Florida State professors are studying the use of AI in education
WFSU breaks down AI in education on our weekly program, Speaking Of.
“I think we’re all trying to figure out still exactly what the future is going to look like with AI,” says Vanessa Dennen, FSU’s Tyner Distinguished Professor of Education. She is researching how AI is being used in educational settings, and she uses it a lot, like figuring out how to modify an assignment for a student with a visual disability.
“It was wonderful because there was an assignment that was focused on having the students create something that was very visual,” Dennen says. “It suggested that I have the student create an audio based project… My brain just wasn’t going there in that moment, and AI was able to give that idea to me in an instant.”
Dennen says she has used AI to plan a vacation. “It was like talking to a travel agent. I gave it my parameters. It did all of this work really quickly and gave me an itinerary,” Dennen says. It even updated her itinerary when she requested a change on a certain day.
Dennen was in Orlando this week with educators from around the country presenting at an AI summit. She was joined by other FSU experts including Paul Marty, a professor of information and the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at FSU.
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