(Source: "Science and Technology Daily" 2025-02-26 Page 05)

Editor's Note With the rapid development of science and 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 continuous innovation in educational content and teaching methods. Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", which further clarified the overall requirements and implementation paths for strengthening artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. To this end, this newspaper has launched a special plan to explore how to build a complete artificial intelligence education system for primary and secondary schools, demonstrate the active exploration of primary and secondary schools in various places in artificial intelligence education, and pay attention to the challenges and opportunities that new technologies bring to the growth of young people.

◎Intern reporter Xia Yi

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In November 2024, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" to systematically deploy artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. The notice clarifies that artificial intelligence education will be basically popularized in primary and secondary schools by 2030, which points out the direction for the development of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. Previously, the Ministry of Education had listed artificial intelligence as one of the six logical main lines in constructing the curriculum system in the "Compulsory Education Information Technology Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition)".

Why carry out artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools? What problems does its development face? How to build an artificial intelligence curriculum system suitable for primary and secondary w88 casino students? With these questions in mind, reporters from Science and Technology Daily recently interviewed relevant experts.

Cultivation of talents needed for the future

As early as 2017, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", which clearly proposed to "implement a 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 across the country 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 w88 casino Textbook Approval Committee, becoming the first set of artificial intelligence textbooks for primary and secondary schools in the country that was approved by the provincial textbook approval department. Qingdao City, Shandong Province promotes the "1+4+100N" strategy of artificial intelligence education and establishes an artificial intelligence education research institute to jointly train local key teachers with experts from scientific research institutes and universities. In addition, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan and other places have actively developed artificial intelligence education resources and built artificial intelligence curriculum systems, and have achieved certain results.

The reason why various places are competing to explore artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools is the new requirements that technological development has put forward for talent training. Professor Zhong Baichang, member of the Academic Committee of South China Normal University and director of the Academic Subcommittee of the w88 casino of Education and Information Technology, pointed out that artificial intelligence has become an indispensable factor of production for the development of human society, and having artificial intelligence literacy has become a basic capability requirement for modern citizens. "Schools are the main battlefield for improving citizen literacy. Only by popularizing artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary w88 casino campuses can we comprehensively and comprehensively improve the artificial intelligence literacy of young people." Zhong Baichang said.

“The future society will need a large number of talents with knowledge and skills of artificial intelligence.” Sun Yu, a lecturer at the w88 casino, 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 and lay the foundation for their future career development. More importantly, artificial intelligence education can promote innovation and reform 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.

Promoting and popularizing is not easy

However, popularizing artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools is not easy.

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." Zhong Baichang told reporters that this can only benefit some students, and the popularity still needs to be improved and the scope still needs to be expanded. In addition, due to the cutting-edge nature of artificial intelligence courses, primary and secondary schools in different regions still have gaps in terms of teachers, curriculum construction, and supporting hardware.

In terms of teaching staff, Sun Yu said that as an emerging field of artificial intelligence, professional talents are relatively scarce. Existing information technology teachers or teachers of related subjects may be deficient in artificial intelligence professional knowledge and skills, making it difficult to provide high-quality teaching.

Zhong Baichang added: "At present, many artificial intelligence teachers in primary and secondary schools are not information technology majors, lack systematic technical training, and have insufficient professional qualities, which undoubtedly affects the progress and quality of course implementation."

In terms of curriculum construction, Zhong Baichang 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 content of the textbooks has low-level duplication 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. "There is currently a lack of tool platforms with good applicability on the market, and low-cost solutions for computing power servers are not yet mature." Zhong Baichang believes that artificial intelligence courses involve the training of many algorithm models and the preparation of data sets, which require data collection tools and model training platforms that meet the cognitive level of primary and secondary w88 casino students, and even intelligent hardware that can deploy models. In order to ensure the efficiency of classroom teaching, the training of larger models and data sets also requires the support of computing servers.

Multiple parties work together to build a system

Once, artificial intelligence only existed in science fiction movies and literature; now, it has been integrated into our daily lives. For primary and secondary w88 casino students, their relationship with artificial intelligence will be closer in the future. Therefore, it is crucial to build a complete artificial intelligence education system.

Zhong Baichang believes that to promote the maturity of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools, it is not enough to rely solely on policies. Schools, enterprises and other entities must also take action.

"Each primary and secondary w88 casino should attach great importance to the establishment of artificial intelligence courses, equip the courses with suitable teachers, and ensure sufficient class hours and financial investment. At the same time, artificial intelligence teachers need to continuously improve themselves, learn in-depth knowledge and skills related to artificial intelligence, and become an 'expert' teacher." Zhong Baichang said.

Artificial intelligence education also has certain requirements for hardware facilities. Zhong Baichang believes that artificial intelligence companies should speed up the development of data collection tools and model training platforms that match the cognitive level of primary and secondary w88 casino students, as well as domestic computing power server products that can divide computing power to provide low-cost software and hardware solutions for primary and secondary schools.

Sun Yu said that building an artificial intelligence course system that meets both student needs and social needs requires comprehensive consideration and design from multiple aspects such as training objectives, course content, teaching methods, teaching staff, and evaluation systems. Only in this way can we cultivate artificial intelligence talents with innovative spirit and practical ability, and contribute to social development and technological progress.

“The artificial intelligence course not only involves cutting-edge technology, but is also a practical course that integrates ‘learning by doing’ and ‘creating’.” Zhong Baichang emphasized that in the implementation stage of artificial intelligence education, we should advocate learning by doing, learning by application, and learning by creating, so that students can experience, understand and master the concepts, principles, methods and skills of artificial intelligence through practical activities, learn to ask new questions, form new solutions, and solve problems through human-machine collaboration. Only in this way can the organic unity of knowledge learning, ability building and value creation be achieved.

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