Artificial intelligence has the potential to positively impact education by playing to the strengths of both humans and AI. AI can help with tasks like identifying student weaknesses, monitoring curriculum effectiveness, and improving scheduling to assist teachers. However, AI needs data from an accessible platform within an educational environment to be effective, otherwise there is no "garbage in" for the AI system. The main roles of AI should be facilitation, augmentation, curation, and providing decision support to teachers, acting as a "teacher's aid" rather than replacement.

1. Artificial Intelligence and
Education

2. What is AI?

5. “A little AI, a little ML…”

6. The traditional problems (or goals) of AI research
include reasoning, knowledge representation,
planning, learning, natural language processing,
perception and the ability to move and
manipulate objects.

8. En Passant
It is the only capture in chess in which
the capturing piece does not replace the
captured piece on its square.

9. THE FUTURE of AI

10. “I think there’s a world market for
about 5 computers.”
Thomas Watson Jr., IBM

11. “There’s no chance the iPhone will
get any significant market share.”
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft

13. Prediction Time
The main impact of AI on Education will be to
facilitate less overt tech within the educational
process.

14. Uhh, what?

16. Things Humans are Good At:
Creativity and Reasoning
Personal Connections
Innovation and Flexibility

17. Things AI is Good At:
Pattern Matching
Making Data Driven Decisions

18. “Most of us end up with no more than five or six
people who remember us. Teachers have
thousands of people who remember them for
the rest of their lives.”
– Andy Rooney

19. “Life is amazing: and the teacher
had better prepare himself to be a
medium for that amazement.”
– Edward Blishen

20. Great Teaching
Transcends Technology

21. The chief goals of AI within the educational
environment should be facilitation, augmentation,
curation, and instrumentation.
i.e. “Support” or the “Teacher’s Aid”

22. Identifying student weaknesses.
Monitoring curriculum effectiveness.
Improving scheduling.
Decision support.
Responding to demand.

23. OK, so what?

24. Gimme some
sweet, sweet AI

25. Bad News
Garbage In = Garbage Out

26. Most educational environments
don’t even have a garbage
(rubbish) can (bin)!

27. No Platform = No Data = No Garbage
In = No Garbage Out = No AI

29. The Platform for Education

30. • Humans and AI will each play to their strengths.
• All teachers could use a little help, and this is where AI will
excel.
• AI will also facilitate less overt tech within the classroom,
and thus positively impact educational outcomes.
• No data living within an accessible platform? No AI for
you!
Recap

31. Thanks!