AI: A Guide from Mohammad S A A Alothman

Imagine a hypothetical class within a high school with students of different abilities and diverse learning speeds.

Imagine a hypothetical class within a high school with students of different abilities and diverse learning speeds, with variations in social backgrounds all stuffed within one classroom.

In that class, Sarah is not good at math but is good at reading. Jason is a master at making math problems easy but faces problems in writing tasks. Ms. Adams, their teacher, does the best she can to juggle all her students’ needs, but it becomes a bit of a juggernaut with the varying learning paces and styles. What does she do to ensure that Sarah gets her math work done while keeping Jason involved in writing?

Imagine that classroom now with the help of AI-driven education tools. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at how artificial intelligence can solve the issues in a classroom like Ms. Adams’, and make learning experiences unique and tailored for students like Sarah and Jason. Expert insights from Mohammad S A A Alothman of AI Tech Solutions will help us delve into what AI does to change the education world: making it more suitable, productive, and available for all.

One of the most exciting promises AI brings to education is the possibility of molding learning in new and diversified ways that fit the unique learning needs of every learner. Traditional classrooms, like those of Ms. Adams, oftentimes tend to flow to a one-size-fits-all mentality whereby some students are left behind while others never adequately challenge themselves. AI, however, presents an opportunity to design and implement learning opportunities that cater to personalized learning and help address problems in this traditional way of teaching.

According to Mohammad S A A Alothman, “AI can tailor education towards the needs of individual students, providing real-time, dynamic learning paths tailored to fit their needs.”

For Sarah, AI can be defined as a personalized learning path that identifies her weaknesses in math, including interactivities offering immediate feedback and practice exercises. 

Meanwhile, Jason’s AI-based learning path may focus on writing assignments to be answered with the continuous improvement of the answering capacities. With AI, children learn at their own pace, becoming confident and overcoming their challenges without the stress of keeping up with or waiting for others.

Identifying Learning Gaps and Closing Them

The next critical feature of AI in education is that it continuously tracks the student’s performance and reveals learning gaps. Unlike midterm or final exams that will determine a problem area in some acquired knowledge, AI discovers those areas as students continue their learning to intervene timely.

As Mohammad S A A Alothman puts it, “Platforms driven by AI can identify exactly where the student is getting into a jam and address this as soon as possible by providing additional resources and exercises in support of that student so they can get over the hurdle.” For Sarah, that might be some support when she runs into that pesky math problem, but for Jason, it could be just the right writing prompts to take another step in developing skills.

AI Tech Solutions has enabled the development of such systems that aim to do just this: intervene in real-time. All these tools depend on AI to carry out checks on performance using assignments and quizzes so that any time a specific challenge is encountered by a learner, they receive help on the same.

AI not only assists students but also enhances the teaching skills of teachers like Ms. Adams. The majority of the time that most teachers waste is on paperwork-related activities, such as grading, monitoring attendance, and writing reports. They hardly get time for their students. But AI could do all these jobs and enable the teachers to deliver better lessons.

“AI can be a teaching assistant that deals with such administrative tasks and gives the teacher a lot of information about students’ performance so that the teacher can do what they do best – teach,” said Mohammad S A A Alothman, the CEO of AI Tech Solutions. Teachers can access all the detailed reports related to the progress of their students and their learning needs using the smart tools of the classroom.

For example, if this AI system could collect the learning data of Sarah and Jason, it could immediately tell Ms. Adams what adjustments she should make in her lessons to accommodate those needs better. All routine tasks would be done by AI, freeing up more time for direct contact with students and help in more complicated lessons or just one-to-one support.