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50 strategies for integrating AI into the classroom
\"Learn how to harness the power of AI in your classroom! This professional resource includes 50 easy-to-implement strategies for using AI technology as a tool for teaching. This book saves teachers valuable time with activities that boost literacy, content knowledge, and student engagement using AI tools.Written by a teacher who specializes in using technology in his own classroom, this professional book introduces artificial intelligence and the many ways it can help educators. These quick, accessible strategies for using AI academically and creatively can be used in any K-12 classroom. From sample prompts for AI to activities that support community building and fun, help teachers save valuable time and implement creative strategies with the tools in this resource!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The effects of over-reliance on AI dialogue systems on students' cognitive abilities: a systematic review
The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue systems within educational and research settings highlights the importance of learning aids. Despite examination of the ethical concerns associated with these technologies, there is a noticeable gap in investigations on how these ethical issues of AI contribute to students’ over-reliance on AI dialogue systems, and how such over-reliance affects students’ cognitive abilities. Overreliance on AI occurs when users accept AI-generated recommendations without question, leading to errors in task performance in the context of decision-making. This typically arises when individuals struggle to assess the reliability of AI or how much trust to place in its suggestions. This systematic review investigates how students’ over-reliance on AI dialogue systems, particularly those embedded with generative models for academic research and learning, affects their critical cognitive capabilities including decision-making, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning. By using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, our systematic review evaluated a body of literature addressing the contributing factors and effects of such over-reliance within educational and research contexts. The comprehensive literature review spanned 14 articles retrieved from four distinguished databases: ProQuest, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science. Our findings indicate that over-reliance stemming from ethical issues of AI impacts cognitive abilities, as individuals increasingly favor fast and optimal solutions over slow ones constrained by practicality. This tendency explains why users prefer efficient cognitive shortcuts, or heuristics, even amidst the ethical issues presented by AI technologies.
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Simplifying didactic game design with online tools
Nowadays, there is a strong emphasis on shifting activity from the teacher to the student in education. Students should be more actively involved in the learning process, working independently and engaging with the lesson. One way to achieve this is through didactic games. These provide an engaging method to enrich lessons and activate students. However, a major drawback of didactic games is their preparation. Designing a didactic game is time-consuming and often requires creating multiple teaching aids and materials. In today’s digital era, various online platforms and applications can assist teachers in this process. Given the large number of existing applications and the constant emergence of new ones, it is beyond our capacity to cover all of them. Therefore, our contribution will focus only on a selected few. Besides the well-known and popular platform Kahoot.com, we will also discuss Blooket.com, Quizizz.com, Gimkit.com, and LearningApps.org. The online environment allows for the creation of more complex didactic games, such as escape-room-style activities or quiz games inspired by the ‘Jeopardy!’ format. We regularly use all these applications in our teaching. Our presentation will include examples of didactic games that have been tested in real classroom settings. After implementing a didactic game, we conduct a reflection session with both students and observing teachers. Additionally, we introduce these platforms to future physics teachers in seminars at the University of Hradec Králové. Students find these seminars beneficial and often incorporate many of these activities into their own teaching practice.
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A critical evaluation, challenges, and future perspectives of using artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in smart classrooms
The term \"Smart Classroom\" has evolved over time and nowadays reflects the technological advancements incorporated in educational spaces. The rapid advances in technology, and the need to create more efficient and creative classes that support both in-class and remote activities, have led to the integration of Artificial Intelligence and smart technologies in smart classes. In this paper we discuss the concept of Artificial Intelligence in Education and present a literature review related to smart classroom technology, with an emphasis on emerging technologies such as AI-related technologies. As part of this survey key technologies related to smart classes used for effective class management that enhance the convenience of classroom environments, the use of different types of smart teaching aids during the educational process and the use of automated performance assessment technologies are presented. Apart from discussing a variety of technological accomplishments in each of the aforementioned areas, the role of AI is discussed, allowing the readers to comprehend the importance of AI in key technologies related to smart classes. Furthermore, through a SWOT analysis, the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of adopting AI in smart classes are presented, while the future perspectives and challenges in utilizing AI-based techniques in smart classes are discussed. This survey targets educators and AI professionals so that the former get informed about the potential, and limitations of AI in education, while the latter can get inspiration from the challenges and peculiarities of educational AI-based systems.
