Application of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Sustainability Education: Catalyst for Enhancing 21st Century Skills Development Among Students.
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The study was designed to investigate whether manner of application of AI tools into education for sustainability students’ learning environments served to enhance or inhibit acquisition of 21st century learning skills. To achieve this objective, manner of application of AI tools and acquisition of 21st century learning skills served as the investigated variables. A survey research design was adopted and the study’s population comprised of post-graduate students of Geography Education and Sustainable Development Studies Department in the College of Education, University of Calabar. A census was conducted as the students are just 11 in number. A questionnaire tagged “Manner of Application of AI Tools and 21st Century Learning Skills’ Acquisition Questionnaire” (MAAT21CLSAQ) served as the instrument for data collection. One research question was posed for the study. Descriptive statistics (frequency counts, percentage and mean scores) was used to analyse the data. Findings
revealed that manner of application of AI Tools could serve as either a catalyst or a barrier to 21st Century Learning Skills’ acquisition. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, students should not rely entirely on information obtained from AI tools in their submissions or presentations. It was also recommended that students should seek to expand the horizon of whatever information browsed from AI tools before compiling such.
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