Is today's education ready to teach tomorrow's students?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education for a New Era
Designing the direction of future schools

This book, "AI Education Revolution," is an educational proposal containing practical alternatives and a vision for the role that school education should play in preparing children for a new future.
In the age of artificial intelligence, which is rapidly approaching, education contains specific discussions on what should be taught and how to teach it.
In other words, while fundamentally innovating the content taught to cultivate the capabilities needed for the future, the teaching method also utilizes 'artificial intelligence (AI)' to present an alternative that provides 'individualized education' tailored to the needs of each student.
This means that by leveraging the outstanding technical capabilities of artificial intelligence, we should focus on the essence of education, which values ​​each student's capabilities and achievements rather than competitive learning.
The authors, who have long been dedicated to educational innovation as former and current Ministers of Education, educational policymakers, and professors, reflect on whether today's education is ready to teach tomorrow's students, and suggest that we take practical steps toward even small changes.

He points out that our country's biggest problem is that, although it is good at creating products based on blueprints developed and designed by others in any industry, it lacks the ability to design not only new products but also new industries and platforms.
This means that while the execution capabilities to manufacture products are excellent, the conceptual design capabilities to creatively create new things are lacking.
This problem is directly related to the entrance exam-oriented education that forces students to solve multiple-choice questions and fails to foster the ability to think for themselves.

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High-stakes exams like the CSAT, which place enormous pressure on test takers to the point where a single test can determine their entire lives, will gradually disappear with the introduction of AI tutors. This is because AI tutors will diagnose each student's learning status dozens of times a day using big data and learning analytics.
Moreover, e-portfolios will provide information that analyzes each student's learning history and the growth of their knowledge system in a much more sophisticated way than any high-stakes test.
Students will be able to use their e-portfolios to choose the colleges and careers that best suit them.

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Artificial intelligence and automation technologies aren't just taking over existing jobs.
Historically, while past technologies have led to job losses in certain sectors, overall they have had a positive impact, creating new jobs and increasing workers' incomes.
Artificial intelligence and automation technologies will replace some jobs, but they will also create new jobs to complement them.

As a result, AI is more likely to create new jobs than replace existing ones.
Therefore, AI education should prioritize developing capabilities to understand and prepare for new jobs.

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Since September 2020, the Ministry of Education has been providing an artificial intelligence-based elementary school mathematics class support system (Smart Math Exploration Team, www.toctocmath.kr) to all elementary schools nationwide.
Additionally, the curriculum was partially revised to allow high schools to elect the subjects 'Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals' and 'Artificial Intelligence Mathematics' starting in the second semester of 2021.
In the future, AI education is expected to have a significant impact on the curriculum, as it will be applied not only to specific subjects but also to teaching activities that integrate multiple subjects.

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According to a 2018 survey by global consulting firm McKinsey, 72 percent of companies worldwide will utilize artificial intelligence by 2030, which is expected to lead to an additional $13 trillion in global GDP growth.
He also said that by 2030, many people will have to become accustomed to working alongside artificial intelligence in their daily work.
What is clear is that the way we work is changing dramatically, and our children will be the generation that works alongside artificial intelligence.
In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, schools must go beyond simply memorizing and understanding knowledge and foster students' self-directed capabilities so they can discover what they want as lifelong learners.

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The desire to teach children to memorize even one more English word from a young age to give them a slight edge over the competition is a taboo that must be avoided in the future era of artificial intelligence.
In this rapidly changing era, we need to be open to learning. However, parents' greed for success in the college entrance exam competition makes learning boring for their children and prevents them from experiencing the joy of learning.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest reasons why children in our country fail to become proactive lifelong learners is parents' excessive desire and obsession with their children's grades.
As the well-known Finnish educational philosophy goes, “Teach less, learn more,” parents should intervene less in their children’s learning and not burden them.
The more parents can ease the burden they currently place on their children, the better parents they become.

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As distance learning becomes fully implemented in the wake of COVID-19, the edutech industry is also growing.
In particular, as distance education is helping prevent the spread of the disease and providing successful public education compared to many countries around the world, interest in not only K-quarantine but also 'K-edutech' (hereinafter referred to as K-edu) is growing.

AI education is a key area of ​​the edtech industry.
For K-Edu, including AI education, to continue to develop, edutech must be developed from a perspective that encompasses public policy.

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As many scholars and experts predict, in the future, abilities that can be easily measured by tests will be easily replaced by artificial intelligence.
High-stakes tests fail to assess competencies that cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence.
The existing high-stakes college entrance exam system will eventually be replaced by AI-powered, continuous, personalized assessments and teachers' human connections to assess students' social and cognitive abilities.
In this way, artificial intelligence will play an increasingly significant role in changing the outdated college entrance examination system.
AI education will also significantly change universities.
In the past, universities were not places where anyone could easily enter and learn.
Getting a college education is expensive, time-consuming, and requires a lot of coursework.
However, universities that adopt AI education will become much cheaper, more accessible, and more convenient to learn.
Of course, this kind of transformation of universities is not easy.
In this process, the hierarchy may be destroyed, with existing prestigious universities being eliminated.

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