(Source: "Science and Technology Daily" 2025-05-14)
◎Intern reporter Xia Yi
Recently, Beijing Youth Artificial Intelligence Institute (Haidian) was officially unveiled. The college is guided by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and jointly initiated by Beijing Zhongguancun University and the Haidian District Education Commission. It will bring together faculty resources from 31 top universities in China, open up a collaborative education channel from basic education to higher education, and allow middle w88 casino students to directly participate in national cutting-edge scientific research projects, and gain opportunities for creative implementation and entrepreneurial project incubation. This attempt provides a new idea for cultivating talents in the field of artificial intelligence.
How will the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy educate people, and what kind of development path should it explore in the future? Recently, reporters from Science and Technology Daily interviewed relevant experts.
Open up a new path for training
The exploration of the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy has already begun. In 2022, Lijia Experimental Primary w88 casino in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, with the goal of creating a national smart primary w88 casino model suitable for the development of Lijia Smart City, established the country's first juvenile artificial intelligence education college, opening up a new path for the cultivation of talents in the field of artificial intelligence.
In August 2024, the Shanghai Youth Artificial Intelligence Institute was established. It is committed to building a comprehensive training system for top innovative talents in artificial intelligence, creating an international youth science and technology innovation exchange and cooperation platform, and cultivating top talents in the field of artificial intelligence for Chinese youth in the new era. The Beijing Youth Artificial Intelligence College (Haidian) established this time also takes "through-training" as the exploration direction of w88 casino running practice.
Although the training ideas of juvenile artificial intelligence academies vary from place to place, these practices are all useful explorations of adolescent artificial intelligence education. "Compared with the existing artificial intelligence education, the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy shows distinct systematic advantages and ecological characteristics."Qu Qixing, a professor at the w88 casino of Information, w88 casino, pointed out,This innovation is not only reflected in the breadth of resource integration, but also profoundly touches the essence of education - from knowledge infusion to thinking cultivation and ability construction。
The reason why the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy emerged is that the times have put forward higher requirements for the training of talents in the field of artificial intelligence.Qu Qixing takes Beijing Youth Artificial Intelligence Institute (Haidian) as an example to analyze,By allowing young top talents to "enter projects, industries, and technological frontiers early", it is expected to greatly shorten the talent training cycle in the field of artificial intelligence. "Relying on the Youth Artificial Intelligence Education College, we can 'start from childhood' and cultivate more talents with artificial intelligence qualities." He said that the Youth Artificial Intelligence College is not only expected to cultivate scientific research practitioners with mathematical foundations, programming capabilities, hardware operations, etc., but also is expected to cultivate compound talents with both AI technology and other subject abilities.
It can be said that the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy has become a new fertile ground for cultivating artificial intelligence talents. Yu Shengquan, a professor at Beijing Normal University and executive director of the Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education, said: "In the context of the steady improvement in the quality of basic education in our country, the Juvenile Artificial Intelligence Academy provides a suitable growth environment for children with artificial intelligence talents, allowing them to cultivate their thinking and exercise their abilities from an early age. I think this is worth exploring."
Avoid misunderstandings
However, the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy is still in the exploratory stage, and its construction process will inevitably experience "growing pains".
The first is the utilitarian tendency in talent cultivation. Nowadays, many parents or educators regard the quality development of their children as a plus point for their resume. Competition awards, certificate examinations, etc. have become the yardstick for measuring the value of education. In this regard, Yu Shengquan pointed out that we must be careful to prevent the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy from becoming a "gold-plated" tool. “Junior Artificial Intelligence Academy cannot be a ‘label’ on students’ resumes, but should allow students to explore a growth path that suits them through a systematic learning process driven by their interests,” he said.
Qu Qixing also expressed this, Although the top-notch training model of the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy can quickly select talented students, if it relies too much on the competition selection mechanism, students may be lacking in soft skills such as critical thinking and teamwork skills.
In Yu Shengquan’s view, the key to whether students at the Junior Artificial Intelligence Academy can effectively learn relevant knowledge lies in whether the curriculum development and design is based on the students’ cognitive level and in line with the students’ development patterns. “If students have not even mastered the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and functions, and then allow them to directly come into contact with matrices and artificial neural networks, it is tantamount to ‘destroying the growth of the child’ and is not conducive to the growth of the child.” He said.
Yu Shengquan pointed out that if the curriculum design is superficial and does not go into the key areas of thinking training, the training effect will be greatly reduced. Specifically, students need to undergo disciplinary thinking training including argumentation, speculation, modeling, calculation, reasoning, verification, etc. before they are expected to form disciplinary thinking related to artificial intelligence. "In the basic education stage, the training of thinking is crucial. If there is a disconnect between the knowledge students acquire and the training of subject thinking, then even if a large amount of knowledge is accumulated, it will be difficult for students to improve their subject literacy." He said.
Interest leads to growth
Yu Shengquan said that the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy should keep up with the development of the times and technological evolution, and use ever-changing real scenes and rich and diverse intelligent tools to carry the core teaching content that remains unchanged.
In fact, this reflects the close connection between the Juvenile Artificial Intelligence Education College and basic education. When communicating with reporters, Yu Shengquan repeatedly emphasized the importance of basic education in cultivating young artificial intelligence talents. So, how to balance the relationship between artificial intelligence education and basic education? He suggested that courses should be designed in conjunction with basic education subjects to allow students to use artificial intelligence to solve problems in real situations.
Qu Qixing gives an example, the college can explore interdisciplinary theme courses such as the "AI+Biology" protein structure prediction project and the "AI+History" document digital analysis project, and help students transfer and apply knowledge through "integration and penetration".
In terms of artificial intelligence professional courses, Yu Shengquan believes that they should be designed closely based on the growth patterns of children and adolescents. "Hierarchical design is the only way to cultivate young talents in the field of artificial intelligence. When designing courses, the college should first help students establish a basic knowledge system of the subject, so that students can subtly understand and master relevant knowledge in the process of knowledge transfer and utilization. For students who have room for learning, they can appropriately improve and expand their knowledge." He said.
"In other words, the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy should protect the sustainable development potential and innovative consciousness of young people through the gradual path of 'interest-driven-project-driven-research deepening'."Qu Qixing said。
Interest is the best teacher. Yu Shengquan pointed out that the Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy should be oriented by students' interests and stimulate students' internal drive for innovation. Only if students are interested can they hope to achieve the talent training goals of the Junior Artificial Intelligence Academy. In this regard, the Junior Artificial Intelligence Academy can explore an exit mechanism. He suggested: "The Youth Artificial Intelligence Academy can offer some courses that everyone can choose from in the early stage. If students are interested and have the ability, they can enter the next stage of study; if they are not interested or unable to continue learning, they can also choose other development directions."
Yu Shengquan said that the exploration of such colleges is actually a concrete manifestation of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude." "In the future, we can develop different types of top-notch innovative talent training institutions based on students' physical and mental development patterns and the needs of the country's social development. While meeting the country's talent needs, we can allow each child to find a development direction that suits him or her," he said.
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