At Al -Hikma University .. A training workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in education

The Language Center at the University of Al -Hikma, in cooperation with the Center for Continuing Education, organized a training workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in teaching languages ​​and opportunities it provides to enrich the educational process on the one hand, and on the other hand the limits to be developed to avoid its negative effects.
The professors attended by the lecturers at the Language Center at the university and language professors in Al -Hikma schools and a number of schools in the scope of the Maronite diocese of Beirut. Artificial intelligence is not only a transient matter or a technological tool, but it is a revolution that matches the revolutions that left its mark in the history of the transfer of knowledge. The fate of critical sense, innovation and creativity? ”The Director of the Language Center at Al -Hikma University continued, calling for not to worry about the tools of artificial intelligence, but rather the enlightened openness to the positives it provides, through the wise merging of these tools with work and not to confuse technological progress and the loss of meaning. To support and enrich information. He added that the training workshop, based on the above, is an invitation to explore the ways to adapt to artificial intelligence and make it an ally, not a master. The workshop included a series of lectures and applied training exercises centered on how to use effective intelligence and its specialized platforms in the languages ​​and education to accompany students and students, while warning of several errors that may be hugely committed by artificial intelligence, which requires taking A critical position of the materials it provides, so that it is associated with the educational process responsible. It is emphasized that artificial intelligence will not be able to replace the professors, but professors who use artificial intelligence will replace the professors who do not use it. As for students and students, the lecturers have noticed that they often use artificial intelligence to prepare their research and homework without any Checking the materials it provides, which leads to the lack of cohesion of ideas and lack of clarity, which requires their constant alert to the necessity of personal diligence to form a good scientific level, and then use artificial intelligence to benefit from it in part and not to rely on it absolutely.