Teacher Assisted Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Global EdTech

As an educator I sought to understand the very meaning of the concept of AI and all the associated terminology that is supposedly at the forefront of educational technology disruption. At first, it seemed like rocket science to me, so I sought to find someone who would breakdown this concept to me and why I should be interested in it as an educator. Unfortunately this search proved futile at first. So I took up a personal challenge to seek to gain understanding in a way that I could share it with a child, as Albert Einstein once said, "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself…", meaning that if you are incapable of explaining it simply then you don't understand it well enough. In a simple form, it is a software imitating human capabilities and the understanding of how the world around us works.