Green parliamentary group leader calls for the use of AI in schools
Every pupil's dream: hold the smartphone over the equation and the math problem is solved. Green parliamentary leader advocates for AI in schools for tutoring.
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In order to support children and young people with their homework or to catch up on learning gaps, Green Party parliamentary group leader Andreas Schwarz is calling for the use of AI tutors at schools in Baden-Württemberg. "I am convinced that an AI-based tool on a cell phone can be a good-personalized multimedia tutor," Schwarz told the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. We want children to become fitter again in reading, writing and arithmetic. This requires tailored support, and AI systems are a useful addition to teachers.
No typing for the "voice message generation"
Schwarz believes that the AI tutor should help pupils individually. "I imagine it like this: Pupils take their cell phone, hold it over the tasks, such as a system of equations - and the AI tutor gives hints: Where are you at the moment? What could a solution look like? Where can you find more information?", the Green parliamentary group leader told dpa. Pupils would no longer even have to type, but could talk directly to the AI tutor. "This is an even better way to reach the voice message generation," said Schwarz.
The developer company OpenAI, which is behind the well-known chatbot ChatGPT, showed at the beginning of May that this is not a distant vision. It presented a new version of ChatGPT that allows users to have a conversation with the AI model. In addition to spoken commands, ChatGPT can also process information from a smartphone camera. At the presentation, OpenAI demonstrated how the new model can help solve a math equation, among other things. ChatGPT gave advice on the calculation method by voice without revealing the result. An employee wrote the equation on a piece of paper and pointed the smartphone camera at it. He asked ChatGPT questions verbally - and the software followed his progress via camera.
"AI systems strengthen educational equality"
For Schwarz, the AI tutor would also be a means of providing more support for pupils from less supportive homes. "Studies indicate that these systems strengthen educational equality because particularly weak pupils benefit from them," said the head of the Green parliamentary group in the state parliament. This is because pupils can also be better supported at home. "The AI tutor speaks their language, picks them up at their learning level, helps them to close learning gaps and shows them ways to solve complex tasks."
In the view of the head of the Green parliamentary group in the state parliament, data protection must not stand in the way of the use of such AI tutors. He wants Baden-Württemberg to be at the forefront of such applications nationwide. "The data protection officer should show a way to make this possible," said Schwarz. Digital applications are simply standard in today's world. "Many companies are now working with AI applications. There are even bakers who use AI – saving time, labor and food ingredients. Now we need to find a way to use these helpers in schools too."
The state's data protection officer considers the use of such systems to be possible under certain conditions. "As long as no personal data is transferred, we do not see any data protection problems," said a spokesperson for the authority. This can be achieved through intermediary technical systems, for example.
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"It goes without saying that digital tools are used in the education sector today," said the spokesperson. For example, the Ministry of Education was advised on the plans for the use of "fAIrchat". The chatbot based on ChatGPT is integrated into the Moodle learning management platform. There, students can submit requests to the AI, which then forwards the program to ChatGPT, explained the data protection officer's spokesperson. "We believe this is a viable option for use in the classroom."
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