The Impact of AI on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have become essential to education in the current scenario. Perceived as the mythical Frankenstein, it has emerged as a tool to enhance the students' learning experience. This paper aims to delineate the graph of AI from its inception to its transformative potential in augmenting processes across diverse areas. Education is one of the key sectors which AI has hugely impacted. There are speculations that it could erode the critical thinking faculties of the learners and hurt ethical values, but it is now an unavoidable necessity. The paper examines how AI can be integrated into the classroom to reinforce learning, creativity, and imagination. It explores how the challenges posed by AI can be overcome, which will facilitate the planning of the classes, carrying out administrative responsibilities and developing innovative pedagogical practices. This qualitative research relies heavily on recent published literature in books, journals, and policy documents issued by Niti Aayog in India. The article deduced that technology-driven teaching is the future of education, and AI literacy and knowledge by teachers can help leverage its unprecedented potential and minimise its challenges and threats to construct a more democratic, inclusive, research and activity-based approach to education.