In the long "blacklist", the status of teachers is obscure. In this long "black list", the status of teachers is unclear, whether it will disappear from the list of professions in human society, has not yet formed a conclusion. In any case, the encounter between AI and teachers is inevitable. On this premise, a major question jumps out: what will happen when teachers meet AI?
The first question is: in the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need teachers?
How can teachers have a unique and irreplaceable value and role? This requires an insight into what changes AI will bring to "schools", "student learning", "curriculum and teaching", etc., and then, based on the premise and basis of these changes, to The focus is on whether teachers can make a difference in the face of these changes, and how to do so.
What will happen to student learning in the age of artificial intelligence?
The goal of learning is first and foremost the universal goal of being human. The focus is no longer on acquiring the specific knowledge, skills and methods needed for a future career, but rather on possessing reasonable values, strong creative thinking and ability, and the ability to learn independently, which are the foundation and root of true "adulthood" and the path to "lifelong learning". "These are the basic and fundamental prerequisites for true adulthood and lifelong learning.
Secondly, there is the special goal, which is related to the personalized needs of the students, and is the real "learning for oneself". Learning that meets one's own interests and needs results in a personalized body of knowledge, not just a standardized body of knowledge that applies to everyone.
In terms of learning resources, students are no longer limited to the teacher and the classroom as the source and means of acquiring knowledge and methods. Students will use AI such as Sri, Cortana, Alexa, etc. to find learning resources, and will no longer be bound to the institutionalized and fixed "classroom time".
What will the classroom look like in the age of artificial intelligence?
For the curriculum and teaching, a variety of curriculum resources and curriculum customization of the richness, professionalism, without the need for excessive involvement of schools and teachers, curriculum outsourcing or ordering gradually become mainstream. The "Artificial Intelligence" of classroom teaching has been a major trend. For example, in addition to whiteboards, future displays may be large enough to cover an entire wall and can be manipulated to display almost anything the classroom needs. Smart screens become modern blackboards, and smart desks become upgraded versions of modern desks that teachers can plug in and control at any time. These connected tablets provide the same online resources as smartphones and enable "classroom presence.
The classroom is a shuttle between the offline physical classroom and the online virtual classroom, where students engage in personalized, self-directed learning through online communities, makerspaces, and smart robots, and share, communicate, discuss, practice, and create offline when they focus.
The classroom in the age of artificial intelligence will be more inclined to "personal-oriented system learning", which is between "fragmented learning" and "system learning in school". It is a learning mode between "fragmented learning" and "systematic learning in school". Learners choose learning contents and learning paths according to their personal interests and problem-solving needs, rather than just systematic learning according to the requirements of the subject knowledge system. In this process, through the usual fragmented "zero storage", and ultimately realize the systematic "whole take", the fragmented knowledge in accordance with the needs of individuals to gradually build up their own knowledge system.
In such a classroom, teachers can utilize AI technology and big data to understand students' characteristics, personalities, and needs in a more refined and precise manner. For example, teachers using a software can roughly know which knowledge point, ability point, method point students will be, what still do not know; the use of English voice analysis intelligent software, students follow the software to speak a sentence, the software immediately bit by bit to help teachers point out the student's pronunciation problem where, how to change? Another example is that AI technology allows teachers to know which students are listening to "me", or are lost in thought, or are sleeping, and even understand the students' thinking trends and emotional fluctuations in the classroom through EEG ......
What will change in the age of artificial intelligence? won't change?
To this point, there is no need to describe the changes that AI will bring, and the most pressing question remains: what will happen to teachers in that case? What can and cannot be replaced by AI? What changes do teachers need to make in order to adapt to this change and take ownership of it, putting them back on the cutting edge of the times?
What can be replaced are those things that need to be done repeatedly (such as assigning homework, correcting homework), those things that require a lot of information collection, data accumulation and analysis (such as aggregating the teaching experience of many teachers into a machine, calculating all the possibilities, and finding the optimal path), and those things that need to be accurately positioned (such as the students' individual qualities and needs, and the students' difficulties and obstacles in learning, etc.). ). The fact that these things are being replaced is liberating for teachers. When AI can teach in a more precise and effective way anytime, anywhere, why not?
