Why the literacy of AI in education becomes critical

We are talking a lot about how companies are dealing with the integration of generating AI in their processes. It is neither easy nor simple. However, it is not only companies faced with a significant change in their operations. The education market is faced with just as difficult and According to recent hundred -year -old researchA global company from Edtech, many take up the challenge.

The pandemic affected many people and children at school were no exception. According to Darren Person, Digital Director of CANGUG Group, students and educators have experienced difficulties through the changes that should take place, going to online education and the use of technology so that they did not need before.

Today, we have a hybrid style of teaching and learning that can sometimes be embarrassing. In addition, everyone is approaching it differently. The question of CANGUGE has become: “How to bring technology to the foreground of education?” ‘

Over the past two years, the cabinet has conducted research with administrators, teachers and students in K12 and higher education, by coinciding with the time when Chatgpt first drew attention. The company wanted to understand how the teachers and the administration thought, explains Kim Russell, vice-president of the UX, the market and research on products.

Russell observes that if the change does not often occur in education, in particular in higher education, this occurs today at a rapid rate, and the use, the implementation and the positive perceptions observed around the AI ​​now resemble nothing that they have ever seen.

In fact, according to research, which interviewed 3,000 students and higher education establishments and 1,000 administrators and teachers from kindergarten to 12th year, the perception of AI is developing positively. For higher education, 45% of respondents had a positive perception of technology, compared to 28% in 2025. For kindergarten in the 12th year, 55% of teachers and 76% of administrators positively received the AI ​​generation. In addition, 63% of kindergarten teachers in the 12th year and 49% of higher education instructors incorporated generative AI technology in their teaching and learning processes.

From no to all-in

When generative AI emerged, the first response from higher education and kindergarten to the 12th year was not to use it. Professors and administrators have trouble with the changes to be made and how. However, telling students not to use it was easier to say than to do, and many used it in one way or another. If you turn it off, students shoot it down, even if it is not punished, suggests to the person.

Students use Gen Ai today. 65% of higher education students think they know more about AI than their instructors. According to the study, there are intelligent use cases, in particular:

• Summary of complicated concepts (67%)
• Generation of writing assignment ideas (61%)
• Creation of study equipment (55%)

That said, what is the best way for Edtech products to implement Gen Ai? When Canguage began to consider how to integrate the AI ​​generation into its ecosystem, the emphasis was put on using it as assistant to teachers and students rather than providing them with answers, like other online resources like Chegg. Person explains:

I think that when we educate teachers, rather than making your students do it uncontrolled it, where they will simply get the answer to the question, if you allow this and encourage them to use this tool, one, we think that this will lead to better learning, but, two, it will really force them to learn the material and come to the answer themselves.

Higher education teachers are Indeed incorporating the AI ​​generation into their own processes. For example:

• Creation of the content of the course and student -oriented equipment (45%)
• Quiz and assessments (39%)
• Assistance to the lesson plan (42%)
• Course support (42%)

This is only the beginning of how generative AI can help. The cases of use of additional AI identified in the study included:

• Support for language learners (63%)
• Identify cheating (57%)
• Personalized learning and instruction (52%)
• Complete administrative tasks (55%)

How to include generative AI in its products

Many Edtech companies, such as many technology suppliers from other industries, have just slapped a generative AI in addition to their existing products. Canguage didn't want to do that. The person says:

We do not take the ChatPPT and do not simply spray it on our products, but we adopt a methodical approach to make sure that the tool, as we implement it, is useful and not envisaged to cheat by the teacher or to disturb the education process, but to activate it and help it accelerate.

What the company has chosen to do instead is to train the LLM (large language model) on their textbooks, rather than on the Internet. There were also experts in the matter, teachers and students training the LLM on how to engage a student through a problem without ever giving them the answer.

Russell spoke about the company's tutoring strategy, noting that there are many constraints concerning effective tutoring, such as location and hours. CANGRA provides a tool that creates personalized learning for a student when and where he needs it. The team entered the tutoring space because it was the biggest challenge that the instructors were confronted, and it was important to unlock more human time with their students, she says:

We really want to understand what their goals are and what they are trying to achieve, and when we understand what it is, then we can suggest the best way to use them (Gen Ai). You know, at the base, we are a learning business, and so we never want to force this, that's how you have to do it. Let’s understand what you are trying to do.

The person agrees:

Today, if you think of a teacher in a class, class sizes become larger. They get more sections that they must teach, are very difficult to have a tête-à-tête conversation with the students, but if we can use this technology, start identifying students who need additional attention or about to fight and talk to the student, but on what we can do for teachers, but what we can do in difficulty and then offer the motivation of the teacher … (…) Motivation for the professor … Industry has been aspired for so long, which is this concept of personalized learning. I think it is finally the point of being able to keep this promise.

My point of view

I have two children in higher education, and none of their schools authorizes a generative AI at that time. But I know that students use it. It is the same story as we see in B2B; People will use it, sanctioned or not. Identify the means to use Gen Ai much better than let them go wild?

A final statistic of the study stood out as a critic: 85% of students believe that AI skills are important for future employment. They are right. The school is to equip children with the skills they need to enter the job market and succeed. AI is now one of these skills. In all areas of B2B and coding, it is an expected competence.

I think the person sums it up well:

We have to equip learners to use these tools ethically, responsible and improved, and now we are starting to see these changes on the market.