AI is quickly becoming a key part of numerous industries, including the world of education. As technology advances, AI has the power to revolutionize the way teachers teach, students learn, and schools work12. This includes personalized learning experiences, administrative tasks, and more. While there are benefits, there are also some troubling aspects of AI in education. What happens regarding plagiarism? What about it being used for creative processes in art classes? How about its use in math and science calculations? Should students be able to use AI tools to solve them? In this article, we'll explore how AI is currently and will be used in schools. It will also look into ethical issues and how it will be integrated with traditional education34.

AI is already playing a role in reshaping the educational landscape to make it more engaging, personalized, and even efficient. Adaptive learning platforms can use AI algorithms to look closely at each student's performance and learning styles12. This paves the way for personalized instruction that will help a student grow into their full potential. Instead of all students receiving the same assignments, tests, and exercises, they can be provided with material that will push them to excel and keep them passionate about learning3. This is especially important for extra-large classrooms, where it's easy for students to get lost in the mix. AI can help with administrative tasks that can help teachers find more time to focus on what they do best: teaching and mentoring4. There are current AI models that are being created to help teachers grade papers, create innovative lesson plans, and easily manage student data5. It can also help them pinpoint exactly how a student needs to be helped and mentored. Not to mention, they can help foster critical thinking skills to new heights. Also, virtual teaching assistants and AI chatbots can be used to help aid students and answer questions surrounding homework assignments6. This is most important where repetitive inquiries need answering, so teachers can focus on the more important facets of instruction.

The potential benefits of AI in schools range from administrative help to teachers and students working more seamlessly together, including:

Personalized Learning
This is one of the most promising benefits of AI in the educational realm. AI can help create individualized learning paths based on each student's needs.12

For example, a student struggling in chemistry may be provided additional information, tutoring, and practice problems to help them progress, stay motivated, and progress at their own pace.

Increased Efficiency for Teachers
AI can significantly reduce the administrative burden on teachers by automating tasks such as grading, attendance tracking, and scheduling. Tools like automated essay grading systems can evaluate written assignments quickly and provide instant feedback, allowing teachers to focus on providing qualitative feedback rather than spending hours grading.34 This improved efficiency can also extend to resource management, where AI systems can recommend teaching materials, plan lessons, and even create assessments tailored to the curriculum.

Data-Driven Insights
AI's power lies in its ability to process huge amounts of data, which can be used to provide insights that have never been offered before. This can help students who get lost, find the help they need while pinpointing the exact areas of need they have at any given time.5 The analytics output can also help teachers and school systems understand the effectiveness of everything from curriculums to testing practices, to educational technologies. This will allow them to keep re-tuning their approaches to education while helping students evolve beyond all expectations.

Improved Accessibility
AI-driven tools can help remove barriers to education and make learning more accessible for all students—especially those with disabilities.12 A perfect example is where AI transcriptions are concerned. Text-to-speech programs can help students with visual impairments and provide multilingual support to non-native speakers.

While AI offers numerous advantages, it comes with its challenges and ethical issues, one of the key issues is data privacy. While AI systems can gather massive amounts of data from students, including their learning styles, challenges, and triumphs, schools must make sure that the data collected is secure or risk legal challenges12. Also, if AI algorithms aren't carefully designed, they could perpetuate biases and inequalities that could lead to student groups being treated unfairly23.

Plagiarism Detection and Prevention
Unsurprisingly, the rise of AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT has teachers and administrators terrified about the prospects of plagiarism. The tools can create essays, solve science and math problems, and more. Thus, schools are creating strategies to help detect plagiarism, including the use of Grammarly, Zero-GPT, and Turnitin. They can compare a student's work against AI-derived content to understand how much of their work has been written by AI and how much they've written themselves4.

Over-Reliance on AI
Another key challenge is over-reliance on AI. While AI can automate many aspects of both teaching and learning, it simply can't replace human thought3. Also, teachers must not lose connection with their students. Their role must be to continue to inspire them, rather than push them off into an AI-driven learning environment25.

As AI grows its presence in the classroom, there must be a deep discussion across the country and around the world as to what aspects of AI will help and which will hurt students, teachers, and school systems. What type of learning process do we all want to grow? With AI being an important part of the world as we know it, how much do students need to leverage it? Should they learn how to write AI-driven articles and make them their own? Should they lean on AI to help them solve equations? One of the biggest risks surrounding the rise of AI in the school system is that human beings may just stop thinking critically. What happens if our kids don't know how to write a paper from scratch or run a math equation on their own? Should we just accept this as a part of our future world?12 With this new reality, schools will need to adjust their policies, while working to inspire ethical use of AI.34

As the role of AI in education grows, students, teachers, and schools will become much more engaged in offering personalized learning for students. The supreme hope is that by doing this, students won't get lost in the system and will be more able to amplify their strengths and address their weaknesses.12 Of course, AI comes with drawbacks and ethical concerns, which must inspire a deeper discussion as to how it should all work.34 By addressing these challenges, the world of education can create a brighter and more fascinating educational experience for all.56