The Impact of Chatbots on Education

Recent advances in deep learning and natural language processing made chatbots an efficient tool to interact with users more naturally. Chatbot has been used in many fields. Many studies have shown evidence that by applying this Artificial Intelligence technology in education, students' learning outcomes, motivation, and problem-solving skills are significantly improved. By designing, implementing, and applying chatbot in the classroom, we can initiate a project-driven learning process that stimulates student interest and offer teachers and educators new tools to inspire students' curiosity. A recent study shows the determinant factors to increase chatbot usage in the classroom and suggests some guidelines for designing the chatbot. This paper aims to review studies of the impact of a chatbot on education and explore the potential of how a chatbot can apply in today's classroom through a third-grade social science application: how to build a chatbot that answers interesting questions regarding California Native tribe using Dialogflow. The purpose is to engage students with state-of-art technology while they are learning about important topics.