Using AI to create individualized Instruction

21st Century International Schools use AI to create individualized instruction. Using AI to create new curriculum and enhance your current curriculum should be a part of transitioning to an individualized curriculum and individualized instruction for 21C schools

Artificial Intelligence (AI) s now a part of educators lives and the lives of our students. Like any new technology that is available in this 21st Century, we have to learn it and know how to use it first before we can apply it.

We have to be able to learn it well enough to be able to apply it to the real world of student instruction and education. Individualized instruction is a real possibility now for classrooms with 8 students or 28 students or 88 students.

As an example of an individualized instruction for a 15 year old student , we created a biology curriculum that included various units including units such as an introduction to Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Evolution, Ecology, Physiology, Biotechnology, and current topics in Biology.

We included materials and resources that are available readily via the internet and digital media such as "The Dynamics of Life" by Glencoe Science. We also use evolution educational games and simulations, our students conduct fieldwork to observe local ecosystems. We expose our students to online TED talks on biology and biotechnology. Students learn best when they have to explain what they have learned, therefore we schedule student-led presentations and discussions to evaluate their knowledge and communication skills.

We assign out of the classroom projects such as visits to science museums, nature reserves and attending guests lectures.

Our assessments are periodic to make sure we track student advancement in their knowledge, Project based assessment is a part of the student's deeper learning assessment.

Many of the above is probably being followed by biology educators already, but what is new is that the student gets a comprehensive approach outside and inside the classroom and it incorporates real world applications, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving and collaboration.

All this using out of the classroom and the world as a laboratory, and students can now learn in probably a fraction of the time that it took me to learn the above when I was in school.

Back then in the 20th century, I had to attend hours of classroom lectures, trips to the library to check out books, trips to take the books home, study them, and a final trip to return the books. Remember we had no internet or smart phones or AI. Education and access to technologies and materials has dramatically evolved on this 21st century.

We now have all this in our pockets and can access these in a matter of minutes.

We still have to have a coach, teacher, educator, mentor, human, or whatever we want to call them that will guide the 15 year old student through the right path.

Robots are definitely not humans.

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