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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
Today is the last session and the first face-to-face of a training through which the URJC has offered the keys to the main tools and methods used by Artificial Intelligence and its educational applications.
Its manager is the ETSIT professor, Gregorio Robles, who will put a face to many of his students who for several weeks have only had interaction online. The course has had a total of 180 people enrolled.
This last session is the culmination of the course and will serve as a meeting between students and teachers and it is also expected that educational managers from the Community of Madrid, a collaborator of the course, will participate.
During the cycle, Robles points out, "we have proposed activities that, generally, have been executed in a different way, we try to provoke the students, in addition to learning, to develop critical thinking."
As Robles indicates, through AI, "the machine looks for patterns" thus, Artificial Intelligence can be applied to learn the Hellenic orders from photos of columns from ancient Greece. Likewise, to identify and differentiate texts by authors such as Quevedo or Góngora, who coincided in time.
Strange as it may seem, mathematics, Robles comments, is more difficult to work from this point of view, "because we are used to 100% of the result and the AI does not ensure that total accuracy."
Theory and practice
The course has provided an introduction and a series of contents on Artificial Intelligence from the theoretical point of view to later address examples of activities. The final work is the design and realization of a didactic activity using AI in class. As Gregorio Robles states, “in the course the use of these tools in the classroom is told from his own experience. The students -teachers- are the engine of this because they give us the experience”.
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly present in society and offers possibilities in various fields of human activity, "the next few years are going to be very interesting because we are going to experience the explosion of AI", says the professor. With this course, a good number of Madrid teachers already know something more about a technology that can change the way of teaching forever.