人工智能与教育:本质探析和未来挑战

Artificial Intelligence and Education:Digging Beneath the Surface

当前,虽然有研究人员认为人工智能将重塑教育,关于人工智能教育的研究也日益受到关注和重视,但是人工智能在教育中的应用仍存在“炒作”现象,一些乐观看法还亟待商榷,一些关键问题还需要探析和解决。为此,文章首先探讨了人工智能的定义,提出人工智能本质上应同时考虑其技术维度和人的维度;然后进一步分析人工智能与教育的关系,并从人工智能教育与教学法,伦理,儿童权益,个性化,节约教师时间,智能、效能和影响,技术解方主义,教育商业化,殖民主义,信任等十个方面,思考人工智能教育表象下存在的问题。据此提出,虽然人们已经意识到教育中人工智能伦理和人本主义等问题的重要性,但由于人工智能的发展方向受科技巨头企业的控制,这些问题的解决还有很长的路要走。文章希望通过对人工智能教育本质的探讨,促使更多研究者和实践者不只关注人工智能教育的表面价值,更要去发现、思考和应对正在出现和仍然未知的挑战。

It has been proposed that artificial intelligence will reshape education,and therefore the research and application of artificial intelligence in education have drawn increasing attention.However,the exaggeration of AI’s application in education still exists,and some optimistic conceptions still need reconsideration,and some key issues remain to be discussed and solved.In this case,this paper first discusses the definition of artificial intelligence,and proposes that artificial intelligence should consider both its technical dimension and human dimension.On this basis,the paper further analyzes the relationship between AI and education,and explores the perspectives of AI education and pedagogy,ethics,human rights,personalisation,saving teacher time,intelligence,efficacy and impact,techno-solutionism,commercialisation of education,colonialism,trust,etc.,which are digging beneath the surface of artificial intelligence in education.While people are aware of important issues such as AI ethics and humanism in education,the resolution is still a long way off as the direction of AI development is controlled by the tech giants.By discussing the essence of artificial intelligence in education,this paper hopes to encourage more researchers and practitioners not only to pay attention to the surface value of artificial intelligence in education,but also to discover,think about and respond to emerging and still unknown challenges.