How Artificial Intelligence Can Support Online Learning

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Time Management and Note Taking

Efficiently managing your time is crucial for staying on top of due dates and keeping students from feeling overwhelmed. General AI tools can help prioritize tasks by creating a timetable or priority list to follow or even become your timer for study sessions. If you hit a snag, it can easily reconfigure your schedule or offer tips for staying on track.

Note taking and management apps like Evernote can help centralize multiple parts of the school day at once. It can transcribe audio and video, making it great for lectures,  keeping track of documents and links linking to your calendar, and sending you reminders to help you stay focused.

Outlining and Writing Help

While students should not use AI to write their papers, it can be used to highlight weak writing and areas of improvement.

Tools like Grammarly or Copilot in Microsoft Word are great for tightening writing skills in a lot of different ways. It can highlight spelling and grammatical fixes, help keep tone consistent, or identify when writing is overly wordy or informal. Keeping track of what areas are consistently highlighted then learning from what it suggests is a great way to utilize this tool to become a stronger, clearer writer. 

Math Help

You might know the feeling of being asked by your student to help with math homework only to feel your blood run cold. AI study tools like Mathway let you type a problem in and then review step-by-step instructions on how to arrive at the answers for many branches of math like algebra, calculus, or graphing. They even have options for other subjects like chemistry and physics. Other apps like Photomath (which is available on the App Store and Google Play) allow you to take a photo of your own handwritten problems to get help. 

Much like Grammarly, looking at where students run into difficulties with problems can help highlight where they might need to spend more time reviewing. 

Citation and Table Building

As students get older and have to follow citation rules for papers and projects, AI can keep track of sources for them while they do their research. Tools like Zotero can be added as an extension to your browser and let your student collect and tag sources as they work through the research process. It can also sync across multiple devices so they always have access to what they need and suggest related articles to help them in their search. EasyBib can automatically generate citations for different sources in multiple styles, create inline citations, and automatically compile bibliographies to keep things organized. It also has a built-in writing assistant, MLA formatter, and plagiarism checker. 

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