Inteligencia artificial en educación: De usuarios pasivos a creadores críticos

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become in a common place in our lives. It barely surprises us. We already have devices called “intelligent” such as the cellphone, Siri or Alexa. It is talked and even joked with them, like if they were people. In this essay we propose a path to understand, distinguish and make artificial intelligence as a straightforward way, with the purpose of explaining of what this technology consists of in close and colloquial terms. It is about making IA consumers informed and critic with education in this matter. So, websites that allow the use of artificial intelligence to create original and personalized designs are reviewed, and it is explained the learning of the machine with a tool initially oriented to kids through a practical example which facilitates its incursion on this field. Likewise, it offers a brief journey like we make about how it is used nowadays the artificial intelligence in education its advantages and eventual risks. At last, it is concluded that this field has a fast road and its educative institutions in general have to get ready to adopt it in a critical way.