Harnessing the Power of AI 🤖: Tailoring Education to Individual Learning Styles 🎓

A New Approach to Teaching: Meeting Students Where They Are with Artificial Intelligence

Sam Olliver
6 min readMay 29, 2023

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Classroom full of students using their individual learning styles to grasp the lesson being taught

In my role, I often find myself in a situation where, after explaining a concept, I realise that only half the people have grasped it. It’s not because the other half aren’t switched on, but rather because I’ve not explained it in a way that aligns with how they digest and understand information.

This is a common issue in schools, where lessons are often taught in a chosen method, regardless of whether all students understand or not. I compare it to attempting to explain something in a language someone does not understand. It’s neither fair nor effective.

Despite the many Terminator GIFs I have seen recently (such as this one 👇), I think AI, and specifically ChatGPT, can provide a solution to the issue. It could be the key to tailoring lessons to children’s learning preferences.

Terminator GIF
Source: twilio.com

To demonstrate this, I’ve used ChatGPT to help me modify a lesson plan to help cater to different learning styles. I created a prompt…

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Sam Olliver

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