Using AI to reduce teacher workload with TeachMate

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Using AI to reduce teacher workload with TeachMateAI

Reducing teacher workload using

FÉARGHAL McMULLAN

Senior Teacher for Teaching & Learning at St Ciaran's College

Thrive with AI

• AI  - enabled by rapid digital transformation during the pandemic. 
• AI helps with productivity - it changes how things are done!
• "More than half of teacher's job involves specialised skills and people skills that need to be performed by humans, like classroom management and differentiating instruction... but 45% of teacher skills support tasks where AI could enable greater productivity such as lesson planning and curriculum development."                                      _{Future of Work Report, 2023}

AI in Education

• AI is radical change - but it is here to stay!
• Technology can help relieve teacher pressure of work that is not directly related to working with pupils. 

Global impact of AI in Education

• AI is not regulated! 
• Digital citizenship - teaching ethical principles using digital technology - young people trusting what they read and see online
• Tooling young people to be responsible users of AI

Governments made a mistake when social media arrived - they cannot afford to do the same with AI. 

We can't just ban the technology - instead it is important and essential that young learn to live with it and utilise it in a positive way. 

Reducing workload with technology

• Mr P - ICT
• One of the current challenges - time spent on tasks that don't impact on teaching and learning! 
• TeachMate - harnesses AI for teachers specifically
• Saves teachers on average 10 hours a week *
• GDPR compliant 
• Over 100 tools available
• What's a teacher's favourite task? ...Writing a risk assessment...use AI ! 
• Teachers need to learn to be able to trust AI when using it. 

Governments made a mistake when social media arrived - they cannot afford to do the same with AI. 

We can't just ban the technology - instead it is important and essential that young learn to live with it and utilise it in a positive way. 

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Have a go to use the character interview - consider at a subject-specific research task for students - enquiry focused - making them think about the type of questions they would ask on a subject that character would have information on.

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How do you think AI will be helpful to reduce your workload?

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