Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Curious how teachers use AI in the classroom, professor creates popular online platform to enhance learning - Matthew Cimitile, USF St. Petersburg

A new online platform featuring more than 640 tools seeks to help educators incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom to enhance learning. Created by USF St. Petersburg Education Professor Zafer Unal, TeacherServer provides free AI tools to assist planning, assessment, preparation, research and more. There are currently more than 61,000 users of the site, who are primarily K-12 teachers and college faculty members. The development of the platform came from a simple question Unal and fellow researchers were interested to know: how are educators currently using generative AI in the classroom? They assumed many were resistant to use the emerging technology, fearing it would eventually lead to job losses.