Panelists met to discuss some of the top challenges in education today and how technologies such as artificial intelligence can help K–12 teachers and students in a CDW Education webinar Oct. 8. The event, titled “ Achieving Better Student Outcomes with AI and Interactive Solutions ,” brought together leaders from educational technology partners including Merlyn Mind , Newline Interactive , GoGuardian and Acer . The webinar is one in a series from CDW Education .
Moderator Curtiss Strietelmeier, public sector funding manager at CDW , led the panelists first through a discussion of challenges in today’s classrooms, including teacher burnout, student engagement and digital equity. The conversation then dug deeper into how AI, specifically AI solutions available from the attending partners, could help school districts.
Click the banner to explore artificial intelligence tips and solutions from CDW. Here are some of the challenges and solutions the participants discussed. Teachers Don’t Have Enough Time to Build Lessons and Connections
A frequently recognized challenge for today’s K–12 educators is too having many responsibilities to accomplish in a day.
“Teachers very simply do not feel like they are in control of their world, and that’s result of too many demands, too many distractions, and not enough direction and support,” said Mackey Pendergrast, education strategist for district leadership at GoGuardian.
Jennifer Mari-Wyka, senior manager of product experience at Merlyn Mind, noted that it is important to give teachers the time they need to create connections. “They need time because time means building meaningful relationships with students, which has been proven to directly impact engagement and positive outcomes,” she said.
How can AI solve this challenge? The speakers shared use cases for its application in a few different ways.
Using GoGuardian’s Instant Pear Deck , “A teacher can upload some of their curriculum resources, they can target the standards they want and the AI will actually craft a core lesson in about a minute,” Pendergrast said. “Now, they’ve saved themselves 30 minutes. They can put their own personality into it and their own life into it.”
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