations of complex concepts in multiple formats (e.g., analogies, step-by-step breakdowns, etc).
- Scenario-based learning exercises.
- Logical learning sequences.
- Activities where students compare human and AI approaches to problem-solving.
- Projects that combine AI tools with traditional research methods.
- Diverse discussion prompts that encourage critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Draft assignment rubrics that can then be customized for specific needs (from AI for Education).