Teachers’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Lindner A, Romeike R (2019)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2019
Pages Range: 22 - 29
Conference Proceedings Title: ISSEP 2019 - 12th International conference on informatics in schools: Situation, evaluation and perspectives, Local Proceedings
Event location: Larnaca
ISBN: 978-9925-553-27-3
URI: http://cyprusconferences.org/issep2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LocalISSEP-v5.pdf
Abstract
The growing importance of artificial intelligence systems in daily life leads to increasing demands for artificial intelligence (AI) as a topic in schools and the necessity to consider what all students in the 21st century should know about the topic. However, the successful integration of topics related to AI into teaching in K-12 requires proper preparation of teachers for this task. Therefore, we have conducted a questionnaire survey to get a first estimation of computer science teachers’ knowledge about the subject area. The teachers, who are already interested in AI, are furthermore asked which competences and types of knowledge they would consider as most important for their students in the field of AI. The questionnaire also investigates the challenges of teaching artificial intelligence. The survey shows that the teachers’ knowledge about artificial intelligence is broadly influenced by current “hype” topics and media coverage of AI. Teachers place a slightly higher value on sociocultural and technical knowledge about AI than on pure applicationoriented competences. Moreover, teachers perceive a lack of adequate teaching materials as well as best-practice ex-amples and tools in the field of artificial intelligence. Despite these challenges, the integration of the topic into computer science education curricula is welcomed.
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APA:
Lindner, A., & Romeike, R. (2019). Teachers’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence. In Eglė Jasutė and Sergei Pozdniakov (Eds.), ISSEP 2019 - 12th International conference on informatics in schools: Situation, evaluation and perspectives, Local Proceedings (pp. 22 - 29). Larnaca, CY.
MLA:
Lindner, Annabel, and Ralf Romeike. "Teachers’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP), Larnaca Ed. Eglė Jasutė and Sergei Pozdniakov, 2019. 22 - 29.
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