Artificial Intelligence has entered our lives as a friend and tool. We cannot ignore its existence or avoid using it – there’s no point in that. It’s important to master all the possibilities and nuances that this new friend-tool offers and apply it when planning and organizing the educational process.
Like many people, educators and organizers of education have been fighting against IT tools and the internet for years, instead of trying to incorporate it into the learning process as an educational tool. By ignoring and pretending it doesn’t exist, we disconnect education from life, real people, and global developments. Now we’ve reached AI, which is already a reality that we cannot change or delete. So why not learn and apply it?
I am now trying to gradually implement this tool both in everyday life and work to understand its possibilities, dangers, and to develop time-relevant projects and raise questions that won’t allow mechanical copying.
I decided to study available online materials on this topic and turned to AI. It brought many materials, offering me to read them, and ask for more if needed, and also to ask for help if something isn’t clear. I replied that I was writing an article, and it wrote back – good, you’ll put it online, and I’ll use it too. I was happy. I’m presenting a collective bundle of accepted opinions, emphasizing the main points.
- The Role of AI in the Educational Process
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a new tool in education, but a real revolution that can change teaching approaches. Individual learning, which previously required significant human resources, is now made possible by AI by analyzing each student’s needs, preferred learning methods, and progress. For example, the system can see that a learner is having difficulty mastering certain material and suggest additional materials or simplified explanations.
All this helps teachers focus on aspects where their intervention is truly irreplaceable – to inspire, guide, and build trust based on human interaction. In this regard, AI doesn’t replace the teacher but becomes an assistant – the teacher’s right hand, which can automate assessment, analyze student responses, and even predict the risk of failure.
For teachers not to fear these new technologies, appropriate training needs to be implemented – showing how AI makes their work easier, not more complicated.
- Benefits of AI:
AI can:
- improve teaching effectiveness,
- help with individualized learning,
- improve student engagement, assist teachers by reducing daily workload.
Russian studies emphasize that AI also contributes to the development of digital skills even at the school level.
3. Challenges and Ethics
AI promotes the following skills in students:
- digital literacy,
- analytical thinking,
- creativity,
- teamwork.
After reading these sources, various analysts’ opinions, and having my own – though incomplete but certain experience, I think that:
- The Armenian educational system will benefit if AI is viewed as an educational tool and its use is encouraged.
- AI can provide accessibility in rural schools, solve the problem of books and information, and in some cases, mitigate the teacher shortage problem.
- Teacher training through this program will be much more relevant and specific.
- We need to have a clear policy and developed guidelines regarding the use of AI in education.
I consider the implementation and study of AI in the author’s educational program to be a priority and important. AI as a teaching tool corresponds to the fundamental principles and approaches of the author educational program – the Bleyan school, and comes to complement and package them in accordance with the 21st century. These approaches are reflected in our curricula, in the regulations serving the curricula, and in programs, developments, and organization. These are:
- Individual-centered learning
- Project-based learning
- A learner who studies, researches, and makes their own conclusions
- IT as a tool for daily use by the learner
- Revealing student skills and abilities based on individual strengths and personal development characteristics
- Continuous development and self-education of the teacher-author
- Professional and pedagogical development of teachers based on specific individual needs and abilities
- Providing education and work appropriate for 21st century learners and teachers – remote, from a convenient location
- Other.
The 20th May Jubilee gathering of Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex, which we named Fireworks, also brings this topic. Teachers are gradually starting to apply AI, learning many details from students by using the widely used student tutoring pedagogical technique and approach in the educational complex. AI training seminars will already be included in the summer pedagogical camp, and its implementation will be fully incorporated into the 2025-2026 programs and organization.
Used sources:
- AI search system
- World Economic Forum
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Национальный портал ИИ в образовании
- Studies of National Innovative Committee for Educational Development