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The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge—an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an artificial instructor remains to be seen. That’s why researchers at the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media are working to examine student perceptions of AI-based teachers. Some of their findings, published recently in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction , indicate that for students to accept an AI teaching assistant, it needs to be effective and easy to talk to.
According to Jihyun Kim, the lead author of the study, the hope is that by understanding how students relate to Al-teachers, engineers and computer scientists can design them to easily integrate into the education experience.
“To use machine teachers effectively, we need to understand students’ views on machine teachers, their learning experiences with them and more,” Kim says. “This line of research is needed to design effective machine teachers that can actually facilitate positive learning experiences.”
AI teaching assistants can help ease a teacher's workload, such as by responding to commonly asked questions by students. These questions, which often appear each semester and become numerous in online classes with hundreds of students, can become a large task for a teacher. The quick delivery of answers also helps students.
An example of an AI teaching assistant is one named Jill Watson that was created by a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jill was fed the thousands of questions and answers commonly asked in the researcher’s online class that he’d taught over the years. With some additional learning and adjustments, Jill was eventually able to answer the students’ commonly asked questions accurately without any human assistance as if she was one of the researcher’s human teaching assistants.
“I hope our research findings help us find an effective way to incorporate AI agents into education,” Kim says. “By adopting an AI agent as an assistant for a simple and repetitive task, teachers would be able to have more things scheduled such as meeting with students and developing teaching strategies.”
1 . What kind of AI teaching assistants can students easily accept?
2 . What do researchers need to do to design effective AI teaching assistants?
3 . Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
With the help of Al-based teaching assistants, human teachers can not only be relieved from heavy work but also have more time to answer commonly asked questions by students.
4 . Explain how AI technology can be used in a different field in our life. ( about 40 words )
1 . Ones that are effective and easy to talk to.
2 . They need to understand students' views on machine teachers, their learning experiences with them and more.
3 . According to the passage, it is the AI-based teaching assistants rather than teachers that can answer commonly asked questions by students.
4 . AI is widely used in the field of transportation. Using AI, the navigation systems in cars and on cellphones are able to recommend the best routes based on real time traffic data. Also, AI can be used to make self-driving vehicles more convenient and much safer.
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本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了研究人员通过调查设计出有效的机器教师,将人工智能融入教育。
1 .考查细节理解。根据第一段 “Some of their findings, published recently in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, indicate that for students to accept an AI teaching assistant, it needs to be effective and easy to talk to. (最近发表在《国际人机交互杂志》上的一些研究结果表明,要让学生接受人工智能教学助手,它必须是有效且容易交谈的。) ” 可知,那些有效且容易沟通的人工智能助教能让学生轻松接受。故答案为 Ones that are effective and easy to talk to.
2 .考查细节理解。根据第三段该研究的主要作者 Kim 说的话 “To use machine teachers effectively, we need to understand students’ views on machine teachers, their learning experiences with them and more (为了有效地使用机器教师,我们需要了解学生对机器教师的看法,他们与机器教师的学习经验,以及更多) ” 可知,研究人员需要了解学生对机器教师的看法,他们的学习经验和更多才能设计出有效的人工智能教学助手。故答案为: They need to understand students' views on machine teachers, their learning experiences with them and more.
3 .考查细节理解。根据第五段 “AI teaching assistants can help ease a teacher's workload, such as by responding to commonly asked questions by students. (人工智能助教可以帮助减轻老师的工作量,比如回答学生常见的问题。) ” 可知,可以回答学生常见问题的是基于人工智能的教学助手,而不是教师。故答案为:
According to the passage, it is the AI-based teaching assistants rather than teachers that can answer commonly asked questions by students.
4 .开放题。考生可自由发挥。本文讲述了人工智能在教育方面的渗入,这题要求考生描述人工智能技术是如何应用于我们生活的不同领域的,可从我们衣食住行各方面着手,言之有理即可。样例为 AI is widely used in the field of transportation. Using AI, the navigation systems in cars and on cellphones are able to recommend the best routes based on real time traffic data. Also, AI can be used to make self-driving vehicles more convenient and much safer.