CELTT's Jessica Stansbury: Let's Embrace the Challenge of AI in Education
May 16, 2023
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In an opinion piece in The Baltimore Sun, Dr. Jessica Stansbury, The University of Baltimore's director of teaching and learning excellence in the BOA Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT), says that the exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for teaching and learning should be welcomed by educators.
"AI is ... part of our world, today," she writes. "As these things go, there is some level of panic about it. But if we shift our mindset about the ways people learn, by only a click or two, we can see how AI—as a way to prompt ideas, assist in simple tasks and fill in gaps in our knowledge—may complement and enhance human capabilities."
Stansbury, who for the past few months has been leading an extended campus-wide conversation about the technology's potential, says it may offer opportunities that are difficult to discern in the short term.
"Good educators know that teaching can always be made better," she writes.
"I say, let's embrace this new challenge. Let's start having tough conversations about how we teach and how students learn in the 21st century," Dr. Stansbury asserts. "Let's support students so they become better consumers and active users of knowledge and take the lead in the purely human processes that comprise education. Let's collaborate, connect, co-create, and reflect on our lived experiences, as we develop more tools like AI for the school of the future.
"A person's capacity to learn, in ways we can scarcely imagine, is constantly evolving. Our work as educators is to master that capacity and maximize its usefulness in every student's life."
Read the op-ed in The Baltimore Sun.
Learn more about Dr. Jessica Stansbury.