Back to school: the integration of AI into classrooms
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Emmanuel Duplàa (English & French)
Full Professor, Faculty of Education & Director, Professional Development Program
Professor Duplàa's research interests include educational technologies, E-learning, educational video games, and digital literacies.
"The development of artificial intelligence seems today to be an educational revolution. However, the history of AI since 1949 has already seen such ups and downs, always on the same theme: the interpretation of meaning. AI is also a formidable symbolic learning tool which, following on from Skinner's learning machines (1950), the General Problem Solver (1957) and intelligent tutors (1980), continues to place the learner at the center of the learning process. The question of AI in education is one of developing cross-disciplinary skills (critical thinking, creativity, algorithmics, collaboration, etc.) for the use of these mega-word processors, which give us a different relationship with the written word and, by extension, with others.
Banafsheh Karamifar ( English & French)
Assistant Professor, Technology Integration in Educational Settings, Faculty of Education
Professor Karamifar examines multimodal learning and the intersections of AI with language learning, higher education, adaptive learning, and inclusion.
“The integration of AI in schools must proceed with caution, clarifying the type of intelligence it mobilizes—one among many—while countering anthropomorphization; and it should be introduced only in certain subjects, in order to respect the plurality of futures.”
Shaily Gebethner ( English Only)
Part-time Professor, Faculty of Education
Professor Gebethner’s research interests include ESL, curriculum, and instructional design, learning management, education technology, artificial intelligence, mobile learning and EDI.
“Integrating AI into classrooms has the potential to personalize learning and free up teachers to focus on creativity and critical thinking, but it must be done thoughtfully to ensure equity and ethical use.”