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Technology is an ever advancing system that is rapidly changing how we do things in society. The use of AI is dramatically going up so fast, even your brain couldn’t process how much of it being used these days! But as the use of technology and AI increases, that leads to dramatic effect on how humans approach the way we do our jobs and try to adapt to it and the education sector will be no stranger to the increasing use of technology and AI. As teachers get to grips with it, how can we use technology and AI to innovate teaching for the future so it can create a positive impact on students including those with additional needs?
Adaptive learning techniques
AI and technology can be used to identify how well students are doing in different subjects and areas of their learning to identify the strengths and weaknesses that they have and create a learning method and techniques that can help students make progress and improve their learning more quickly and effectively. For students with special needs and other additional learning needs, AI and technology will be able to help them with personalised plans and create quick progress in their stages of learning!
Better feedback generation
The functions and features of AI and technology can create a helping hand in marking work and giving feedback to the pupils, allowing them to identify where they have gone wrong and where their strengths are found. Not only this is helpful to teachers where more time is saved for them for areas like lesson planning, but it also allows quicker and effective development for students with special and additional needs as work can be tailored more and they won’t be left behind!
More accessible for disabled students
Using AI and technology can bring a very serious and impressive feature for many students with disabilities and learning difficulties with the inclusion of different assistive technologies including braille translation, text to speech or speech to text. The use of AI and technology is a positive benefit for disabled students and those with learning difficulties because it provides them with more access that can make them feel equal in the classroom and better assist them in their work.
Flexible classroom support
Finally, the major benefit that AI and technology brings is a better ability for teachers to plan their lessons and provide them more focused and flexible support within the classroom. This includes teachers’ schedules, classroom attendance, registers, and to-do-lists being digitally stored online which helps teachers actually teach! This is them not being lazy, this is just having more effective ways to help students in the classroom and provide more focused and flexible support to those with additional needs.
There are some legitimate concerns about what AI and technology can do to the education workforce and what it could mean to special needs students, those with additional needs and the teachers that are there to teach them. It is very unlikely that you are going to be replaced by malfunctioning robots any time soon so by embracing the ever evolving technology, you will get ahead of the system, and it will come to the benefit of teachers, and the students in the classroom that will need that support!