INIT: Teaching and Learning with AI How artificial intelligence is transforming the future of education

摘要

"Blackboards are fashionable. Everyone praises them, and every school has them; ...no teacher now dares question their utility; but how many teachers prove their utility by daily use? To how many are they a constant necessity, not an occasional convenience?" These words were written in a short essay published in The American Educational Monthly in 1866 1. More than 150 years later, the classroom looks vastly different. When I taught in a high school math classroom in 2018,my classroom did not have a blackboard, but rather a markerboard, a document camera, and a projector to broadcast a computer screen. Yet, although the technology has evolved, these presentation tools carried on the same spirit of the original blackboard. They offered students the opportunity to see the mathematics illustrated, interact with the ideas, and present their own problem-solving methods for the class to see and learn.