Recently, the 2025 World Robotics Congress and the Android robotics games were held. The two tech events showcased the latest breakthroughs in robotics and embodied intelligence. Experts, scholars, entrepreneurs and representatives of international organizations from all over the world come together to talk about cutting-edge technologies and share the latest products and applications, also let AI technology and the related application once again attracted the attention from the world.
In the field of education, AI is also a hot word that has been mentioned frequently in recent years, bringing about great and profound changes in the industry. At the same time, the outline of the plan for the construction of an educational powerful country (2024-2035) clearly states that“The digitization of education will open up new development tracks and shape new development advantages”, it also puts forward the requirements of“Promoting ai-assisted educational reform” and“Building a large model of AI education”. How to let AI era“Native” children grow up with it, has become an important issue that educators must first face. Earlier this month, at a science fiction-filled“All AI on-line interstellar conference,” the children’s digital content platform called KAO officially launched the“Ai Enlightenment and applications” course, hope to make“Can use AI” become the childhood standard of this era.
This product is designed to help children develop a proper understanding of AI from an early age, to use AI to empower learning and life, and to cultivate a scientific and technological spirit of exploration and a sense of human concern, with a view to opening up new avenues for AI Enlightenment for children aged 5 to 9.”
Ai continues to bring great and profound changes to the industry. Image Credit: Visual China
AI“Infrastructure” remakes education
Every period of Infrastructure Renewal, the development of society to bring endless possibilities, but also to all walks of Out from Under provide a strong support. What is education in the age of Intelligence?
“In the era of AI, Pure Knowledge is ‘devalued, ‘ as opposed to the continued rise in the gold content of learning,” said Wei Wei, founder and CEO of the company, “The goal of education is no longer simply to transfer knowledge, but to develop children’s ability to adapt to the future-the spirit of exploration, innovative thinking, and the ability and habits of active and lifelong learning in happiness.”
Ai-enabled education. Photo: Visual China
Li Dan, vice president of brand marketing and producer of the AI initiation course, explains how AI technology and applications, as a new “Infrastructure”, will reshape the education industry in four ways.
What AI will bring first is a profound change in the way we learn. Since Confucius, “Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude” has been regarded as one of the key points by educators throughout the ages. According to the individual differences of educational objects, it is always an ideal prospect to realize the layered guidance and targeted teaching by observing and understanding students’ aptitude, character and cognitive differences. Now, with the help of AI tools, this vision is expected to be accomplished efficiently. CHATGPT recently launched the“Study and Learn” model, which no longer provides direct and complete answers to questioners. Instead, CHATGPT offers instructional help based on how well users have mastered relevant knowledge and their learning goals, help them“Know it” by guiding them from the ground up to the deep, step-by-step. In this model, the self-drive of learners will play a more important role, the learning process of positive feedback and interest will be enhanced.
In addition to learner-generated changes, AI will also significantly promote the role of teachers to change. In the past, teachers were restricted by the identity of“Imparting knowledge” and the difference of their own professional reserve, and often could only focus on a single subject. In the era of AI, teachers can call on the professional knowledge of various subjects at any time to guide students with encyclopedia guidance to face up to complex practical problems. At the same time, teachers can grasp the progress and differences of all students, and guide the latter to find, analyze, solve and feedback problems in a more matching way. In addition, teaching methods have been greatly enriched, more suitable for children’s cognitive and acceptance of the play-based teaching can be possible.
Under the above-mentioned changes in the roles of teachers and students, the optimization of educational resources will be more efficient and convenient. In the past, everyone yearned for“Great teachers” because they often represented proven teaching paths and models. But as technology continues to improve, a screen, a computer, an internet cable, has become an important sharing“Teacher” resources carrier, “This is what technology means most as an ‘infrastructure’ , just as water and electricity are moving into every corner of the country, equal access to quality education resources and Pratt & Whitney are becoming more and more accessible,” Li Dan says, in the era of mobile internet, the threshold of hardware investment is constantly lowering, “If the settings of screens, computers and Internet cables had to settle down at that time, now that everyone has a mobile phone connected to the internet at any time and place, they can implement a wide range of AI applications. The real arrival of ‘Pu’ and ‘Hui’ will come.”
