{"id":167450,"date":"2025-01-28T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=167450"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:10:56","slug":"ai-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/human-social\/ai-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAI Won\u2019t Replace Teachers\u201d: Research Lab Director at the Institute for the Future of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The best way to integrate new technologies like Artificial<\/a> Intelligence (AI) into education isn\u2019t by creating autonomous systems meant to replace teachers. Instead, AI should be a tool to enhance and support educators’ work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulo Blikstein<\/strong><\/a>, director of the Research Lab at the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE)<\/a>, emphasized this point during the opening keynote of the IFE Conference 2025<\/a>, held at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey\u2019s Monterrey campus. His talk focused on AI\u2019s role in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently on sabbatical from Columbia University, Blikstein is an associate professor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies. He is also a co-founder of the Center for Educational Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Brazil at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that for more than a century, educational technologies have been developed with an oversimplified view of teaching. These tools often fail to understand the full scope of a teacher\u2019s role, so many have fallen short of their goal to democratize education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best use of educational technology happens when teachers facilitate, coordinate, and apply it with a clear purpose in the classroom,\u201c he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed the need for AI tools that incorporate teachers into the process using a \u201chuman-in-the-loop\u201c approach\u2014where educators can oversee and fine-tune the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blikstein was joined in the discussion by Michael Fung<\/strong>, IFE\u2019s executive director, to explore the realities and challenges of using AI in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paulo Blikstein said there are five ways to use AI in education. (Photo: Everth Ba\u00f1uelos \/ TecScience)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Five Ways AI Can Be Used in Education
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Blikstein pointed out that when people talk about AI in education, they often think of a single concept. However, there are multiple applications, and he highlighted five key areas where AI can make a difference: management, planning, assessment, research, and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These applications, he noted, provide significant value to teachers. Unlike some educational technology developers assume, a teacher\u2019s job goes far beyond explaining concepts. Educators also diagnose student progress in real-time, assess whether they are learning, coordinate group activities, and manage the social dynamics of a classroom, among many other tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechnologists tend to think teaching is just explaining, so they build systems based on that idea\u2014and those systems almost always fail. The technology works best when teachers are in control,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Blikstein referenced research showing that completion rates for online courses are extremely low\u2014often between 5% and 10%. These courses work well for individuals with higher levels of education but are far less effective for students who need more support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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