5 tips for maintaining teacher-student trust as AI classroom use grows

As artificial intelligence-assisted technology increases in K-12 instruction and learning, many educators and education businesses see opportunities and potential for the tools -- including enhanced instruction that can be personalized for individual students and efficiencies in conducting student or teacher-led research. Others, however, hold concerns about the potential for cheating or false accusations of cheating, as well as overuse or inappropriate uses for AI systems, which use large amounts of analyzed data to make predictions and perform tasks. "We've done this over the decades because technologies, when they're first introduced, we either say that they are going to be detrimental or they're going to be lifesaving," said Shelley Pasnik, senior advisor to the Center for Children and Technology, a nonprofit that researches technology's influences on teaching and learning. In fact, the use of technology in classrooms, including AI, can be much more complex because humans are actually guiding the application of the technology, said Pasnik, who is also senior vice president at Education Development Center, a nonprofit that designs, implements, and evaluates programs to improve education. The Center for Children and Technology is affiliated with the Education Development Center.