Empowering teaching and learning with artificial intelligence

The rapid development of AI technology has raised higher demands on education, driving comprehensive reforms in educational concepts, technologies, and methods. AI has the potential to accelerate the transformation of talent cultivation models, enhance educational quality, and foster innovative teaching models. Integrating AI-related courses into teaching cultivates students’ computational thinking, data analysis, and algorithm application skills, fostering their innovation awareness and exploration spirit through problem-solving. Additionally, leveraging AI technology and big data to analyze student learning data provides customized learning paths and resources. Furthermore, human-machine collaborative teaching constructs intelligent learning scenarios, enabling teachers to leverage AI technology to improve teaching effectiveness and offer more patient, accurate, and unique learning support services. Students can have personal learning assistants and consultants, providing them with a more personalized learning experience.

The fundamental purpose of empowering teaching and learning with AI is to promote in-depth educational reforms and establish a new paradigm that is interconnected, integrates theory and practice, and is flexible and adaptable. This requires re-imagining teaching design for real-time content updates and diverse course organization, gradually implementing personalized teaching to foster student autonomy and creativity, comprehensively improving teaching quality through data-driven improvements, and ultimately constructing a more intelligent, efficient, and personalized educational ecosystem to cultivate diverse and innovative talents to meet the development needs of future societies.

Empowering teaching and learning with AI is an essential path for driving educational reform and innovation. It will lead the digital transformation of education, bringing new opportunities and challenges. In the process of promoting AI technology application, we must focus on balancing efficiency and equity, speed and scale, and supply and demand, avoiding the emergence of the digital divide and ensuring the fair distribution and utilization of educational resources. Additionally, teachers need to continuously enhance their AI technology literacy, master the fundamental principles and application methods of AI technology, adapt to new teaching environments, and better utilize AI technology to serve teaching and learning, promoting high-quality educational development.

The work titled “Empowering Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence”, was published on Frontiers of Digital Education (published on July 2, 2024).