00:00A teacher was saying, what are my three biggest challenges
00:05for this academic year so far?
00:07He said, first one, an essay.
00:09And he showed a picture of the essay.
00:11And his marking on it was, generated from CHAT-GPT.
00:15He said, my second biggest challenge, another essay,
00:19generated from CHAT-GPT.
00:21And you could understand what the third one was.
00:23And he was expressing the frustration
00:28that this is what he has to deal with moving along.
00:33AI has entered the school system,
00:35but not in a formal way.
00:37Now, educators face the task of navigating the education
00:40space in this new reality.
00:43However, Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dawley
00:45says, this should be seen as an opportunity and not a threat.
00:50The fact is, children have been asking
00:52this question for a long time.
00:55If I could find all the information,
00:58why are you asking me to just regurgitate it?
01:00It means that we have to equip our young people to embrace
01:04what is available.
01:07And we have to ensure that they can use it.
01:10But it also means it's not just the student that has to adapt.
01:14It is also the teacher.
01:1721st century learners require 21st century teachers.
01:23And that is an area that we must emphasize.
01:29And we must promote.
01:31And we have to look at how our teachers use AI.
01:35The Education Minister was speaking
01:36at the fourth CXC Ministerial Summit
01:39held on the theme, Artificial Intelligence
01:42and Technological Innovations in Shaping Caribbean Education,
01:46where she spoke to potential benefits of AI
01:49for teaching and learning.
01:51The AI-generated tools that are available for teachers
01:54in the forms of apps and programs and systems
01:58give them a lot more facility with regard
02:02to their routine assignments.
02:04It can help them to analyze what their students are doing.
02:07It can help them with a normal multiple-choice online test
02:12that we were doing years ago.
02:14It can now analyze to a greater degree.
02:18And that is the strength.
02:20CEO of CXC, Dr. Wayne Wesley, suggested
02:24that the employment of AI tools could ultimately
02:26help to improve student performance across the region.
02:30In particular, in one problem area,
02:33he proffered educational gaming tools as an example.
02:37Student needs dynamic interaction.
02:41And AI provides us with that ability
02:45to provide that dynamic interaction that
02:49is adjusting to their level of interest,
02:51adjusting to their level of difficulty,
02:54adjusting to their level of competence,
02:56which is what game does.
02:57As soon as you master one level, what it does?
02:59Take it to another level, and you always
03:02want to just crush that next candy.
03:05Right?
03:06Can you imagine students just want
03:08to know crush that level of mathematics,
03:11crush that next level of algebra,
03:13crush that next level of matrix, crush
03:15that next level of arithmetic?
03:19AI has the potential for us to have
03:22personalized and unique intervention
03:25to transform our education.
03:28While in support, Chairman of CXC, Professor Sir Hilary
03:31Bacchus, issued a word of caution
03:34as he noted that with great power
03:36comes great responsibility.
03:39For us in educational institutions,
03:42this is stimulating.
03:45The UWI, where I work, we are now
03:48working through a framework, a policy perspective,
03:54and we are engaging the entire institution to give us
03:59ideas on how to proceed.
04:02But proceed, we must.
04:06Proceed with care?
04:07Absolutely.
04:09Recognizing the enormous benefits
04:13that are going to be derived, but the need
04:16to extract integrity, truth, accuracy, and quality
04:23from the engagement.
04:26Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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