Artificial Intelligence, digital competence, tutoring, personalizing learning, testing, automating tasks

The forthcoming fourth industrial revolution (so-called Industry 4.0) will affect all fields of human activity. An important task of the education system is to prepare competent employees and their teachers, especially in digital literacy and algorithmic thinking. Both these sets of competencies lead to effective use of information and communication tools in everyday and professional life. The use of artificial intelligence in education is becoming increasingly studied topic. When talking about the use of artificial intelligence in teaching, we mean above all tutoring (AI programs to answer questions or provide feedback), personalizing learning (AI can also provide support for special needs students, adaptive tutors tailor learning material, pace sequence and difficulty to each student's needs), testing (Computer adaptive assessments adjust the difficulty of successive questions based on the student's answers) and automating tasks (AI can perform routine tasks such as taking attendance, grading assignments, and generating test questions). In the Czech school environment, these artificial intelligence components are not yet used on such scale as in other European Union countries, despite the fact that the methodological and legislative documents adopted by the European Commission and the Government of the Czech Republic create a favorable environment for greater involvement of the latest technologies in the educational process of all age groups. In particular, teachers' inability to exploit the potential of these technologies despite the good facilities of schools and the excellent digital literacy of Czech pupils and students, as mentioned in the ICILS 2013 Computer and Information Literacy study. Because of this it is necessary to focus on the education of existing and future teachers.