Artificial Intelligence Meets Schools and the Classroom: First Statewide “Teacher Education Day” at RPTU

On September 1, the pilot conference “Teacher Education Day” took place in Building 42 on the Kaiserslautern campus in cooperation with RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and the State Institute of Education, with over 170 participants (Press release: https://rptu.de/newsroom/pressemitteilungen/detail/news/kuenstliche-intelligenz-trifft-auf-schule-und-unterricht-erster-landesweiter-tag-der-lehrkraeftebildung-at RPTU).

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing learning, teaching, and assessment. Therefore, future-oriented teacher education is needed to systematically address these developments. Consequently, the pilot project addressed topics such as AI-supported learning and feedback processes, the use of AI in lesson planning, innovative assessment formats, new competency models and professional development concepts, ethical and legal issues, as well as examples of best practices.

In addition to numerous external presentations, various working groups at RPTU contributed ideas for teacher education to the conference.

The FD-Tech working group participated with a keynote address titled“Generative AI in Schools: A System-Critical Safety Valve or a Spanner in the Works? ” (Prof. Dr. Leo van Waveren) and an interactive presentation titled“Augmented Reality Learning Environments with Eye-Tracking-Based Adaptive Learning Support”(Stefan Hornig).

Due to the event’s great success, the State Institute of Education is evaluating whether this format will be repeated in the coming years at other teacher-training universities across the state through a circular decision-making process.