{"id":2001,"date":"2023-03-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/03\/28\/exploring-new-opportunities-with-ai-in-education\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:32:01","slug":"exploring-new-opportunities-with-ai-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/03\/exploring-new-opportunities-with-ai-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring new opportunities with AI in education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In schools around the world, education leaders, educators, and students are exploring the power of AI to save time, personalize learning, and increase the efficiency of their operations. Although AI has already been used to boost inclusivity and productivity, recent advancements offer the opportunity to reimagine solutions to longstanding challenges in education at a time when they are perhaps needed most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe potential for AI to extend and scale the work of educators is encouraging. We find ourselves accelerated into a digitally transformed world of education, riding on a pandemic-fueled evolution of innovation. When thoughtfully leveraged, this places AI in a unique and powerful position to help us address challenges we face around ensuring equitable access to education.\u201d<\/p>\nDr. Jose L. Dotres, Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
At Microsoft Education, we are focused on three critical areas: empowering our customers to bring their visions to life, enhancing the value we can provide through Microsoft products, and deeply partnering with the education community to responsibly solve some of the most pressing challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Empowering schools around the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Education organizations are dreaming up ways to responsibly integrate AI tools into teaching and learning and finding that many of these dreams are quickly becoming reality. For example, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education set out to evaluate the impact of AI and quickly identified opportunities for integration within their education system. We are excited to partner with them to develop their virtual learning assistants through Azure OpenAI Service<\/a>, and assist them in their efforts to equip students with the necessary skills to utilize AI in their academic and professional careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe future holds numerous opportunities and challenges, and as a Ministry of Education, we are keen to benefit from the opportunities and confront any challenges. We believe that integrating AI within our educational system and harnessing modern and cutting-edge technologies is key to improving the quality of education and equipping our future leaders with the skills they need to flourish in an ever-evolving world. Our partnership with Microsoft to build an AI tutor is another step in our ongoing efforts to enhance the learning experience of our students. We will continue working shoulder to shoulder with our partners to contribute to driving the future of education.\u201d<\/p>\nUnited Arab Emirates Ministry of Education<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
It is inspiring to enable schools, our partners<\/a>, and education technology providers to maximize the transformative potential of AI in a variety of ways, such as developing new learning tools, providing an aid for creating content, building AI literacy, improving student services, simplifying scheduling, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enhancing Microsoft products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
At our Reimagine Education<\/a> event last month, we shared examples of schools that are leveraging Learning Accelerators<\/a> to improve learning outcomes and save classroom time. Since then, we have been hard at work across the company to reinvent the tools people use every day. We\u2019ve been thrilled to share the new Bing and Edge<\/a>, Copilot in Power Platform<\/a>, and a whole new way to work with Microsoft 365 Copilot<\/a>. These launches have the potential to redefine the way technology can support us in work, life, and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today we are sharing a preview of passage generation, one of the many ways we plan to support educators by embedding AI technology into our products. Within Reading Progress<\/a>, passage generation reviews data from Education Insights<\/a> to help create personalized reading passages based on words or phonics rules a class or specific student found most challenging. Educators can customize the passage by selecting suggested practice words, generating options, and then publishing their passage as a new reading assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n