Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promises and Implications for Teaching and Learning

“The landscape for education has been rapidly changing in the last years: demographic changes affecting the makeup of families, multiple school options available to children, wealth disparities, the global economy demanding new skills from workers, and continued breakthroughs in technology are some of the factors impacting education. Given these changes, how can schools continue to prepare students for the future? In a world where information is readily available online, how can schools continue to be relevant? The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has exacerbated the need to have these conversations. Its impact on education and the multiple possibilities that it offers are putting pressure on educational leaders to reformulate the school curriculum and the channels to deliver it. The book “Artificial Intelligence in Education, Promises and Implications for Teaching and Learning” by the Center for Curriculum Redesign immerses the reader in a discussion on what to teach students in the era of AI and examines how AI is already demanding much needed updates to the school curriculum, including modernizing its content, focusing on core concepts, and embedding interdisciplinary themes and competencies with the end goal of making learning more enjoyable and useful in students’ lives. The second part of the book dives into the history of AI in education, its techniques and applications –including the way AI can help teachers be more effective, and finishes on a reflection about the social aspects of AI. This book is a must-read for educators and policy-makers who want to prepare schools to face the uncertainties of the future and keep them relevant."
—Amada Torres, VP, Studies, Insights, and Research, National Association of Independent School (NAIS)

“The rapid advances in technology in recent decades have already brought about substantial changes in education, opening up new opportunities to teach and learn anywhere anytime and providing new tools and methods to improve learning outcomes and support innovative teaching and learning.Research into artificial intelligence and machine learning in education goes back to the late 1970s. Artificial intelligence methods were generally employed in two ways: to design and facilitate interactive learning environments that would support learning by doing, and to design and implement tutoring systems by adapting instructions with respect to the students’ knowledge state.But this is just the beginning. As Artificial Intelligence in Education shows, AI is increasingly used in education and learning contexts. The collision of three areas – data, computation and education – is set to have far-reaching consequences, raising fundamental questions about the nature of education: what is taught and how it is taught. Artificial Intelligence in Education is an important, if at times disturbing, contribution to the debate on AI and provides a detailed analysis on how it may affect the way teachers and students engage in education. The book describes how artificial intelligence may impact on curriculum design, on the individualisation of learning, and on assessment, offering some tantalising glimpses into the future (the end of exams, your very own lifelong learning companion) while not falling victim to tech-hype. The enormous ethical, technical and pedagogical challenges ahead are spelt out, and there is a real risk that the rapid advances in artificial intelligence products and services will outstrip education systems’ capacity to understand, manage and integrate them appropriately. As the book concludes: “We can either leave it to others (the computer scientists, AI engineers and big tech companies) to decide how artificial intelligence in education unfolds, or we can engage in productive dialogue.”I commend this book to anyone concerned with the future of education in a digital world.”
—Marc Durando, Executive Director, European Schoolnet

"Artificial Intelligence in Education is really two books in one: the first presents a comprehensive curriculum framework for 21st century learning; the second is a thorough survey of the uses of AI in learning. It is an invaluable resource for those concerned with the future of education."Tony Wagner, best-selling author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators"This book provides a benchmark for understanding the impact of AI on the goals and methods of education in the 21st century."Henry Kautz, past-president, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence"AI is changing the knowledge and skills students need for success ... also enabling novel, powerful methods of teaching and learning. This valuable book also describes AI in education in the larger context of shifts in society."Chris Dede, Professor in Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University"Artificial Intelligence in Education is the best synthesis to date of the implications of code that learns--both the new aims it demands of secondary education and how educators can incorporate it into learning experiences."Tom Vander Ark, CEO, Getting Smart, first director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"Artificial intelligence will be disruptive, but few people understand that education is going to be in the first front-line. This brilliantly reflective and forward-looking book helps the education community in navigating the storm.  Quite a daring intellectual undertaking!"Dirk Vandamme, Senior Advisor, OECD"This is a must read for educators and all stakeholders interested in the future of education which will be impacted--and more than likely transformed--by AI.  I'll also keep it handy as a ready reference to the many "what" and "how" frameworks and models."Jim Flanagan, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, ISTE"A must-read resource that enables you to cut through the hype around AI in education and think deeply about designing the future of teaching and learning. Balanced and clearly written for easy understanding, this is an essential guide to this early moment in the fourth Industrial Revolution."Keith Krueger, CEO, COSN"Artificial Intelligence in Education is a breakthrough that delves into two very important and related subjects: moving to a more modern personalized curriculum and the role of AI in teaching and learning. The book provides an excellent overview of both of these areas."Rob Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium"Readers will certainly welcome the analytical perspectives and, even more, the value propositions that reaffirm the value of education in a world where many spheres of daily life could be dramatically challenged by artificial intelligence."Francesc Pedró, chief, education policy, UNESCO"This is a comprehensive and elaborate synthesis of how AI will change what we need to learn, but also how we will learn it in the future."Ulrik Juul Christensen, chief executive officer--Area9 Lyceum"This book provides the strongest foundation available for deepening that understanding. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to go beyond the hype of AI towards appropriate, precise, and empowering uses of these tools for learning."  Maria Langworthy  director, Microsoft"...provides readers with both a view on what people should know to thrive in the era of AI, as well as how AI will impact the education industry and society more broadly."Jim Spohrer, director, IBM"As educators, particularly as educators, we need guidance to navigate our way in this complex and uncertain age of Artificial Intelligence. This is a guide that was worth waiting for. "Anthony Mackay, CEO, NCEE