Artificial Intelligence in the classroom: A teacher's assistant or the future of learning?

Artificial intelligence is increasingly changing the way we work, communicate and access information. It is also playing an increasingly important role in education, where it opens up new opportunities for personalised learning, the development of digital competences and support for teachers in their daily pedagogical work.

At a time when the education system is facing a shortage of staff, the rapid development of technologies and the growing need for individualised learning, the issue of the meaningful use of AI in schools is becoming more important than ever.

Artificial intelligence as a support, not a replacement

One of the key thoughts highlighted by Astra AI is that artificial intelligence cannot and should not replace a teacher. Its role is mainly to help teachers adapt the learning process to the individual learner and to provide additional support in learning.

Astra AI believes that the future of education lies in personal excellence, not mass mediocrity. Teachers remain key drivers of the education process, and AI can act as an assistant to enable more personalised, dxostopian and effective learning.

The first personalized AI tutor in Slovenia

Astra AI is the first personalized AI tutor in Slovenia, designed to support students in learning various subjects. The system allows for individualised assistance tailored to the individual's knowledge and promotes understanding of the substance rather than just finding the right answers.

A peculiarity of the platform is also the use of the so-called Socratic approach, in which artificial intelligence guides the student through the process of thinking and encourages him to independently solve tasks with questions. Instead of providing only a solution, it guides him to understand the concepts and logic behind each task.

Free access for teachers

In order to promote the responsible and meaningful use of AI in education, Astra AI provides free access to the platform to all teachers, professors and educational professionals. In this way, teachers themselves can test the possibilities of using AI in teaching and offer additional support to their students in their learning.

According to the platform, more than 1,500 free accesses have been made available to teachers to date.

The process of gaining access is simple:

1. The teacher creates a free user account with a work e-mail address.
2. Sends a message to info@astra.si with a request for free access.
3. Receives one year free access to Astra AI Plus.

The future of education will be based on cooperation

The development of AI opens up many opportunities to improve the learning process, but the future of education will not be based on teacher choice or AI. Those systems that will be successful will be those that will be able to integrate teachers' expertise, technological possibilities and learners' needs.

AI can help individualise learning, explain more complex content and access knowledge, but it remains the teacher who develops critical thinking, stimulates curiosity and creates learning environments in which students can progress.

This is why it is important for teachers to get to know, understand and use new technologies as a tool to improve the learning process. The digital future of education will not be built without teachers, but together with them.

More information about the platform itself can be found at the following link: Astra AI

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