AI and education
What research says about learning, AI tutoring, the teacher’s role and educational robotics.
7 lessons · 1 quiz · 35 min · completion badge
- Explain the best-established memory mechanisms and apply them to a course.
- Understand what an AI tutor brings, and under what conditions it really helps.
- Define the teacher’s place in a classroom that uses AI.
- Design an educational robotics activity that teaches something other than robotics.
- Who it is for
- Teachers, trainers, school leaders and instructional designers.
- Prerequisites
- None, though experience of teaching or training helps.
- Duration
- 35 min
- Level
- Advanced
What the course covers.
- 01How we learn2 lessons
- Forgetting and spaced repetition3 min
We forget quickly, but predictably. Spacing out reviews is one of the best-established techniques.
- Testing yourself to learn3 min
Retrieving information from memory consolidates it more than rereading it.
- Forgetting and spaced repetition3 min
- 02Tutoring and AI3 lessons
- The two sigma problem3 min
One-to-one tutoring does much better than the classroom. The question is how to come close to it for everyone.
- An AI tutor that really helps8 min
Recent studies show that AI can help or harm learning, depending on whether it gives the answers or makes students think.
- The teacher’s place3 min
AI changes preparation, differentiation and assessment. It does not change who leads the learning.
- The two sigma problem3 min
- 03Educational robotics2 lessons
- Learning by building3 min
From Piaget’s stages to Papert’s Logo turtle: why programming an object that acts helps you learn.
- Robots in the classroom: what research says6 min
Robotics helps learning above all when it serves a subject goal. Social robots open up other uses.
- Learning by building3 min
- ✓Final quiz6 questions