Teaching in 21st century

 

Education Next!

Now when Artificial intelligence has gained ground everywhere, the modes of education also need to be revised. Now the teacher no more needs to read books and make notes for the classes because all these notes are available all around and more can be had by the giving a suitable and good prompt to the chat GTP. Now, in 21^st century lectures, elaborate slides and a large variety of notes are not required because all this available prepared. learner can summaries, get significant information and the analysis of the same as well. So, what should the classroom do now. Now, the classroom should not be a place for lectures rather it should be a place of open discussion forum under the guidance of the teachers. However, classes based on practical skills are to be done in the laboratories. Similarly, the classes based on research are also to be completed in the research labs. It means that classes which are based on theory are mostly to suffer the burden of artificial intelligence. Although the benefit can be achieved at the level of practical as well as research-based classes by using AI yet most of the time this is the theoretical lecture-based classes which are to bear the burden of AI.

Now what should the authorities of the universities and colleges do? Should they shut down these institutions? No. There is no denying the fact that the teaching methodologies are to be changed as these have evolved throughout the ages. The same thing would be done with these teaching methodologies in the age of artificial intelligence. The classrooms are required to be turned into smart classrooms with a fast Internet connection and the availability of computer screens for each and every student or the tablets or laptops in the classroom so that they can navigate the Internet in order to find the answers to their questions and the solutions of their problems with the help of AI. On the other hand, the teachers need to be trained so that they are well versed in the art of computing as well as using artificial intelligence so that they can guide their students perfectly in order to achieve targeted education. The teachers must be able to provide knowledge about the prompt-giving skills of the student so that the right question can be put and the right answer can be obtained. Once the students have given prompts to AI to obtain the answers to their queries as well as to their problems, all these should be connected in order to discuss them one by one. The discussion would evolve into ultimately final opinion which may be broadly based on the topic and that can be discussed even more to achieve a consensus. Once the consensus is achieved the students would be required to undergo a kind of creative activity so that one may be able to generate a similar kind of situation which was under debate or under focus. Finally, the teacher should come forward to provide his own opinion about the knowledge shared and generated so that the students may also find it feasible to follow the same knowledge.

The goal of achieving the highest level of knowledge with the help of artificial intelligence cannot be realized unless we provide our students with the required tools or computers and a fast Internet connection which is most of the time not possible everywhere. For example, we have seen that in certain areas the Internet connection or connectivity is very poor, and buying internet related tools becomes difficult. In such a situation the digital divide happens to exist between the countries who have such facilities and the countries who do not have such facilities. Pakistan is one such country where although a lot of progress has been made in the field of computer science and information technology but still much more must be done in the far-flung areas of Pakistan. That digital divide won't enable all Pakistan students to achieve the level of efficiency and proficiency in the uses of artificial intelligence. So, a hybrid type of education system can be made available or can be used in order to access the knowledge created and generated by the internet through artificial intelligence. This can be done by holding the class in person for 3 days a week and the remaining half of the time may be used by all the required people for learning with the help of artificial intelligence. This however should be taken as a temporary arrangement because ultimately the countries like Pakistan have also to shift to such type of coaching, teaching and management of classroom where artificial intelligence should be playing its role because we must go with the world. We cannot deny going with the world and that is why it would be always up to some extent necessary that we also employ artificial intelligence in our classrooms without fail.