Artificial intelligence in education: The urgent need to prepare teachers for tomorrow’s schools

Artificial intelligence in education: The urgent need to prepare teachers for tomorrow's schools Formation et profession 27(1), 2019 • 10 completely conquered the classroom, at least officially, it has certainly established a presence.Students and teachers are using AI every time they fire up a smart phone app or web browser, while perhaps unaware of the ethical implications.From now on, AI will be an integral part of our lives.Unfortunately, most school curricula and teacher training programs don't offer AI courses.The objective of this column is to provide an overview of the educational uses of AI.This topic is far too broad to cover in a few pages, so we will narrow our focus to the importance of training teachers in the basics of AI for education.We can't ask all teachers to become AI experts, but they should at least be prepared to work in the schools of the future.At the same time, we must equip our young people with the tools they'll need to build tomorrow's society. Artificial intelligence: key conceptsThe aim here is not to provide an exhaustive description of how AI is used for education, but instead to define a few key terms.