Artificial Intelligence in education – teacher survey

<h2><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">Artificial Intelligence &lpar;AI&rpar;&comma; also known as Generative AI&comma; is a machine-learning model that creates new content and ideas based on large data sets&period; <&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">Output can include conversation&comma; text&comma; images&comma; video and music&period; It can learn and mimic human speech and art and other complex subject matters&period; Examples include Google’s Gemini&comma; Microsoft’s Co-pilot&comma; OpenAI’s ChatGPT&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;and Dall-e&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">AI has been making waves in education as it becomes more widespread and accessible&period; Now&comma; AI tools are popping up in unexpected places&comma; like Kahoot&excl;&period; The beloved online quiz platform now offers AI generated Kahoot&excl; quizzes based on PDF files&comma; URLs&comma; even Wikipedia pages&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;schoolnews&period;co&period;nz&sol;latest-print-issue&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><b>Read the latest print edition of <em>School News<&sol;em> online HERE&period;<&sol;b><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">AI has been marketed to education as streamlining workflow&comma; personalising learning and more&period; Teachers have reported using AI to generate lesson plans and emails&comma; and students have been caught generating essays with ChatGPT&period; Other uses include AI chatbots aimed at supporting student learning&period; AI can also be used as a study tool&comma; summarising notes and more&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">Yet relying on AI in education isn’t without its risks and flaws&period; Concerns have risen around AI’s tendency to generate nonsensical&comma; inaccurate or misleading content&period; AI has also been trained on data that includes biases&period; Questions also remain about its impacts on how we learn&comma; and ethical issues such as privacy concerns&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">These concerns and more around AI in education have led to this year’s International Day of Education being dedicated to the topic&period; Globally&comma; educators are grappling with what AI means for the sector&comma; how to employ it&comma; and what frameworks to establish around its use&period; Yet while the sector catches up&comma; AI is already being deployed by students and educators alike&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">In New Zealand&comma; although we have official guidelines for AI’s use in the classroom&comma; they have been established relatively recently and research in the field is moving at pace&period;<&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">In our term two edition&comma; <&sol;span><i><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">School News<&sol;span><&sol;i><span data-contrast&equals;"auto"> will be writing a special report on AI in education&comma; and we want your input&period; Whether you use AI regularly&comma; or you’ve never touched it&comma; we want to know how teachers and students are interacting with AI at school and work&period; <&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span data-contrast&equals;"auto">The survey is anonymous&comma; and only takes five minutes&period; We will use responses to generate a snapshot of AI in NZ education&comma; and discuss how the situation may unfold into the future&period;<&sol;span><span data-ccp-props&equals;"&lbrace;&rcub;"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;schoolnews&period;co&period;nz&sol;2025-ai-in-education-survey&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Do you&comma; your students and&sol;or your school use generative AI&quest; Take our anonymous survey here&excl; Results will be used to inform our upcoming term two special report on AI in education&period;<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;