Teachers are superheroes. They perform responsibilities from managing the classroom and student engagement to lesson planning and grading exams. While they are amazing at what they do, they could use some help that would increase their productivity and save time.
Artificial Intelligence(AI) has come to the rescue to face these challenges as it has started getting incorporated into every sphere of life. AI tools can save the time of the teachers by streamlining the tasks and automating the repetitive activities while they can focus on what they do best: inspiring and educating students.
Here are some of the ways through which AI is changing the lives of educators and teachers:
- AI And Lesson Planning: Lesson planning is the most crucial and first step in teaching. Hence, creating a lesson plan that fits a class of a diverse group of children with different learning abilities, backgrounds, and learning gaps has to be a very time-consuming task, and it is a no-brainer.
AI tools such as Planboard and TeachFX lend a helping hand to the teachers so that they can create effective and engaging lesson plans for the students. AI can reduce the workload of teachers by managing repetitive administrative tasks and generating recommendations by analyzing the data.
To foster student engagement, Khanmigo can be used as it can analyze the curriculum standards and suggest videos, exercises, and other educational materials accordingly. Not only can AI platforms like Diffit generate exercises depending on grade levels and language, uplevel, or translate, but they also have a template library with resources in several formats.
- Grading And Feedback: As much as getting results and marks for the assignments is terrifying for students it is equally if not more time-intensive task for teachers. Making sure there is no bias and grading is done according to the set standards is necessary.
Brisk Teaching- is a great AI teaching assistant as it helps to create lesson plans, automate student assessment, and track performance. Another AI tool, such as Gradescope, works on rubric-based grading and gives feedback based on student performance analytics and also integrates the learning management systems (LMS).
- Classroom Management: Managing classroom performance and student engagement simultaneously is a huge responsibility. So, AI tools like PowerSchool come in handy as they not only track the performance of the students but also send reminders and generate reports on which the teachers can later work.
Students love it when the educational material is more relatable and fun; teachers, therefore, take the help of Classcraft, which gamifies classroom behavior management and reading for positive actions and identifies possible disruptions. These tools can help streamline classroom management operations and free teachers up for teaching and other creative work.
- Supporting Differentiated Instruction: Personalized learning experiences can enhance inclusivity by analyzing student’s performance and creating learning material depending on their needs.
Adaptive learning platforms such as Dreambox adjust the difficulty levels based on student data. This can also be achieved by AI-powered apps like Lingvist, through which teachers can communicate effectively in multilingual classrooms so that no student is left behind. These tools can help the students to thrive and reach their maximum potential by adapting to different learning styles and paces.
- Administrative Tasks: Apart from classroom-associated work, teachers tend to juggle various tasks that include administrative responsibilities.
Teachers can learn to use tools like Microsoft Power BI, which helps analyze the data and create real-time reports in no time, and ClassDojo, which can create personalized messages and schedule them to be sent to the parents so they are informed timely of the scores and performance of the students. Automating these tasks creates space for the space and energy of the teachers, which they can put into teaching and mentoring.
Benefits of AI For Teachers
Let us look at what benefits AI provides to teachers when incorporated into the educational landscape:
Time Saver: AI works as a timesaver for the teachers as it automates repetitive tasks such as tracking the attendance of the students.
Increased Efficiency: With AI lesson planning can be streamlined and resources can be effectively managed.
Enhanced Inclusivity And Student Engagement: The personalized lesson plans that cater to the needs of the students can help students meet the learning objectives without falling behind.
Deriving insights: AI tools can aid in generating insights from the student data which gives insights and understanding of student performance and effectiveness.
Maintaining Work-Life Balance: By reading the workload, AI gives time to the teachers to focus on creative work and personal well-being.
Challenges:
There are certainly some of the drawbacks to AI in the grading system. As AI works on the data that is fed to it often if the data is biased, there is a high chance that the outcomes will also be biased.
For Example: In education, this can lead to unfair advantage to certain sections of the students over others, biased grading, reinforcement of stereotypes which can negatively impact the society, and unequal access to learning resources.
Conclusion:
With all the understanding that we have gained regarding the powers of technology, especially- artificial intelligence in various fields and the powers that are yet to be discovered. No one can imagine how the different sectors are going to evolve.
But one thing is certain: if used properly, they can benefit us and make our lives much easier. By leveraging artificial intelligence, teachers can create lessons, which help in grading, managing classrooms, enhancing student engagement, and achieving a healthier work-life balance.
FAQs About AI Tools For Enhancing Teacher Productivity
1. How Can AI Help Me Save Time As A Teacher
By using AI tools the teacher’s workload is reduced as it automates the repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as grading assessments, planning lessons, and managing administrative duties. There are many tools like Gradescope that can grade in bulk.
2. Are AI Tools Expensive To Implement ?
Yes, AI tools are expensive to implement, as it is a relatively new technology but there are many AI tools that provide free versions and/ or affordable pricing plans and many negotiate depending on the orders placed, etc. so, educational institutions should ensure they find ways to make it more accessible to everyone.
3. Will AI Replace Teachers ?
AI is a very powerful tool but does not have the same emotional sentiment that humans possess. So, AI can assist teachers but cannot replace them. It can handle all the repetitive tasks and other tasks, which can leave room for the teachers to focus on creative and relational aspects of teaching that AI cannot replicate.
4. Is it Difficult To Learn How To Use AI Tools?
As being relatively new, many people are still not well versed as to how to handle AI or to make the most out of it. But there are many tools available that help in training people and platforms like ClassDojo require very minimal training.
5. How can I ensure student data privacy while using AI tools?
Data privacy is extremely important and has to be taken care of when dealing with AI, so one can choose tools that comply with data privacy regulations like GDPR or FERPA and make sure that every student’s information is protected.
