Introduction to AI

Unit 3 – Implications for the future or work, learning and personal life

Lesson 3: Learning alongside AI

In education, AI is being used in various ways to try to enable learners and educators to work more efficiently and to personalise the learning environment.

Duolingo is a popular language learning app, and it now uses AI algorithms to personalise the learning experience for users. It adapts to the performance of the user, adjusting difficulty levels and content based on their progress.

Khanmigo is an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy - an non profit education project for learning. Their bot will adapt to the user, prompting them from topics they have already learnt to help them work out the answer to a problem without giving them the answer straight away. You can see an example at 1:50 in this video fromt he founder:

Coursera provides university-level courses to users. It now uses AI to recommend courses based on a user's interests, past learning experiences, and career aspirations. It also provides personalised feedback and assessments with AI.

EXAMPLES

Google has developed an app to help you with your homework. It’s a free app, called Socratic by google: https://socratic.org/

You can use an AI to help you learn English. It’s called ELSA and it helps improve your pronunciation while learning: https://elsaspeak.com/en/

You can learn sign language by using your webcam. This AI program analyses the shape of your hands to determine if you making the correct signs: https://fingerspelling.xyz/

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