While AI is already making life easier for many people worldwide, what’s the status of its use in schools? Last year’s report by the European Commission, The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learning, Teaching, and Education, notes: “AI could make some functions of education obsolete and emphasis others. It may also enable new ways of teaching and learning.”
虽然世界范围内，人工智能已经让人们的生活更方便，但它在学校的使用情况如何？欧盟委员会去年的报告《人工智能对学习、教学和教育的影响》中指出：人工智能可能会使教育的某些功能变得过时，但同时它能引入新的功能，并促成新的教学和学习方式。
Improving students’ comprehension and access to materials增强学生的理解能力，增加获取资料的途径
According to Microsoft, Presentation Translator “is a free plugin for PowerPoint that creates real-time subtitles of what the teacher is saying, displaying them below the presentation.” It provides live transcripts of a teacher’s lectures in several languages, including English, and enables deaf or hard of hearing students and language learners to follow and participate in group discussions using gadgets such as a personal computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
据微软称，汇报翻译是“PowerPoint的免费插件，它可以创建汇报者所说内容的实时字幕，并在演示文稿下方显示”。它提供包括英语在内的教师课堂多语种实时笔录，使聋哑或听力有困难的学生和语言学习者能够使用个人电脑、笔记本电脑、平板电脑或智能手机等小工具跟上学习进度并参与学习讨论。
AI tutoring systems人工智能辅导系统
The use of AI tutoring systems involves engaging students in a conversation and providing feedback in areas they need help with. One such example is the Watson Tutor by IBM. The Watson Tutor is an intelligent tutoring system that engages in personalised conversations with students, giving feedback to educators to help them understand where or what they should focus on with each student.
人工智能辅导系统能让学生参与对话讨论，并在他们需要帮助的领域提供反馈。IBM的 Watson导师就是这样一个例子：Watson是一个智能辅导系统，能与学生个性化对话并向教育工作者反馈，帮助他们了解每个学生应该格外关注的地方。
Writing and plagiarism tools写作与抄袭工具
While there’s a long way to go before AI will be able to generate more complicated articles without the help of humans in the future, AI has already proven useful as an online editor and plagiarism checker. For example, Grammarly acts as an online editor that not only corrects grammar, but also offers suggestions for sentences and plagiarism checks. When used responsibly, this tool can act as a useful way for students to learn to craft better sentences in school and beyond.
虽然人工智能距离没有人类帮助就能生成复杂文章的状态还有很长的路要走，但人工智能已经被证明是一个有用的在线编辑和抄袭检查工具。比如Grammarly是一个在线编辑工具，不仅能纠正语法，还提供句子和抄袭检查的参考意见。当用于正途，这是一个能帮助学生更好造句的工具。
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