What changes can AI bring to education?

Economic Observation Network reporter Zheng Weixin on December 16, at the 2021 Global Artificial Intelligence and Education Big Data Conference, Liu Limin, former vice minister of the Ministry of Education of China and president of the China Education Association for International Exchanges, said that artificial intelligence is an effective means to achieve the reconstruction of education ecology, and the deep and wide application of artificial intelligence technology in education will completely change the spatio-temporal scene and supply level of education.

According to the data provided by Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, at present, the networking rate of primary and secondary schools (including teaching points) in the country has reached 100%, 99.9% of schools with export bandwidth of 100 megabytes, about three-quarters of schools have achieved wireless network coverage, 99.5% of primary and secondary schools have multimedia classrooms, and teacher terminals are basically popularized. The national primary and secondary school network cloud platform, which was urgently built during the epidemic last year, provides more than 8,000 digital course teaching resources and more than 1,000 special education resources covering all grades and disciplines free of charge, providing support for 180 million primary and secondary school students to learn online and teachers to improve teaching, with a total of 5.9 billion views so far.

Lu Yugang believes that promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education will have a revolutionary impact on teachers' optimization of teaching, personalized learning of students, and reduction of excessive academic burden.

Zhu Zhiwen, former vice minister of the Ministry of Education of China and president of the China Education Association, also pointed out in his speech that artificial intelligence is the biggest variable affecting the future form of education.

From the perspective of demand, the continuous maturity and wide application of artificial intelligence technology will directly affect the form of all walks of life, and spawn new industries, put forward new requirements for talent training, and then force education reform. From the supply level, the application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of education will make the opportunities for education more diverse, the content of education more abundant, the way of learning more flexible, and the way to obtain education more convenient, "With the superposition of demand and supply-level influences, the impact of artificial intelligence on education will not only be limited to the technical level, but will gradually go deep into the conceptual and institutional level, which is a long-lasting and influential deep-seated change," Zhu Zhiwen said.

In this change, Zhu Zhiwen suggested that the construction of artificial intelligence hardware is important, but more importantly, to truly apply artificial intelligence technology to education and teaching In the artificial intelligence education environment, teachers and students are the two core elements of education, and schools are the main places of educational activities.

In the new teaching model, the way teachers are currently teaching is right? Can the way of teaching interact with students? Wu Xiaoru, President of iFLYTEK, introduced that artificial intelligence can conduct multi-modal data analysis of teaching data and audio through the massive data collected, and obtain real-time feedback through various analysis and calculations, so as to regulate the behavior of teachers teaching and learning.

Liu Limin believes that through "artificial intelligence + education" to support schools to carry out various after-school education activities, open more and better learning resources to the society, and the popularization of artificial intelligence education should also start from dolls to improve students' information literacy.