(Source: Science and Technology Daily 2025-02-26 Edition 05)
Editor's Note With the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence has gradually penetrated into all aspects of people's lives. In the field of primary and secondary education, artificial intelligence not only provides students with rich learning resources, but also promotes the continuous innovation of educational content and teaching methods.
◎Intern reporter Xia Tianyi
Recently, in the first class of Beijing No. 80 Middle School, teachers used artificial intelligence big model prompt words to guide students to explore learning methods in the intelligent era; in Lijia Experimental Primary School, Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, teachers used the smart education resource library to quickly generate personalized lesson plans, and combined with feedback data to generate students' learning records... In the new semester, "artificial intelligence" has become one of the keywords in primary and secondary schools in many places.
In November 2024, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", which systematically deployed the artificial intelligence education work in primary and secondary schools. The notice clearly states that artificial intelligence education is basically popularized in primary and secondary schools by 2030, which has pointed out the direction for the development of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools.
Why do artificial intelligence education be carried out in primary and secondary schools? What problems does its development face?
Cultivate the talents needed in the future
As early as 2017, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial w88 casino games loginIntelligence Development Plan", which clearly proposed to "implement the national intelligent education project, set up artificial intelligence-related courses in primary and secondary schools, and gradually promote programming education."
Under the guidance of top-level design, primary and secondary schools in various places have begun to explore and carry out artificial intelligence education.
In 2020, the textbook "Artificial Intelligence" compiled by the Guangzhou Education Research Institute was approved by the Guangdong Provincial Primary and Secondary School Textbook Review Committee, becoming the first set of artificial intelligence textbooks for primary and secondary schools in the country approved by the provincial textbook review department. Qingdao City, Shandong Province promotes the "1+4+100N" strategy of artificial intelligence education, establishes the Artificial Intelligence Education Research Institute, and jointly trains local backbone teachers with research institutes and university experts.
Behind the artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools, localities are the new requirements put forward by technological development for talent cultivation. Professor Zhong Baichang, member of the Academic Committee of South China Normal University and director of the Academic Sub-Committee of the School of Educational Information Technology, pointed out that artificial intelligence has become an indispensable production factor for human social development, and having artificial intelligence literacy has also become the basic capability requirement of modern citizens.
"The future society needs a large number of talents who master artificial intelligence knowledge and skills." Sun Yu, a lecturer at the University of International Business and Economics, believes that carrying out artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools can allow students to understand and master this cutting-edge technology in advance, laying the foundation for their future career development. More importantly, artificial intelligence education can promote innovation and change in education, cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and provide strong support for my country to seize the commanding heights of science and technology and talents in international competition.
Promotion and popularization are not easy
However, it is not easy to popularize artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools.
First of all, the implementation method of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools needs to be improved. "At present, primary and secondary schools mainly promote artificial intelligence education through competitions.w88 casino games" Zhong Bochang told reporters that this can only benefit some students, and the popularity needs to be improved and the scope still needs to be expanded.
In terms of teaching staff, Sun Yu said that as an emerging field, professional talents are relatively scarce, and existing information technology teachers or teachers of related subjects may lack professional knowledge and skills in artificial intelligence, making it difficult to conduct high-quality teaching.
Zhong Baichang added: "At present, many artificial intelligence teachers in primary and secondary schools are not from information technology majors, and lack systematic technical training and lack of professional qualities, which undoubtedly affects the progress and quality of course implementation."
In terms of curriculum construction, Zhong Bochang said that improving the artificial intelligence curriculum system is crucial for primary and secondary schools. "At present, some artificial intelligence textbooks lack the top-level design of the curriculum system, and the textbook content has low-level repetition and fragmentation, and even stays in traditional programming education, maker education, and robot education." He said.
In addition, in the process of popularizing artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools, hardware facilities with computing power are crucial. "At present, there is a lack of a good applicability tool platform on the market, and the low-cost solution for computing power servers is not yet mature." Zhong Bochang believes that artificial intelligence courses involve the training of many algorithm models and the preparation of data sets, and require data acquisition tools and model training platforms that meet the cognitive level of primary and secondary school students, and even intelligent hardware that can deploy models.
Multiple parties work together to build a system
Once upon a time, artificial intelligence only existed in science fiction films and literature; now, it has been integrated into our daily lives. For primary and secondary school students, their relationship with artificial intelligence will be closer in the future.
Zhong Bochang believes that it is far from enough to promote the maturity of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools, relying solely on policies, and schools, enterprises and other entities should also take action.
"Elementary and secondary schools should attach great importance to the opening of artificial intelligence courses, equip the courses with appropriate teachers, and ensure sufficient class hours and funding. At the same time, teachers of artificial intelligence need to continuously improve themselves, deeply learn knowledge and skills related to artificial intelligence, w88 live casinoand become an "expert" teacher." Zhong Bochang said.
Artificial intelligence education also has certain requirements for hardware facilities. Zhong Bochang believes that artificial intelligence companies should accelerate the development of data acquisition tools and model training platforms that match the cognitive level of primary and secondary school students, as well as domestic computing power server products that can split computing power, and provide low-cost software and hardware solutions for primary and secondary schools.
Sun Yu said that to build an artificial intelligence curriculum system that meets students' needs and social needs, it is necessary to comprehensively consider and design from multiple aspects such as training goals, course content, teaching methods, teaching team and evaluation system. Only in this way can artificial intelligence talents with innovative spirit and practical ability be cultivated and contribute to social development and technological progress.
"Artificial intelligence courses not only involve cutting-edge technology, but also a practical course that integrates 'doing, learning and creation'." Zhong Bochang emphasized that in the implementation stage of artificial intelligence education, it is necessary to advocate learning by doing, using, and creating middle school, so that students can feel, understand and master the concepts, principles, methods and skills of artificial intelligence through practical activities, learn to raise new problems, form new solutions, and solve problems through human-machine collaboration. Only in this way can we achieve the organic unity of knowledge learning, ability shaping and value creation.
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