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Almost nine in ten students use AI, the vast majority for personal purposes, but only 6% say they fully understand it and less than half have only basic knowledge. For the vast majority of children, AI offers a wealth of concrete possibilities, but a third believe it will make them lazier and more ignorant. For teachers, seven in ten use new technologies, half for teaching purposes, but only one in ten have knowledge beyond the basics.
In the Italian school world, there is a huge gap between the actual use and awareness of AI, a lack of awareness that ultimately undermines the great potential of AI in the teaching field. This is the result of a survey conducted among 1,175 male and female students and 136 teachers from 50 Italian schools participating in the “Let’s Learn with Artificial Intelligence in Schools” research project promoted and coordinated by the Learning Research Center Digital in partnership with Edulia Treccani Scuola and ScuolaZoo.
If we delve deeper into the specifics of the topic, this gap is magnified, often confirming misconceptions about awareness: 14% of teachers and 45% of students claim that they have never heard of generative AI, while they have only a basic knowledge of it at 47% and 36% respectively; nearly a third of teachers have never heard of “large language models”, a figure that reaches 82% among students; machine learning is neglected by 15% of teachers and 59% of students, while 55% of teachers and 28% of students have only a basic understanding of it.
More than half of students (54%) said they had never explored its risks and dangers, and although the vast majority of students (74%) believed that AI offered a wealth of concrete possibilities, nearly a third thought it would make them lazier and more ignorant. Meanwhile, children mainly used it to search for information, process text, create images, presentations, videos/music. Only a quarter of children used it for educational purposes with the teacher’s consent.
It is interesting to highlight the suggestions made by teachers in the classroom. The main reasons teachers proposed using AI applications for school purposes were to search for information (77%), process texts (50%), create presentations (31%), images (28%), videos or music (18%), and fiction, history or interviews with famous people (14%).
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