Teaching with Artificial Intelligence A Guide for Primary and Elementary Educators

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Preface

Part I Foundations and Ethics: Historical Context, Ethical Framing, and Why AI Matters for Young Learners

Chapter 1 Developing Minds, Smart Classrooms, and Artificial Intelligence: A Present–Future Merger

Andreas Demetriou

Chapter 2 Starting Early: Ethics and AI in Education

Karen Murcia, Madeleine Dobson, George Aranda, Thilinika Wijesinghe, Emma Cross, and Sarsha Mennell

Chapter 3 Empowering Literacy with AI: Implications for Teaching, Ethics, and Policy

Damian Maher and Don Carter

Part II Building Educator Capacity and AI Literacy: Equipping Teachers with AI Literacy, Prompt-Engineering Skills, and Equitable Training

Chapter 4 Fostering AI Literacy in Primary Education with LearningML: Practical Classroom Examples Using Machine Learning

Pablo Dúo Terrón and Marcos Román-González 

Chapter 5 The AI-Ready Educator: Prompt Engineering for Empowerment in Early Childhood Education and Care

Zacharias E. Andreadakis, Stamatios Papadakis, Maria Hatzigianni, and Maria Dardanou

Chapter 6 Evaluating AI Teacher Training Curricula through a Lens of Equity, Ethics, and Justice

Janice Mak, Marissa Castellana, and Wen Wen

Chapter 7 AI in Early and Primary Education: Societal, Classroom, and Teacher Perspectives on Ethical and Pedagogical Integration

Paraskevi Topali, Erika Schlatter, Wouter Jansen, Zeyu Wang, Carla Haelermans, and Eliane Segers

Part III Classroom Tools and Assessment Practices: Hands-on AI Tutors, Chatbots, Generative-AI Question Design, and Assessment Pipelines

Chapter 8. AI Tutors and Multilingual Development: A Literature-Based Analysis

Angela Ruo-yan Zhao

Chapter 9. AI Tutors: From Promise to Practice in Primary and Early Education

Xinyue Li, Frank Morley, and Rachad Zaki

Chapter 10. AI-Driven Chatbots in Flipped-Classroom Mathematics Education: Enhancing Learning Achievement and Self-Efficacy in Pre-Service Primary Teachers

Jin Su Jeong and David González-Gómez

Chapter 11. Designing Classroom Assessments with Generative AI: A Teacher-in-the-Loop Framework

Guher Gorgun, Okan Bulut, and Bin Tan

Part IV Policy, Implementation, and Future Directions: System-Level Governance, Adaptive-Learning Policy, and Visionary Outlook

Chapter 12 AI-Driven Assessment in Early and Primary Education: Tools, Strategies, and Ethical Considerations

Elena Even-Simkin

Chapter 13 Generative AI in Primary Education: Policies, Practices, and Adaptive Learning Innovations

Jussi S. Jauhiainen

Chapter 14 Nurturing the Future: AI’s Role in Shaping Early and Primary Education

Mohammad Alrabie

Acknowledgments

Index

Biography

Stamatios Papadakis is an assistant professor at the University of Crete, Greece. His research interests include educational technology, computational thinking, educational robotics, and the pedagogical integration of generative artificial intelligence.