"This conference is a conference for China to take the initiative to take responsibility for global digital education governance. On January 30, at the 2024 World Conference on Digital Education held in Shanghai, Miao Fengchun, Director of the Education Informatization and Artificial Intelligence Education Department at UNESCO Headquarters, said that the digital transformation of education is becoming a trend in the development of global education reform and a global consensus. At this conference, China and the world shared China's wisdom on promoting the digitalization of education, which is of great significance for further narrowing the "digital divide" in global education.
With the evolution and upgrading of intelligent technologies such as generative artificial intelligence and big data, technology and education have gradually formed a new pattern of systematic and deep integration of all fields, all elements, all chains, and all businesses. In this regard, Miao Fengchun pointed out: "Generative AI will have a direct and far-reaching impact on the core values of education, such as equality, inclusiveness, and the initiative and values of learning subjects, as well as linguistic and cultural diversity and knowledge construction diversity. ”
The high degree of automation of the content generation process and the difficulty of discriminating the results generated by generative AI technology will force the curriculum and evaluation goals to change from 'content enrichment' to '**affluence'. In his view, the potential advantage of generative AI in the field of teaching is not to support the acquisition of factual knowledge, but to provide divergent thinking perspectives and literature review breadth for first-class learning, which cannot be reached by human information processing capabilities. At the same time, through the condensed review of the content and the "supercharge" processing of the data, the efficiency of high-level thinking and activities can be improved.
We can tap into the potential of generative AI-based 'superchargers' for sexual activities and explore the research assistant model or the research learning assistant model. Miao Fengchun said that from the perspective of scientific discovery, the breakthrough of artificial intelligence basic model in data collection, mining, calculation, etc., provides human beings with the fourth type of scientific discovery paradigm after observation, experiment, and reasoning - "scientific discovery based on artificial intelligence".
In addition, he pointed out that it should be noted that the motivation in the research assistant model cannot be triggered automatically by the provision of technology, but must be guided by the adjustment of curriculum and assessment objectives, the stimulation and guidance of teachers' instructional design, and finally by students' self-guidance. "In particular, we should pay attention to giving full play to the advantages of human beings in the definition of meaningful problems, aggregate thinking, and epiphany of problem solving methods, so as to realize the mutual enhancement of human and machine intelligence. Miao Fengchun said. (China Education Daily-China Education News Network reporter Huang Lulu).
Author: Huang Lulu.