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Fundación Telefónica's First National Study Finds 4 in 10 Venezuelan Teachers Already Using AI

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Fundación Telefónica Movistar's first nationwide survey of 1,726 Venezuelan primary teachers found 40% already use AI tools like ChatGPT, with a sharp generational gap (80% of young teachers vs 54% of over-65s aware of AI), prompting a new ethics-focused ProFuturo training track.

1726 teachers
Primary teachers surveyed (March 2025)
40 %
Teachers reporting current AI tool use in pedagogical practice (March 2025)
37 %
Teachers using ChatGPT specifically (March 2025)
80 %
Younger teachers reporting AI familiarity (March 2025)
54 %
Teachers over 65 reporting AI familiarity (March 2025)
Fundación Telefónica's First National Study Finds 4 in 10 Venezuelan Teachers Already Using AI

Details

Promoter
Fundación Telefónica Movistar (ProFuturo)
Period
2024-2025 (published March 2025)
Keywords
education, teacher training, AI literacy, EdTech research

Context

Fundación Telefónica Movistar's Digital Education team, with statistical analysis support from Jenny Bolívar of the Universidad Central de Venezuela's School of Statistics, ran Venezuela's first large-scale study of how primary-school teachers use AI in the classroom, reaching 1,726 teachers across the country's states and presented on 6 March 2025.

Objectives

The study aimed to measure teacher AI adoption and attitudes, and to inform a new AI-training track for educators, focused on ethical and pedagogical use, inside the foundation's regional ProFuturo digital-education platform.

Activities

The survey measured which AI tools teachers already use in their pedagogical practice and their awareness levels across age groups, surfacing a clear generational divide.

Results

40% of respondents said they already use AI tools in their pedagogical practice, dominated by general-purpose assistants — ChatGPT (37%), Bing (22%) and Gemini (18%) — while purpose-built education tools such as Grammarly (10%) and Tutor.ai (11%) remain little known. 80% of younger teachers reported familiarity with AI, against 54% of teachers over 65.

Conclusions

Teachers who use AI credited it with fostering creativity, motivation, collaborative work, problem-solving and critical thinking, but the report is explicit that this is an adoption snapshot, not a measured learning-outcomes study. Venezuela is described as still in an early, exploratory phase of AI adoption in classrooms amid acute resource constraints in its public education system.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Cost of running a national teacher survey and standing up a new AI-ethics training track within the existing ProFuturo platform; no budget figures published.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Survey conducted and results presented 6 March 2025; the follow-on AI-training track was described as still in development at that point.
Staffing & skills
Fundación Telefónica Movistar Digital Education team, Jenny Bolívar, Universidad Central de Venezuela School of Statistics (statistical analysis support)

Conditions for success

  • Named methodology and partnership with an independent university statistician lends credibility to the survey
  • National distribution of the survey across the country's states

Common failure modes

  • Findings are self-reported adoption data, not a measured learning-outcomes study
  • The resulting AI-ethics training track was described as still 'in development' at the time of publication, so no delivery data yet exists
  • Venezuela's public education system faces acute resource constraints, per the source

Where it fits

Governance type
corporate foundation-led, national in scope
Scale
national survey; follow-on training track scope not yet defined
Income level
lower-middle-income

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