Confronting the Impact and Challenges of the AI Era: Teachers' Creative Use of Digital Tools to Enhance Digital Teaching Competence

Abstract

Teachers' digital teaching competency is key to navigating the educational transformation in the AI era. This study explores the factors influencing teachers' digital teaching competence by constructing multiple linear regression equations. The findings show that human-computer collaboration ability can significantly and positively explain 86.2% of the changes in digital teaching competence, making it the primary factor influencing digital teaching competence. In addition, this study considered the effects of teachers' gender, teaching experience, professional seniority, and pedagogical content knowledge and critical thinking on digital teaching competence. Combined with the results of the study, it is suggested that teachers should emphasize improving digital literacy and human-computer collaboration ability in the AI era, innovatively use digital tools during the teaching process, and deepen the understanding of pedagogical content knowledge and the cultivation of critical thinking, in order to better navigate the opportunities and challenges of the AI era.