Data Science Executive Week 2025

This presentation draws upon survey data from 923 literacy teachers and identifies their perceived benefits and concerns of AI in literacy and language arts education. Benefits include time efficiency, creating and modifying content, brainstorming, evaluation and feedback, and preparing for the future. Concerns include unreliability, cheating and plagiarism, limiting student development, dependency, and a diminished human experience. Recommendations for pre-service and in-service teacher education programming and professional development will be provided.