RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION: FROM KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER TO LEARNING FACILITATOR
Keywords:
artificial intelligence, teaching profession, digital pedagogy, personalised learning, AI literacy, lifelong learning, human-AI collaboration.Abstract
This thesis explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the teaching profession in the twenty-first century. It argues that AI does not eliminate the educator but redefines the educator’s role, shifting it from the transmission of information toward the facilitation, personalisation and ethical guidance of learning. Based on a conceptual review of recent literature on automation and education, the study identifies three directions of change: the automation of routine pedagogical tasks, the personalisation of instruction through intelligent systems, and the rising demand for digital and ethical competence among teachers. The thesis concludes that the future educator must combine subject expertise with digital literacy, critical judgement and distinctly human capacities that intelligent systems cannot reproduce.
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