Explainable AI is essential in education
Edtech adoption in our schools has increased during the pandemic, and if reports are to be believed, the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has steadily increased too. This is largely a positive development, but do principals and teachers really understand the technology? AI is often adaptive and self-learning, which means that what it already understands about a learner will lead it to draw certain conclusions about that learner's future needs. As more schools use AI-powered technologies, it becomes more important that teachers understand how technology makes decisions. Teachers need to understand not only what a child has learned, but also how they have learned it. For this to be possible, AI-enabled technology vendors need to explain how to choose a particular course of action. For example, AI teaching a foreign language might advise you to revise some words more often than others based on data on the words you forgot the fastest. AI ambiguity It can be diff