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Effects of Physics Alphabet Model on the mean achievement of student’s performance
This study focuses on the development and assessment of an instructional tool known as the “Physics Alphabet Model” for Grade 10 students at Cantilan National High School. The research employs a descriptive design and post-test scores to measure the tool’s effectiveness. Each group, consisting of 30 students, is divided into a control group and an experimental group, where the experimental group is exposed to the Physics Alphabet Model as an instructional aid. The teaching method employed for both groups is the Conventional Method, and the integration of the Physics Alphabet Model occurs within the respective classrooms of the participants. After collecting and analyzing the test scores from both groups, it becomes evident that there is a notable improvement in mean scores between the pre-test and post-test assessments for both methods. Statistical analysis, specifically the T-test, indicates a significant difference when comparing the means of pre-test and post-test scores for both the control and experimental groups. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that the post-test mean score and the associated significance value obtained when integrating the Physics Alphabet Model are significantly higher than those achieved through the Conventional Method alone. Consequently, this study concludes that the incorporation of the Physics Alphabet Model as an instructional resource in the study of physics leads to a substantial enhancement in students’ mean achievement scores.
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Bringing the Solar System Online: Using Google Sites to Boost Middle School Students’ Earth and Space Science Understanding
The field of education is strongly influenced by technological advances, which generate new learning patterns and require rapid adaptation. The study of the Earth and the Solar System presents difficulties due to the impossibility of direct observation, making the use of teaching aids necessary. However, many teachers still teach classes without resorting to these resources, limiting the effectiveness of the teaching-learning process. The objective of this research was to design and develop web-based teaching aids using Google Sites to improve students’ conceptual understanding of the Earth and the Solar System. The study was conducted using a Research and Development (R&D) approach following the ADDIE model and using a single-group pre-experimental design with pre- and post-tests. The validity of the product was verified by experts, and the effectiveness test yielded an effect size d’ of 3.07, demonstrating a significant influence on improving students’ conceptual understanding. The results show that the use of interactive media such as Google Sites facilitates learning and strengthens understanding of concepts.
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Junior High School Geometry Visualization Activity
There is a series of learning that is rarely done by students to form comprehensive geometry knowledge. Visualization activities in this learning will help students through a series of geometry learning that matches the stages of geometry thinking. This activity has resulted in an increase in visual levels that are owned by students. Visual teaching aids and student activity guidance sheets are used in a series of learning. In this way students not only gain knowledge but do contextual visualization activities. This activity can be easily adapted for use on broader geometry topics.
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Practice of applying functional approach to the design of digital learning aids
In accordance with its aim, the paper highlights practical aspects and experience of the functional approach applying to the development of contemporary digital learning aids in the progress of project-driven activity of the pre-service IT specialists at their holistic vocational training. Theoretical framework of the work is made by holistic educational paradigm and functional approach to digital learning aids development. The specific examples of such an experience of the functional approach applying to the design of digital learning aids within project-based activity of the pre-service IT-specialists at their holistic vocational training: project activity on the design of (1) English digital tutorial for schoolchildren and (2) e-guide on the cryptography fundamentals for university students, are depicted in details. The analysis of such an activity is provided from the standpoint of the benefits of holistic and functional approaches. The prospects of following up research are covered.
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“It’s Important to Think of Pepper as a Teaching Aid or Resource External to the Classroom”: A Social Robot in a School for Autistic Children
For a period of 3 weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school for autistic children. The robot’s behaviours and integration into the school were co-designed with the children and teachers, with a focus on improving the well-being of the pupils. Using a mix-method approach, we studied the robot’s adoption over the course of the study, and the impact of the robot’s presence on the children well-being and the school ecosystem. We found that the robot successfully integrated within the school; it fostered and maintained a steady level of interactions (330 interactions, 16 h of continuous use over 3 weeks) with a small yet meaningful group of children with a positive impact on their well-being; and it led to a nuanced conversation with the students and school staff about the role and impact of such a social technology in a SEN school.
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