Embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools to Enrich Special Education Teacher Preparation

Abstract

The preparation of special education practitioners is a field that is ever-evolving. To that end, this paper aims to demonstrate the utility and increased opportunity of embedding artificial intelligence (AI) tools within the preparation programs of special educators, particularly as it is contextualize within the community college space. Additionally, this paper attempts to establish an abbreviated research base for AI within education-centered literature, particularly as this piece illustrates the impact of community college and specific coursework that is used to provide learning opportunities for students studying the fundamentals of special education. Last, this document illustrates how AI may be used as an engaging component to special education coursework to improve the ways in which special education teacher-educators, i.e., research-practitioners who train and provide academic and professional development for special educators, design and develop coursework within settings of teaching and learning.