In fact, the teacher industry is not the first industry to be impacted by artificial intelligence, but it has indeed brought great influence to the teacher industry.
According to HoloniQ's data, from 20 18 to 2022, the global investment in educational technology (EdTech) will increase from $4.37 billion to $665.438+70 billion. This shows that the educational technology market is growing rapidly, and the application of AI technology in the education industry is also expanding.
According to the report released by International Data Corporation (IDC), the scale of global AI in the education market will reach $654.38+49 billion in 2020, and it is expected to reach $5.89 billion in 2025. This reflects that the application of AI in the field of education is getting more and more attention. In 20 17, Stanford University published a report entitled "AI and Life in 2030", predicting that AI will bring great changes to education in the next few years. The report pointed out that artificial intelligence will help to realize educational innovations such as personalized learning, intelligent teaching materials and adaptive evaluation.
In the United States, according to a study by RAND Corporation, personalized learning can improve students' math and reading ability. It is found that after two years of individualized study, students' math scores are 3-7 percentage points higher than those of traditional teaching methods.
The influence of AI is mainly concentrated in the following aspects:
1 Changes in information dissemination: With the development of network and digital technology, the information dissemination mode has undergone tremendous changes. Students can get a lot of knowledge and resources through the internet, instead of relying entirely on traditional teachers to teach. AI technology can intelligently filter and recommend this information and improve learning efficiency.
2 Individualized learning needs: The traditional education model often adopts one-to-many teaching methods, which is difficult to meet the individual needs of different students. AI technology can provide students with personalized learning resources and paths according to their learning data, and help them master knowledge more efficiently.
3 The rise of online education: Online education platform allows students to study anytime and anywhere, breaking the geographical and time constraints. AI technology can provide more powerful support for online education, such as intelligent question answering system and automatic homework correction.
4 Optimization of educational resources: Educational resources are unevenly distributed in the world. AI technology can help optimize the allocation of educational resources and improve the availability and effective utilization of educational resources.
5 Education evaluation and monitoring: AI technology can use big data and machine learning technology to intelligently diagnose and evaluate students' learning status, provide teachers with more information about students, and conduct targeted teaching.
6 education cost reduction: AI technology can replace the work of some teachers to a certain extent and reduce the education cost. For example, teachers can reduce their workload by automatically correcting homework and monitoring students' progress.
To sum up, authoritative data and research reports show that the application of AI technology in the field of education is expanding, which has had a significant impact on the education industry.
But at present, it is difficult for AI to completely replace the profession of teachers.
1 Technical level: The current AI technology can assist teaching to a certain extent, such as intelligent recommendation of learning resources and personalized learning paths. However, AI still has limitations, such as understanding students' complex emotional needs and adapting to the ever-changing educational environment. So in the foreseeable future, it may be difficult for AI to completely replace the role of teachers.
2 Education mode: Although AI can help teachers complete some basic teaching tasks, such as correcting homework and monitoring students' progress, education is more than just imparting knowledge. Teachers play a key role in cultivating students' critical thinking, creativity and communication skills, which are irreplaceable by artificial intelligence.
3 Reduced interpersonal interaction: The wide application of AI in the field of education may lead to reduced face-to-face interaction between teachers and students and between students. This situation may weaken students' social skills, teamwork skills and the ability to establish emotional ties with others. Interpersonal communication plays an important role in cultivating students' communication ability, social ability and emotional wisdom.
4 Ignoring students' emotional needs: AI has relatively limited ability to understand and pay attention to students' individual differences, emotional needs and psychological development. Although AI can make personalized recommendations for students' learning needs, it may be insufficient in paying attention to students' emotional health and psychological stress.
5 Teacher unemployment: With the increasing application of AI technology in the field of education, some teachers may face the risk of unemployment, especially those who are mainly engaged in basic education and skills training.
6 Data privacy and security issues: AI needs to collect a large amount of student data during the education process, which may lead to privacy and data security issues. If these data are obtained or abused by unauthorized third parties, it may damage students' privacy and information security.
7 Educational equity: The popularization and application of AI educational technology may aggravate educational equity. For example, developed regions and families are more likely to obtain advanced AI educational resources, while underdeveloped regions and families may not be able to bear these costs. This may lead to the unequal distribution of educational resources among different regions and social classes.
8 Dependence problem: Overreliance on AI technology may lead to students' lack of independent thinking and problem-solving ability. This dependence may weaken students' creativity, critical thinking ability and ability to adapt to changing realistic environment.
9 Technical failure: AI system may have technical failure, misjudgment or program defect. These problems may have a negative impact on students' learning progress, academic performance and their psychological and emotional health.
In order to reduce the negative impact of artificial intelligence replacing teachers' teaching, we need to strengthen supervision in the process of popularization and application, formulate corresponding policies, and pay attention to the following aspects:
1 Attach importance to interpersonal communication: Educators and policy makers should attach importance to students' interpersonal communication needs, integrate face-to-face communication and discussion into the learning process, and cultivate students' communication and social skills. At the same time, teachers and students are encouraged to establish a good teacher-student relationship to meet students' emotional needs.
2. Cooperation between artificial intelligence and teachers: Combining artificial intelligence with teachers' auxiliary roles makes teachers pay more attention to students' emotional needs, psychological development and personalized teaching. Teachers can use AI to reduce some tedious work and put more energy into interaction with students.
Improve the quality of teachers: pay attention to the training and development of teachers, improve the adaptability of teachers in the application of AI technology, and let teachers play a more important role in the education process. Train teachers to learn how to use AI to assist teaching and how to deal with the problems that AI technology may bring.
4 Protect data privacy and security: Establish strict data protection policies and technical measures to ensure the privacy and security of student data. At the same time, strengthen the supervision of data collection, processing and storage to prevent data leakage and abuse.
5 Promote educational equity: The government and education departments should increase the promotion of AI educational technology in underdeveloped areas and vulnerable groups to ensure the fair distribution of educational resources among regions and groups.
6 Cultivate independent thinking ability: When designing and implementing AI educational technology, we should pay attention to cultivating students' critical thinking and innovative ability and avoid over-reliance on AI technology. Popularize the problem-oriented teaching mode, so that students can play their initiative and creativity in solving practical problems.
7 Continuous monitoring and evaluation: continuously monitor and evaluate the application of AI technology in the field of education, find possible problems in time, and take corresponding measures to improve.
Through the above measures, we can reduce the negative impact of AI replacing teachers' teaching and ensure that the application of AI technology in the field of education is more reasonable and efficient.