inherent bias<\/a> that technology brings. The Common Sense Media report dubbed it \u201cinvisible influence,\u201d in which the teaching assistants were fed \u201cwhite-coded\u201d names and \u201cBlack-coded\u201d names. While each of the responses about the hypothetical students appeared innocuous, Torney says when a mass number of chats were compared, researchers found responses to the white-coded female names had more \u201csupportive\u201d responses and Black-coded names received shorter and less helpful answers. <\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m always surprised how difficult it is to see bias; sometimes it\u2019s obvious, sometimes it’s invisible and hard to detect,\u201d Torney says. \u201cIf you are just generating outputs on a one-off basis, you may not be able to see the differences in outputs based on one student versus another. It could be truly invisible and you may only see them at the aggregate level.\u201d <\/p>\n
Shovlin noted the companies themselves can have their own biases that may show up. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are affordances and limitations with any technology and I don\u2019t want to completely discount these platforms, but I\u2019m highly skeptical because they are commercial products and there is that imperative built into how they create these things and market them,\u201d he says. \u201cThis industry that has created these tools also has embedded bias as a result of who is doing the coding originally. If it\u2019s dominated by one identity, it will be baked into the algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma Braaten, director of digital learning at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University, also advises checking the company\u2019s terms and conditions to ensure data privacy, and not fully trusting specific companies or products just because they have been trustworthy in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are educators who trust this program or platform because we’ve used it before,\u201d Braaten says, urging educators to think more deeply. \u201cHow do we review and revisit that [tool] as they incorporate AI? Do we give a blanket of trust or start to review and think critically about those?\u201d <\/p>\n
There is also the importance of what Braaten calls \u201chuman in the loop,\u201d or ensuring both students and teachers are in the forefront while employing AI. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat piece both for students and educators is a huge focus to think about; making sure all these groups stay in the loop and not just give it all away to the tool,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen we have a teaching assistant in the classroom space, it\u2019s looking at \u2026 do we have guidance to make lessons to include both technology and the human connection in that space?\u201d <\/p>\n
Each of the experts interviewed by EdSurge acknowledge the tools, when used correctly, offer benefits for teachers that outweigh their potential pitfalls. The report pushed for educators to base the tools in their own lesson plans, instead of having the tools come up with proprietary lessons. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe [AI] model is not as good as the curriculum you’re teaching from,\u201d Torney says. \u201cIf you’re teaching from an adopted curriculum, the output will be so much better than getting a random generated lesson about fractions.\u201d <\/p>\n
And as adoption continues, experts urge the importance of leaning into the right way to adapt to the technology. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can’t just block AI with one sweeping wave of your hand; at this point it’s embedded into so many things,\u201d Braaten says. \u201cThere\u2019s looking at that integration into the products themselves, but also how you’re part of that system and how you incorporate it into your application [are what] we have to be critical thinkers about.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discussion about the use of AI in the classroom has become as commonplace as pencils or notebooks, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-101391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}