The advent of GAI holds immense promise for transforming teaching and learning experiences. This implies that educators’ roles and responsibilities in the classroom have changed from that of traditional instructors to facilitators of learning and champions of innovation.
“Educators now need to be able to design meaningful learning and assessment tasks supported by technology, rather than designing tasks surrounding technologies,” Wenli says. “AI’s larger impact is in complementing and augmenting human capabilities, instead of replacing them.”
GAI’s potential to enhance curriculum development and instructional design processes can empower students to engage in self-directed learning, critical thinking, and creative expression, preparing them to thrive in the complex and rapidly evolving digital age.
However, it is also important to note that realising the full potential of generative AI in education requires thoughtful integration, ethical consideration, and ongoing research and development efforts to address technical, pedagogical and societal challenges.
“While human-AI collaboration has been investigated in domains such as healthcare and business, there is limited research on human–AI collaboration in teaching and learning,” Wenli claims. “More research is needed to look into the design, develop and implement human-AI collaboration to help learners use AI in creative, critical, ethical and responsible ways to learn better, deeper
and faster.”
Wenli envisions that with appropriate implementation, GAI can also address wider learning areas from cognitive to social emotional learning, and from content knowledge to 21st century competencies. As Singapore continues to embrace AI-driven innovation in education, the future of learning promises to be more adaptive, inclusive and empowering than ever before.