How can teachers take a human-centred approach to AI?

Teachers' Voices

How can AI adjust learning materials and feedback to the needs of individual students? How can teachers make sure that the human element is kept?
In this episode, Nina speaks to Inge Molenaar, director of the National Education Lab AI in the Netherlands (NOLAI). Inge is a Professor in Behavioral Science who specialises in the interface between education and technology. Inge tells Nina how AI can help to personalise students’ learning. “The technology is being used to adjust the learning materials, and the instruction, and the feedback to the needs of individual students.”
Nina also speaks to Cecilia Aguilera Campos, a teacher in Spain. Cecilia uses robotics to support her teaching in different subjects with primary school children. “I teach programming, 3D design, 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality”, Cecilia says. She doesn’t teach robotics on its own, it’s always alongside other areas of education such as maths or music.
Next Nina meets Zarqaish Sheharyar, a science teacher working with secondary school students in Pakistan. Zarqaish uses AI to help her be more efficient in her own work. Zarqaish turns to ChatGPT “when I don't have time enough to plan my lessons or design the questions”. She also guides her students to use it. “T​hey can use the ideas given to them by the AI and then translate it into their own words, based on their own understanding.”
Finally, Nina hears from Yvette Larsson, a teacher in Sweden. Yvette has important conversations about the use of AI tools with her middle school learners. She also uses AI herself. For Yvette, ChatGPT is “like a brainstorm friend” for teachers who can be stressed with lots of admin to do. Yvette thinks ChatGPT can make teacher life a little easier. “What am I, as a teacher, going to put my energy and focus on?”
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Guests and resources
Inge Molenaar
LinkedIn
Twitter
National Education Lab AI (NOLAI)
Journal article: Towards hybrid human-AI learning technologies
Jacobs Foundation
Cecilia Aguilera Campos
LinkedIn
Zarqaish Sheharyar
LinkedIn
Facebook
Yvette Larsson
LinkedIn
Twitter
Blog
AHA! Accelerating Education
Guidance for generative AI in education and research
Ed-Technical: Insights on AI in education

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