Educators should leverage AI for an educational transformation
If you are reading this article, it’s likely you had at least one great tutor at some stage in your education. Not everyone has the fortune of having access to personalized instruction, guidance and support. Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom found that students receiving one-on-one tutoring perform two standard deviations better than those in traditional classroom settings, equivalent to improving from the 50th to the 98th percentile.
This gap, known as the 2 Sigma Problem, underscores the effectiveness of personalized instruction. However, replicating such individualized attention at scale has been impractical, given our resource constraints. There just aren’t as many good tutors out there, and the best are not always affordable.
But things are changing rapidly. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) offer scalable, personalized and cost-effective alternatives to traditional teaching methods. OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o can provide tailored tutoring, adapting to each student’s learning pace and style, thus emulating the benefits of one-on-one instruction.
This AI model, though still in its infancy, shows the potential to understand and generate human-like text, allowing for an interactive and engaging learning experience. The integration of voice and vision capabilities in AI tools is bridging the human-machine divide, making interactions with AI more natural. Real-time voice interaction in native languages has enhanced accessibility, allowing students to communicate with AI tutors as they would with human instructors.
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