Artificial Intelligence as an Educational Resource during Preservice Teacher Training

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is presented as an emerging technology that facilitates the personalization of learning and prepares young people for a changing labour market marked by new social requirements This document describes how a virtual training was designed and developed to broaden the knowledge about the A.I. of the 76 pre-service teachers who were enrolled in the subject: “ICT Applied to Education” of the Early Childhood Education’ Degree in the University of Extremadura. Through a mixed research approach, the responses offered by the participants in the questionnaire designed ad hoc for this study and in their own digital portfolio are analyzed. From the Likert scale closed questions were calculated descriptive statistics and for the open questions the technique of qualitative coding analysis was used. The results reveal that students perceive that the A.I. has a positive impact on learning and they are trained to design their own educational resources if they have the support and accompaniment of their university teachers. Finally, we consider that it is necessary to review the curricula of the subjects of the Degree in Early Childhood Education in order to contemplate the use of A.I. in the design of the teaching process of pre-service teacher training.