By By Alli Iyabode Fatima, PhD
Abstract
The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has sent shockwaves through society on both economic and cultural levels. Seemingly poised to become as ubiquitous as email, this rapidly evolving technology is transforming many aspects of teaching nag learning. Due to its growing significance, the writer has research on AI technologies to offer personalized learning guidance and support for individual students in a variety of courses, including engineering, computer science, science education, informatics and philosophy of education and many more. AI technologies have evolved thus far as the writer addressed the promise and challenges they present. The writer maintained that artificial intelligent systems can achieve tasks that are universally associated with human reasoning such as interpreting speech, playing games and identifying patterns. They typically learn how to do so by processing massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model in their own decision-making. In many cases, this work observed that human beings are always in charge of AI‘s learning process, reinforcing good decisions and discouraging bad ones. Thus the Ministry of Education has proposed the inclusion of robotics and artificial intelligence in post basic and secondary education curricula in the academic system to help in standardizing some of the teaching and learning processes aimed at aligning students to 21st century technological advancement so as to improve the educational standards of students which is in line with UNESCO framework. This work also states that when incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into Basic Science Education and curriculum development, despite the numerous advantages it offers, ethical issues should be considered. The work also maintained that when implementing AI-powered assessment systems, it is imperative to take into account the fundamental principles of privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. In Conclusion, there is need to make commitment towards making sure that artificial intelligence technologies is critically looks into before its utilisation on Basic Science Education and curriculum development in Nigerian schools
