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Description
Although the emergence of AI has "revolutionized" education, the ways in which AI is being applied to educational contexts has thus far proven quite limited in scope. In many cases, students are being directed to login to an AI and have some manner of interaction with it, however, these interactions tend to be limited to asking the AI to either provide feedback on student produced content, and/or engage in communicative discourse with the AI (i.e. chat). Critiqued from the perspective of the SAMR model, while such interactions make use of the AI's sophisticated capabilities, they are no more than enhancements (substitutions or augmentations), where one might expect transformations (modifications or redefinitions) to be not only possible, but inevitable. This presentation poses the question of what other kinds of interactions are possible. Several examples of enhancement activities will be given. One is the International Virtual Exchange Project that houses several novel interactions designed to help learners of English from around the world connect and communicate with each other. Also, a work-in-progress build of a self-hosted AI powered "escape-the-cave" interaction designed as a gamified self-study extensive reading activity will be demonstrated.
| Presentation location | In person (Kumamoto) |
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