According to a 2020 report, Chinese parents spend 30 to 50% of their annual household income on their children's education, which shows how much Chinese parents attach importance to education.
But with the sudden outbreak of a new generation of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT, "education" has borne the brunt and suffered a huge impact.
Looking at the overwhelming reports, in the hustle and bustle of **, the word "unemployment" is the word most related to "artificial intelligence" or "chatgpt".
Many parents have added some new anxieties to their children's performance anxiety in the past
What jobs will not be replaced by AI in the future?
What major should my child choose in order to get this job?
AI can write and draw, is it still useful for children to learn this?
How to keep your children from falling behind in the AI era?
Countless questions linger in the minds of parents, and everyone feels anxious and even confused.
Teacher Shen Zuyun, an education expert and expert on school organizational change, recently published an education report that specifically talks about this issue.
The release of GPT has brought an unprecedented impact on the education system, and the original technological innovation may only bring about changes in learning methods, such as computers, mobile phones, search engines, etc., but this GPT directly impacts the learning content, and the last position in the hands of educators is also facing the danger of being lost.
In traditional education, almost all curriculum systems and textbooks require students to master the classical knowledge that has been precipitated over the past thousands of years.
However, with artificial intelligence, many basic learning tasks can be handed over to AI to complete. In the past, if you didn't study physics or accounting, you had to go online and teach yourself, but now, you just need to work with AI to complete physics or accounting-related tasks.
Knowledge doesn't need to be learned, so what do students learn in school?
Teacher Shen Zuyun summarized the current trend in two aspects:
First, the curriculum with the transformation of the world as the core has begun to be valued;
Second, the content involving the quality of thinking and the cultivation of social emotions can no longer be bypassed.
First, let's look at the first question, what is a curriculum centered on transforming the world?
In fact, there are so many courses in the school, which can be roughly divided into two categories. One is science and humanities, such as Chinese, mathematics, chemistry, etc., whose main function is to help us understand the worldBut there is also a large category that is directly driven by the transformation of the world, such as engineering, technology, and other fields that need to be practiced, as well as the fields of social research such as geography, law, psychology, economics, etc.
In the past, school education paid more attention to the curriculum of understanding the world, which required more knowledge and skills to memorize and master, but was often neglected in the area of participating in and transforming the world. But now, as soon as artificial intelligence comes, it urges us to make up for this shortcoming.
Now let's think about the second question: what to learn?It will not be replaced by AI.
There are two main aspects to decide what is more worth learning: one is the quality of people's thinking, and the other is people's social emotions. These two points are the key qualities that make us human beings.
So how to understand the improvement of the quality of thinking?If we want to make a product, AI can help us draw drawings and constantly modify the shape, but in the process, how do we define the problem?How to face the dilemma?How to extract information, compare and analyze, inductively deduce, and finally make choices and decisions is up to people. The quality of thinking can only be cultivated in the process of solving problems.
What is Social-Emotional?You can simply understand it as the various emotions necessary for people to interact and cooperate with each other, such as empathy, responsibility, morality...Concern and empathy for the state of life are difficult for machines to sense, and only the development of social emotions can make people more human.
The core subversion of the reconstruction of "learning content" in the AI era is that it will put an end to the one-size-fits-all education model and usher in the era of personalized education.