AI-supported education assistant BKAİ introduced in Antalya

Aiming to integrate artificial intelligence into education, Bahçeşehir College continues its conferences introducing the technology of the future in different cities. The third of the conferences organized in İzmir and Ankara under the title of 'ABC of Artificial Intelligence in Education' was held in Antalya at The Marmara Hotel. Bahçeşehir College General Manager Özlem Dağ, Bahçeşehir College Deputy General Manager Dr. Özge Aslan, BK Mobile General Manager İsrafil Dilmeç, Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Faculty of Educational Sciences Dean Prof. Dr. Yavuz Samur, Bahçeşehir College administrators, teachers and parents attended the conference.

'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING, LIKE ELECTRICITY'

Bahçeşehir College General Manager Özlem Dağ stated in her speech at the conference that the BKAi platform, which has an artificial intelligence-supported educational assistant feature, is the first example in the world that has integrated the educational curriculum. Stating that Professor Andrew Ng from Stanford University likened artificial intelligence to the electricity of this age, Özlem Dağ said, “Just as electricity changed everything, entered and transformed everything from its first invention to today, artificial intelligence will do the same. It changes and will change everything; it transforms and will transform everything. It is necessary to look at it from this perspective.” Özlem Dağ stated that she is proud to be one of the pioneering institutions that use artificial intelligence in education.

'TEACHERS WILL FOCUS ON THEIR REAL JOB'

Özlem Dağ, who stated that BKAi assistant, where students listen to topics they do not understand and get help with questions they cannot answer, is actively used in Bahçeşehir College schools, said that the teacher assistant will start to be used as of September. Speaking about the assistant that will take the administrative burden off teachers, Dağ said, “Not only in Turkey, but all over the world, teachers perform administrative duties as well as pedagogical duties. There is such a reality in every country. When artificial intelligence takes these administrative duties off our teachers, they will focus more on their own main professions with the assistant. They will have the opportunity to personalize these applications with their own talents, knowledge and experience in in-class applications, and to follow their students one-on-one and provide guidance and mentoring.”

PARENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Stating that the assistant application will not be limited to student and teacher support, Dağ gave the good news of an artificial intelligence-supported assistant for parents and administrators, and said the following:

“Thanks to artificial intelligence, our teachers will establish more sustainable communication with their parents with fast, clear, up-to-date data. This will deepen the communication between our parents and teachers and strengthen the education and training process.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTED EDUCATION ASSISTANT

Providing information about BKAi with her presentation, Bahçeşehir College Deputy General Manager Dr. Özge Aslan stated that the system is an artificial intelligence-supported platform that provides access to educational materials prepared by Bahçeşehir College experts, provides assistant support for completing missing topics, and covers the areas of career selection, school admissions, and guidance. Also focusing on BKAi's assistant feature, Dr. Özge Aslan stated that the assistant, to whom students ask their questions by speaking and receive voice answers, is an educational model. Dr. Özge Aslan stated that the assistant, to whom students also ask questions they cannot answer, aims to enable students to reach the answer on their own with the questions she asks gradually.

CONFERENCE IN IZMIR, ANKARA AND ANTALYA

Dr. Özge Aslan said, “We are aware that artificial intelligence will shape the future and education. As Bahçeşehir College, we have made serious investments in this area. We are trying to convey the importance we give to artificial intelligence with the conferences we hold in İzmir, Ankara and most recently Antalya.”

DATA SECURITY IS IMPORTANT

Speaking at the program, BK Mobile General Manager İsrafil Dilmeç stated that BKAi was implemented by local experts, with a team of 25 engineers in the Technology Development Zone CyberPark in Ankara, with the vision of Bahçeşehir College Chief Executive Officer Hüseyin Yücel. Explaining the technical working process of BKAi, Dilmeç emphasized the protection of students' data and said, "We provide an infrastructure in a completely secure environment in Turkey that does not send any of our students' data, student information, curiosities, and areas of interest to any application abroad. It is very important for our students' futures that their information is not processed by other platforms."

'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LITERATED STUDENTS ARE NEEDED IN THE FUTURE'

Following the information provided by BKAi, Bahçeşehir University Dean of Educational Sciences Prof. Dr. Yavuz Samur made a presentation titled 'Being a Parent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'. Stating that artificial intelligence will eliminate many professions in the future, Prof. Dr. Samur stated that especially knowledge-based professions will disappear earlier. In return, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Samur stated that artificial intelligence will reveal new professions and drew attention to the fact that professions that require manual skills will not disappear. Stating that artificial intelligence will be able to do the job of doctors in the future, Prof. Dr. Samur said that surgeons will always be needed. Giving examples from different professional groups, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Samur also emphasized the imitations and fake images made with artificial intelligence and said the following:

"Human images and voices will be imitated, and montage videos will become widespread. In the future, we need a student profile that is literate in artificial intelligence, can analyze it well, and questions what it sees." (DHA)