My article review

 

Article review

 One part of our coursework from ILT was writing an article review since we read so many up-to-date articles during the module about technology vs education and other topics throughout the module. I think it is beneficial for us. 

It is true that technology and AI have been becoming prevalent all around the world, especially youngsters can not imagine their life without AI. Noteworthy one is ChatGPT which is powerful chatbot uses “Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer” has revolutionized education. As students always seek for easy ways to reach their objectives this AI greatly impact on students’ future development. We should admit that we can not prohibit to use modern technologies and facilities for students as we are living fast-paced and rapidly developing world we are not able to hide or ban them.  So, I wanted to investigate that is ChatGPT or other AI are 100% reliable, educational organizations are ready to detect any plagiarism if students utilize ChatGPT. As a result, I chose the article " Is the Education System Prepared for the Irruption of Artificial Intelligence? A Study on the Perceptions of Students of Primary Education Degree from a Dual Perspective: Current Pupils and Future Teachers" for my article review.  This paper consists of analysis of a number of research papers about AI in education published from 2017 to 2023. It is about Lozano and Fontao's research investigates whether the education system is ready for the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

 

The article was written by Alba Lozano who works at Vice Rectorate of Research, University of Barcelona Spain and Carolina Blanco Fontao who works at the Department of General and Specific Didactics and Theory of Education, University of Leon in Spain. The article was published in the Education and Science Journal in 18^th July 2023.

The objectives of the study are as follows:

1: Study the level of previous knowledge and use of ChatGPT by the students.

2: Evaluate the perception of the application by students.

3: Evaluate the perception of the application as future teachers.

Involving 81 second year Primary education students that use ChatGPT in a classroom activities questionnaire that is divided into four parts is used to collect data. While the first was to collect demographics, the second one was to assess students’ prior knowledge about ChatGPT, and the third one focused on students’ opinion about utilizing ChatGPT, including its advantages and disadvantages. The fourth part investigated students’ views about usage of ChatGPT as future teachers.

 

Admittedly, AI, including ChatGPT, offers significant opportunities in education by improving communication between teacher and learner. As an innovational tool, it can enhance teaching methods and also improve students’ learning experiences. For example, AI enables individualized online learning and impacts positively on the academic performance of students by improving their motivation, teaching process and helps teachers to create more interesting and engaging contents, assessment and activities.

 

Nevertheless, there are some concerns related to implementing ChatGPT into education. As a matter of the fact that AI is getting improved day by day that gives students opportunity to cerate written content on their own and this can lead to the decrease in the occurrence and the importance of the assignments. Apparently, this poses a considerable challenge for the educational organizations and the teachers since detecting the cases of plagiarism gets difficult. For this reason, educators need to integrate new methods and technologies to identify difference between original student work and AI generated piece of writing. Utilizing ChatGPT in education causes challenge that educational organizations have to analyze the use of it in order to increase its positive effect on education and also maintain the principles of honesty, transparency in education.

For example, I work as an English language teacher at university. AI is great opportunities for students and also teachers. I do not have to check students’ essay word by word, instead, I use Grammarly.com to check their work. Furthermore, assessment was one of the biggest time eaters for me. After I learned how to use google classroom.com and different online tools I have no problem with evaluation process since AI itself can do it. However, there are some drawbacks of implementing AI in higher education, such as plagiarism as mentioned above. Students don’t want to create anything, such as essays, coursework etc. and AI does instead of students and it is the biggest fear for the teachers since day by day it can couse the loss of creativity and students' own voice.

The findings from this study reveals that there are some concerns about job displacement which AI may replace certain jobs done by people in education sector and also ethical uncertainties that some think using AI in education involve issues related to data privacy, fairness and decision making. Furthermore, there are some worries about the loss of learner centered teaching. The study by Lozano and Fontao  shows that both students and educators have significant concerns about integrating AI and ethical aspects of AI use, the potentiality of the change in teaching methodologies and it highlights the importance of taking actions to implement training programs and to improve educational curricula to address current shortcoming of AI in education. By this way AI supports and enhances teaching and learning process rather than disrupting it.