AI in Virtual Exchanges��What can they do for each other?
Elena Mizrahi
Virtual Exchange Center, Western Galilee College, Technion
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Virtual Exchange programs offer transformative opportunities for students to engage in meaningful cross-cultural collaboration and learning.
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Research Gap
We need empirical studies on how generative AI changes student interaction, intercultural learning, language negotiation, assessment, and inclusion inside actual VE and COIL projects.
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What We Need
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Two Young Forces in Education
Virtual exchange
makes learning global without travel.
AI
changes how students write, think, search, create, and communicate.
the future classroom: connected, critical, intercultural, and ethically demanding.
The meeting point
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Why VE Has Not Spread Enough
Redesign Required
Asks teachers to redesign the course
Complex Dependencies
Partnership, timing, task design, and institutional support
Familiar Routines
Many lecturers stay inside familiar disciplinary “comfort zone”
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What AI Can Do for VE
Prepare students
Support language
Reduce access barriers
Help teachers design tasks
Support reflection
Create intercultural AI literacy activities
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What VE Can Do for AI Literacy
Make AI Bias Visible
Compare AI Outputs
Across languages and contexts.
Teach Verification
Through human dialogue.
Connect Ethics to Real
People
Shared Object of Inquiry
Turn AI from a private shortcut into a shared object of inquiry.
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The Vision
AI can help virtual exchange grow.
Virtual exchange can help AI education stay human.
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The Real Opportunity
AI gives every discipline a reason to rethink learning.
Virtual exchange gives that rethinking a human, international setting.
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