Tech Use Surges Under COVID-19: Where Does Artificial Intelligence Fit In?
May 20, 2020
This report is the final installment in a series of three special reports for the 2019-20 school year that Education Week is producing for K-12 ed-tech leaders. The report examines how artificial intelligence is currently being used in schools and how the surge in tech use during the COVID-19 school building closures might affect the use of AI once school buildings reopen; important lessons the K-12 system can learn about AI use from the health care, military, and higher education sectors; and perspectives on the upsides and downsides of expanding the use of artificial intelligence in schools.
Sectors of our economy such as the military, health care, and higher education are much further along than the K-12 system in using artificial intelligence.
Experts think artificial intelligence could help people do all sorts of things over the next couple of decades: power self-driving cars, cure cancer, and yes, transform K-12 education.
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