New ways of learning are created by artificial intelligence
The way we live is changing daily
with the influence of artificial intelligence (AI). Through it,
efficiency is being improved in many industries, such as logistics or
financial services. It is also helping to improve medical care by
enabling the analysis of large amounts of data and earlier diagnosis of
diseases or allowing greater automation of tasks at home and at work.
The
way in which we inform ourselves, communicate and learn today is no
stranger to these transformations. Since the advent of the Internet and
search engines, the way we find and process information has begun to
change. And this has increased with the implementation of artificial
intelligence in these engines. For example, AI-based recommendation
systems are helping users to discover content that interests them.
In
addition to the above, AI content generating tools are appearing in
audio, image or text format where users can consume and produce
information in a much more personalized, interactive and user-friendly
way, which brings to the table an old debate about how the education
system appropriates the changes generated by technology.
The
traditional education system has focused on memorizing information, an
activity that was very useful when finding information was
time-consuming and not so easy, but with tools such as chatbots, where
answers to complex questions can be found quickly and simply,
memorization no longer seems to make much sense. The boom is so great
that, for example, during January 2023, New York schools banned the use
of ChatGPT because “students could cheat on assignments or assessments”.
A
new challenge brought by this new paradigm is that of data literacy.
Today we are constantly exposed to artificial intelligence engines, but
very rarely do we really understand how they work, or simply what we are
using them for. Data literacy enables people to make informed decisions
and make use of data in an ethical and responsible manner. In this
context, it is crucial to know how it works so that we can understand if
the answer is correct or not, if it has biases, or if it is not
answering us what we are asking it to.
The
use of these technological tools in education facilitates the creation
of more interactive, immersive and personalized proposals so that all
people can truly appropriate knowledge and create new ones. At the same
time, they allow to really focus on the purpose and objective to be able
to keep looking for innovative solutions to the different challenges of
humanity.
Published by Iraic.info, news and information agency.