Pre-service science teachers levels of awareness of industry 4.0 concepts

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

With the developments experienced in recent years, the current period, called Industry 4.0, which includes concepts such as the internet of objects, artificial intelligence, dark factories, and embedded systems, has influenced many areas. One of the areas most affected by these developments is education. The knowledge level of pre-service teachers about these concepts is very important in this study, the purpose was to determine the pre-service science teachers’ levels of awareness of Industry 4.0 concepts. “Industry 4.0 Conceptual Awareness Scale” prepared by Dogan and Baloglu (2020) was used as a data collection tool. The findings obtained in the study revealed that the preservice teachers’ levels of awareness of Industry 4.0 concepts differed significantly concerning the variables of gender, academic average grade, mother and father’s education levels, family income, following scientific journals and websites, and knowing the technological concepts prominent in education. Consequently, it was seen that the pre-service science teachers' awareness of Industry 4.0 concepts was generally at a level below the average, except for certain concepts.