2 . AI can transform education for the better
As students return to classrooms for the new year, it is striking to reflect on how little education has changed in recent decades. The sector remains a digital laggard (落后者). American schools and universities spend 2% and 5% of their budgets, _________, on technology, compared with 8% for the average American company.
When the pandemic forced schools and universities to shut down, the moment for a digital _________ seemed close when the market value of online tutoring providers like Chegg and Byju’s both increased. However, once covid was brought under control, classes continued much as before.
If the pandemic couldn’t overcome the education sector’s _________ to digital interruption, can artificial intelligence? ChatGPT-like generative AI, which can converse cleverly on varieties of subjects, certainly _________. So much so that educationalists began to _________ that students would use it to cheat on essays and homework. Increasingly, however, it is generating excitement as a means to provide _________ tutoring to various students and speed up boring tasks such as marking.
Learners, for their part, are _________ the technology. Two-fifths of undergraduates reported using an AI chatbot to help them with their studies. Indeed, the technology’s popularity has raised awkward questions for companies like Chegg, which was losing customers _________ ChatGPT. Yet there are good reasons to believe that education specialists like Chegg who employ AI will eventually _________ generalists such as OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
For one, AI chatbots often talk nonsense, an unhelpful trait in an educational context. “Students want content from __________ providers,” argues Kate Edwards, chief pedagogist at Pearson, a textbook publisher. The company has not allowed ChatGPT and other AIs to __________ its material, but has instead used the content to train its own models, which it is embedding into its set of learning apps.
__________, as Chegg’s Mr Rosensweig argues, teaching is not merely about giving students an answer, but about presenting it in a way that helps them learn. Understanding pedagogy (教学法) thus gives education specialists an __________. Pearson has designed its AI tools to __________ students by breaking complex topics down, testing their understanding and providing quick feedback, says Ms Edwards. Byju’s is incorporating “forgetting curves” for students into the design of its AI tutoring tools, refreshing their memories at personalized __________.
Bringing AI to education will not be easy, but once answers on how to make use of this technology become clearer, such a development will certainly deserve top marks.
1. A.respectively | B.appropriately | C.totally | D.ultimately |
2. A.divide | B.reverse | C.boom | D.withdrawal |
3. A.tendency | B.resistance | C.attention | D.anxiety |
4. A.serve the purpose | B.break the ice | C.take the initiative | D.do some good |
5. A.maintain | B.panic | C.doubt | D.wonder |
6. A.personalized | B.individualistic | C.characteristic | D.attentive |
7. A.attempting | B.declining | C.opposing | D.embracing |
8. 9. A.detect | B.transform | C.overtake | D.enhance |
10. A.comprehensive | B.advanced | C.distinguished | D.trusted |
11. A.give away | B.take in | C.bring about | D.hold up |
12. A.By contrast | B.Despite this | C.What’s more | D.As a result |
13. A.applause | B.edge | C.hesitation | D.improvement |
14. A.convince | B.engage | C.capture | D.challenge |
15. A.intervals | B.cost | C.mercy | D.best |