Chapter 5: Teaching small group of students; emerging products might signal to the teacher when a student or teacher may need some more personal attention. 3. Making teacher professional development more productive and fruitful. Emerging products already enable a teacher to record her classroom and allow an AI algorithm to suggest highlights of the classroom discussion worth reviewing with a professional development coach. AI can compute metrics, such as whether students have been talking more or less, which are difficult for a teacher to calculate during a lesson. For teachers who want to increase student engagement, these metrics can be a valuable tool. Classroom simulation tools are also emerging and can enable teachers to practice their skills in realistic situations. Simulators can include examples of teaching from a real classroom while changing the faces and voices of the participants so that teaching situations can be shared and discussed among teachers without revealing identities. Note the emphasis above on what listening-session panelist Sarah Hampton said about the human touch. Teachers will feel that AI is helping them teach with a focus on their human connection to their students when the necessary (but less meaningful) burdens of teaching are lessened. In Figure 7, below, see concerns that teachers raised about AI during listening sessions. Figure 7: Concerns raised during the listening session about teaching with AI 48 | P a g e
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