Using AI in Education

By now many educators understand that AI can deliver real-time personalized feedback on assignments, monitor student progress, and both recommend and create educational content and subject topics for many areas within the curriculum. Helping teachers get their jobs done is one of the most concrete examples of how artificial intelligence continues to impact education. Whether you are new to the AI scene or are using it already in your setting, we'll explore the most current state of AI in education. We'll also work through a variety of AI-based education sites as we learn how to leverage AI to lighten your teaching load allowing you to be more effective in the classroom.

Michael Plocher,  MS Ed – Educational Technology, is a middle school STEM educator and director of technology at St. Paul Lutheran School – New Ulm MN. He has been an adjunct instructor at Martin Luther College where he taught the education course Teaching with Technology. He promotes the need for STEM education in schools and is an advisory team member of the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) which has a goal of adding more tech jobs in rural America.