What can't AI replace? It is not AI that determines whether teachers can be replaced, it is the nature of education, the needs of students, and the unchanging rationale for education and the way of education that runs through it. Prior to this, we have been thinking and answering the question of "what will change in the era of artificial intelligence", and at the same time need to ask another question: artificial intelligence is coming, what will not change? With this clarification, education in the age of AI revolves around these unchanging things, "teaching and educating".
First, the constant is education itself. Human beings always need education, the development and use of artificial intelligence itself is always inseparable from education. In this case, "education in" is "students in", "students in" is "teachers in".
Secondly, what remains unchanged is the essence and true meaning of education. Education is born for adults, educating people, is for Professor Ye Lan said, "Teach the world personnel, education life consciousness", is "for the human life happiness foundation" and change and development. Regardless of the age of education, no one can be excluded, any artificial intelligence can not change this true meaning.
Once again, what remains constant is the need for students to grow. Students' literacy and competence does not happen automatically, nor can it be developed only by self-learning, the growth of students always need "teachers" such as guides, interactors, interlocutors, helpers and companions. These roles are the most important roles that teachers need to assume in the age of artificial intelligence. They are the ones who accompany the students in their journey through the dangerous shoals and thorns of the AI era, the ones who give the students the ability to break through the old knowledge and create new knowledge by empowering them with the ability to learn independently and think creatively, and the ones who guide and help the students to gain irreplaceable autonomy, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-improvement, and freedom in the world of AI.
In fact, in addition to the above three points, education will not change the content of these: education is not the same as simple "learning knowledge", education should be more moral, to focus on the cultivation of human morality, quality improvement, as well as through the learning in school, experience all as a "human" feelings, such as self-confidence, self-reliance, self-reliance and freedom. "
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool to improve the quality of human life and to improve the quality of life.
Teachers in the age of artificial intelligence need to have three major skills, namely "love quotient," "number quotient," and "trust quotient," in order to become people who are still needed by students.
The "love quotient" is related to values and emotional practices. This is something that AI cannot give to students. Teachers should first and foremost be people of love, with the "ability to love". Teachers can accurately grasp, understand, insight into the growth needs and personality traits of students, timely and meticulous personalized care, care, respect, so that students in the cold artificial intelligence world full of programming, coding, algorithms, but still be able to feel the temperature of human nature, the warmth of life, and the power of love, and learn to pass on the warmth and love to each other.
"Digital business" is related to big data. The era of artificial intelligence is born out of the era of big data, and the two go hand in hand. Data is the foundation on which artificial intelligence operates. Artificial intelligence into the classroom, first of all means big data into the classroom, including the data of students' pre-study, homework data, review data (such as wrong sets, collections and other review material data), test paper data and so on. Big data will help teachers determine what content students are interested in and need, what content may face difficulties and obstacles, what kind of twists and changes occur at what point in time, and where teachers' teaching should go next. "Digital intelligence" is related to the "digital competence" advocated nowadays, which is expressed in the sensitivity and passion for data, the ability to collect, integrate, analyze, utilize and generate data, and the ability to create new data, as well as the ability to convert data into teaching objectives, teaching methods and teaching links. objectives, teaching methods and teaching links. This will be a new basic skill for teachers in the age of artificial intelligence. The "pedagogue" in the era of big data and the craftsmanship it contains will thus be given a new core connotation, that is, the "spirit of data".
The "letter business" is related to the information age. In addition to data, the daily emergence of information in the era of artificial intelligence, especially a variety of education and teaching information, will be more like a tide, a torrent of ...... In the face of this information, teachers also need to have the "information technology competence", specifically related to how to retrieve, analyze, judge, refine, integrate, and integrate the information, so as to ensure that the teacher is not only a good teacher, but also an excellent teacher. The only way to avoid losing direction and self in front of the tide of information is to have the ability to realize what Zhuang Zi said, "Things are not things, so they can be things", so that teachers can become the dominant information, not the people dominated by information.
Teachers should have a high level of "love quotient", "numerical quotient" and "letter quotient", the root of which lies in the ability to learn continuously, especially the ability to learn on the move, and to use cell phones, tablet computers and other information technology media to communicate with each other. The ability to utilize various information technology media and tools, such as mobile phones and tablet computers, has never been as important as in the era of artificial intelligence. There has never been an era like the AI era that has such high expectations and requirements for teachers' learning ability: if you don't learn, you will be eliminated; if you don't continue to learn, you will be outdated, and you will be lost among the rest of the world...