In July last year, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", proposing to implement the National Intelligence Education Project, setting up artificial intelligence related courses in the primary and secondary schools, gradually promoting programming education, and encouraging social forces to participate in educational programming software for learning and learning. , game development and promotion.
In April of this year, the world's first artificial intelligence textbook, "Artificial Intelligence Foundation (High School Edition)", co-edited by East China Normal University's MOOC Center, Shangtang Technology, and Shanghai's well-known high school teachers, was officially released. Following Shangtang Technology, a few days ago, Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Enterprise must cooperate with East China Normal University Press to publish AI textbooks for primary and secondary schools. More than 100 primary and secondary schools nationwide will be introduced as the first batch of “Excellent AI Education Model School”. Set of textbooks, as electives or school-based courses, and formally attend classes in the spring semester.
In fact, for AI technology companies, publishing textbooks is only a starting point, and the imagination of “AI+Education” is far more than that. Around the construction of basic education systems such as artificial intelligence laboratories, teacher training, and educational robots, related companies are launching a series of in-depth explorations.
What to teach: student programming training, automatic driving
Through the disassembly and assembly of "handling robots" and programming, students' hands-on ability can be cultivated. At the same time, the application of "handling robots" can be understood in practice, such as flexible production lines, warehousing logistics, unmanned supermarkets, etc., to fully expand the knowledge of students. .
The “Unmanned Vehicles” teaching aids understand the unmanned complete technology chain by building an unmanned car experimental platform, including sensor sensing, planning, and control. In conjunction with the “Artificial Intelligence Experiment Platform”, students can program their own “unmanned driving” on a certain road. “The driverless car is the most popular among students.” Shang Hailong, general manager and general manager of the business unit of Shangtang Technology Hong Kong, told the Nanfang Daily reporter. Lin Dahua, executive editor of the Artificial Intelligence Foundation (High School Edition) and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the purpose of teaching is to convey the basic ideas and concepts of artificial intelligence and to cultivate students' interest in artificial intelligence.
Coincidentally, Ubisoft also joined the East China Normal University Press. In November this year, the "AI Future Creators - Primary and Secondary School Artificial Intelligence Excellence Course Series" was released, with artificial intelligence and robot education as the core, taking into account science and engineering. There are many courses in mathematics, technology and art, which meet the teaching requirements from elementary school to high school.
In the full set of courses, the curriculum content corresponding to the primary school stage involves knowledge of mechanics and mathematics. It aims to cultivate students' logical thinking through the exploration of the methods and working principles of the sensors. The curriculum content corresponding to the junior high school involves humanoid robots. Basic theory, teaching knowledge of voice interaction, intelligent perception, intelligent decision-making graphical programming software; the curriculum content corresponding to the high school stage includes high-level courses such as Python programming, open source motherboard application, and deformation robot building.
There has always been a huge gap between the professional learning of colleges and the basic education of primary and secondary schools. The content of big data, computer vision, speech recognition, and convolutional neural networks involved in college courses is not suitable for classrooms in primary and secondary schools. It is taught, and if primary and secondary schools only teach the basic concepts of artificial intelligence, and can't connect with the high-level courses of colleges and universities, this is what we have been thinking about." Zhong Yong, vice president of Zhong Bi, said.
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The introduction of AI textbooks means that artificial intelligence education has entered the basic education stage and has become a basic skill that every primary and middle school student can master.
However, as a new thing, the parties are still groping. Zhong Yong said that there are some pain points in the market, and the scientific nature of curriculum design is difficult to guarantee. There is no industry standard in curriculum design. Everyone chooses their own methods. Some institutions directly translate foreign curriculum resources and setting systems, and then carry out secondary development. In fact, many knowledge systems are not well linked in China.
In addition, a big problem in the current content of AI education is that there is a fault phenomenon in the knowledge system. With the programming example, the existing programming education has a lack of transition between the younger version programming and the programmer development programming. After getting started in the younger age, adolescents often miss out on classes because they do not have a transitional course.
Zhong Yong said that in response to this pain point, You must choose to cooperate with famous education experts at home and abroad to develop an integrated curriculum system that integrates small, early and high, and takes into account multiple courses in science, engineering, mathematics, technology and art. The curriculum system for elementary to university AI teaching needs.
This also means that there must be sufficient resources to verify the scientific nature of the course. At present, the major AI companies are accelerating the “staking of the road”. "Whether the teaching standards can be unified nationwide, there is no standard in teaching at present, and there is no unified standard in the country. Everyone runs each other." Some insiders said.
For example, in the United States, more than 100 primary and secondary schools will introduce this set of teaching materials as the first batch of “Excellent AI Education Model School” as an elective course or a school-based course. “The cooperation experience provides us with a lot of real cases. And data feedback to help us validate the course system." Zhong Yong said.
Shangtang Technology has also signed 40 “Artificial Intelligence Education Experimental Base Schools” including the Second Affiliated High School of East China Normal University. At the recent Shenzhen High-Tech Fair, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Middle School officially became the first of Shangtang Education in Shenzhen. Home cooperative school.
Publishing textbooks is just a starting point
In fact, publishing textbooks is only a starting point. AI companies have accelerated the establishment of artificial intelligence basic courses in high schools, and helped schools build teaching experimental platforms and teacher training to discover a new “AI+ education” market.
It is not only "teaching what", but also the difficulty of "who teaches, how to teach, how to evaluate", etc. Shang Hailong said that artificial intelligence is a relatively strong hands-on course, requiring on-board operation, software and hardware coordination, Good public schools will also be equipped with specialized technology classrooms; there are also large differences in the strength of teachers. For example, teachers in the eastern region are basically graduate students, and there are many teachers in the central and western regions who graduate from colleges and universities.
"We are also working hard to help train the layout of primary and secondary school teachers and laboratory software and hardware." Shang Hailong said that this summer, the country's first prefecture-level artificial intelligence education base landed in Shanxi Jinzhong, the first batch of more than 60 teachers received relevant Training and exploring the methods of curriculum education.
After the course is opened, how to evaluate the learning effect? Shang Hailong believes that competition can be a dimension of measurement. Students can show their achievements through international competitions and inter-school exchanges. At present, Shangtang Technology also cooperates with well-known companies in the future to launch the “Shangtang Cup National Middle School Students Artificial Intelligence Competition”, which is widely used by all high school students who like AI to spread the “heroes” and extend the teaching concept from theory to practice.
The Ubisoft also feels that, due to its limited resources, underdeveloped regions are more eager for AI education. Around "Hardware + Software + Faculty + AI Lab Construction + Competition", You must choose to build a closed-loop ecosystem, such as the IEEE competition for high-level students (high school students and college students), and join the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. The RISS Robot Challenge was launched to match the excellent foreign courses with the domestic syllabus, grade progress and social environment. “Small businesses may not have the capacity and strength to build such a large ecology.” (Reporter Xiao Xiaoping)
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