Artificial intelligence is the latest technological breakthrough that has the potential to disrupt every aspect of education. AI plays a key role in personalising education, supporting curriculum development, and experimenting with new teaching styles.
However, the key to these benefits is effectively integrating artificial intelligence into school curriculums. This article discusses how teachers can use these tools in curriculums to make learning engaging, inclusive, and personalised.
Ways to Integrate AI Into the Curriculum
Teachers can effectively use AI in the curriculum in the following ways:
Generate Educational Content
Teachers can use artificial intelligence tools to create educational content for courses. AI tools can generate content based on the knowledge and skill levels of learners to ensure personalisation as well as adhere to educational standards.
Teachers can enter specific lesson topics into the tool to generate study materials, summaries, questions, assignments, and more on the subject matter.
They can also use these tools to identify additional learning resources for students. AI tools can also be trained to adhere to specific educational benchmarks of different school boards to meet the required benchmarks.
Designing Quiz Questions and Flashcards
Teachers often conduct quizzes in the classroom to improve learning among students and boost engagement. While quizzing is a fun and effective learning tool, preparing quiz questions can be time-consuming.
Teachers can use AI tools to draft quizzes on various subject matters like history, geography, english literature, science, and mathematics. The tool will draft quizzes according to the skill level of the learner.
Teachers can also use tools like Quizlets to design flashcards for topics. Students can go back to this flashcard repository before exams to ensure quick revisions and better retention for each topic/chapter.
Reviewing Student Work and Offering Feedback
Correcting student papers and grading work can take up significant time and effort. Teachers can use AI tools to automate this process. They can use tools to conduct the initial grading for MCQs and offer preliminary remarks on essay-type questions.
AI tutoring systems can also be introduced into the curriculum to offer students real-time feedback on their assignments, additional resources to improve content, and grammar, tone, and style suggestions.
Since teachers have limited time in the classroom, it is almost impossible to clear doubts and answer all questions within the allotted time. AI tools can take care of such needs since they are accessible 24×7.
Data-based Teaching Assistance
Teachers have to oversee a large number of students in the classroom. This makes identifying each student’s strengths, weaknesses, and problem areas in learning challenging. AI tools are trained to conduct thorough data analysis.
These tools can assess the learning patterns, pace, and capabilities of each student to highlight areas of strength and where improvement is needed. Teachers can often personalise help with one-on-one teaching sessions, focused assessments, and remedial classes based on these insights to bridge these gaps.
Draw and Refine Lesson Plans
Teachers are required to create lesson plans for the entire semester, chalking out how they will cover the given curriculum. They can use AI tools to simplify the process of creating lesson plans.
AI lesson planning tools can assist teachers in drafting structured outlines for courses based on learning objectives, student skill levels, and curriculum requirements. Teachers can also use these tools to refine already existing plans with AI suggestions on teaching materials, interactive exercises, and more.
Creating Smart and Interactive Content
Studies suggest that students learn better with interactive methods and activities rather than simply a text-based mode. Teachers can use AI tools to incorporate smart and interactive learning modes into the curriculum.
They can use AI to create audio-visual presentations, flashcards, and games to make the learning process more fun and interesting for students.
Similarly, teachers can integrate VR (virtual reality) tools to create simulations for students (like tours to historical sites, conducting experiments in a lab, etc.) to help students get hands-on experience with their learning materials. These strategies can boost student engagement and result in better performance.
Use AI for Translation and Better Accessibility
Language barriers can often cause hindrances in the teaching-learning process. Teachers can use translation tools to translate lessons into the preferred language of the student. Teachers can also use tools to ensure better accessibility in the classroom for students with disabilities.
For instance, teachers can integrate AI tools in classroom teaching that offer text-to-speech and speech-to-text translations, auto-captions for videos, and more to help students with sensory disabilities access course material.
Undertake Adaptive Testing
Teachers have to rely on standard testing methods to assess student performance and grade them accordingly. However, such standardised tests can be unfair to certain learners, like students with learning disabilities like dyslexia. Integrating AI into the curriculum allows teachers to conduct adaptive testing instead. In adaptive testing, AI tools customise test and assessment questions according to the student’s learning skills.
The system assesses previous answers of the student to increase or decrease the level of difficulty in questions. Adaptive testing allows teachers access to more data about students who may need extra help and support.
Summing it up
Apart from platforms like banks and NBFCs, artificial intelligence is also being quickly adopted in the field of education to help enhance both teaching and learning experiences. Teachers can use AI tools to design lesson plans, customise learning, design interactive experiences, and conduct adaptive testing. T
hey can also use insights to identify students who need additional support and areas of problem. For effective AI integration, teachers can also find resources and books on ethical artificial intelligence implementation and AI usage in the classroom on online marketplaces. Reviewing these resources helps teachers take a more informed approach to AI integration in the curriculum.