Examining AI Disruption in Educational Settings

The role of AI in education is slowly growing. As a new technology, its uses and capabilities have not been fully realized or understood. AI provides many opportunities as well as challenges for supporting students, teachers, and skills development. However, from higher education faculty to preschool teachers, the ways in which AI can support planning, research, and student learning are not fully understood. When harnessed effectively, AI has important implications for overcoming global concerns and increasing educational equality. Examining AI Disruption in Educational Settings: Challenges and Opportunities provides practical, researched examples of how AI has been applied in educational settings. It examines current AI policies and considers the ways in which education may change with the use of AI. Covering topics such as field experience preparation, critical thinking skills, and global education patterns, this book is an excellent resource for pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, higher education faculty, technologists, professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, and more

Michael Kessinger is currently an associate professor of education leadership at Morehead State University (KY), Volgenau College of Education, Foundational and Graduate Studies in Education Department. He serves as program leader for the K-12 Instructional Leadership and P-12 Administrative Leadership Doctor of Education program. His research, publications, and presentations have included areas in professional development, education technology, gifted education, and school leadership. Dr. Kessinger's background includes 38 years in public education and has served as secondary math and computer science teacher, secondary assistant principal, gifted education coordinator, finance director, chief information officer, and assistant superintendent. He received his doctorate (EdD) from the University of Kentucky, Education Specialist (EdS) and Master of Education from Morehead State University, and Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a teaching emphasis in mathematics and psychology.

Dr. Gera Nelson is an assistant professor at Morehead State University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate literacy classes, in addition to coordinating the Study Abroad Programs to Brazil and Ireland. Additionally, Dr. Nelson has taught P-12 education for over 20 years in Georgia and Kentucky. She has earned a Doctoral Degree in Curriculum and instruction - Literacy (Georgia Southern University), a master's in Middle School Education (Georgia Southwestern State University), and a bachelor's degree in journalism (FAFI -BH University in Brazil).

Lesia Lennex is a Professor of Education at Morehead State University in the Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education. She teaches P-12 curriculum, instruction, and technology. Research areas include P16 3D technologies, technology issues and integration for P16 schools, biology and social studies curriculum, and ethnobotany. Dr. Lennex has been quite active in Faculty Senate, having twice been elected as Chair and is currently the President of MSU's American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Dr. Lennex is an awardee of MSU's Distinguished Researcher, an Adron Doran Fellow, and is professionally committed to scholarly productions and leadership with the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). She has served as Chair of the special interest groups (SIG) Social Studies Education, Science Education, and Information Technology Education. Dr. Lennex took her Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, Social Studies education, with supporting areas in botany and American history from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She also holds a BA in Anthropology (zooarchaeology) and MS in Curriculum and Instruction, Social Studies education.