Of course, updating educational content and educational models is not the end of AI applications. We should take a longer-term view and look to the future to train these AI-era“Aborigines”. Reflected in the educational chain, AI can bring about fundamental changes in the educational evaluation system. The evaluation dimension of test-oriented education is to some extent based on scores, then how to complete the evaluation of the liberal education? The answer, Li Dan argues, is multiple: “We should not seek to compare a particular dimension, but to understand people as comprehensively as possible,” as polygons are often used in games or sports, the more the dimensions, the more the three-dimensional can reflect a role and an athlete’s real location. The educational evaluation system should also construct a polyhedron as far as possible to replace the numerical comparison of single items, aI applications can provide technical support for this.
To know value and ask questions is to know how to use AI
As each new technology comes out and its application is introduced and popularized, how to really learn to use the technology for their own development, has always been an important issue in front of the society and the individual, the same is true in the era of AI. As the“Native” of this era, today’s children and adolescents how to make good use of AI technology, will become whether they can set foot on the technology development“Fast Lane” one of the decisive“Ticket”.
To this end, in the call“AI enlightenment and application” early in the development process, teaching and research team first set up“AI values. If you sum it up in three phrases, the AI values called aid rather than substitute, foster critical thinking, and promote lifelong learning. Such values in the overall context of the above course and all the content are reflected, but also all the teaching and research team’s“Guide to action.”.
In order to create both interesting and practical AI enlightenment curriculum for children, called the special construction of a“New Universe.”. Here, howling, Piggy boys and bells and other residents lived a peaceful life. But the human abuse of AI generated the villain“Data monster” suddenly came, children need to and the main character“Star Di” together, with AI knowledge to collect energy gem, defeat“Data Monster”. Here, Ai background knowledge, life learning application, values training are nested into the adventure story line, the abstract AI concept into a child can understand the“Pass code.”.
Called“Ai Enlightenment and application” picture
“You have to be in the water to learn how to swim.” In particular, a long-term scientific study, called the teaching and research team, found that when 5-to 9-year-olds use AI tools, the general tendency is to use“Single word or short sentence” questions, the keywords are fuzzy so that AI can not accurately understand. Many kids who are interested in AI are stuck in the first step of how to ask the right questions.
“For adults, education should allow them to adapt to knowledge, while for children, it should allow knowledge to adapt to children,” said Gan Wei, editor-in-chief of reading and head of content research, who shared her understanding and experience of children’s content development. To this end, after many rounds of testing and discussion, called the introduction of AI curriculum in the“Three-step golden question”, leading children to“Clear identity-explain needs-in-depth exploration” logic and AI interaction, solve the above problems. “Who am I and what do I do? Ask again. This is a question that children can complete. To sum up these nine words, you need to understand the needs from the perspective of a child.”
Based on this, there are 17 interactive film-level animation classes called AI enlightenment and applications, carefully designed to understand AI, hands-on operation, daily learning application and AI ethics four plates, for children to provide a clear AI“Growth map.”. 36 Ai master classes, which cover“AI learning accelerator”, “AI creative dream factory”, “Ai grow good partner”, etc. , to help children with AI tools for learning efficiency, creative ideas, so that AI becomes a good partner in life, but also to help children set up“Technology to good” the right concept.
In addition, the accompanying physical book Ai Enlightenment for children is a clever integration of AI knowledge in the form of fairy tales, allowing children to imperceptibly understand the balance between technology and the humanities in their adventures, realize AI is a tool, human creativity is the core of the profound concept.
“New universe” continues“Interesting and effective” content gene
“Mind-blowing” has long been a feature of the research and development of content for children. From the first from the picture book in the birth of popular characters chicken“Call”, and later popular science animation, audio stories, children’s drama in more and more rich family IP family, then there was the AI natives of Pippi Town, the cute star who fought the data monster bravely. The beloved animated characters, immersive and interesting content, and the multi-sensory interactive game design were behind it, are called the psychological needs of children, learning interest and growth of the precise grasp of the law-with the story firmly“Stick” children’s attention.
In the field of AI education for children, “What to teach” is important, but“How to let children learn, use” is the core problem.
Wei Wei believes that learning and sports have the same nature-both need to make efforts on their own initiative to achieve growth and progress. The key to effectively motivating people to act and persevere lies in creating attractive content and smart interaction mechanisms.
“It’s like an adventure story where people travel to different worlds and meet different characters. The experience not only captures the attention of children, but also adults,” Wei stressed. Since its inception, call will be“Good story” deeply embedded in the content of the gene. This kind of gene let call always know, only use the narrative way that the child is willing to accept, with knowledge and fun, exploration and growth into the plot, can make learning from passive acceptance to active input, finally achieve the core goal of“Learn and use”.
The newly launched AI enlightenment and applications continues the concept of“Interesting and effective” content that is consistent with each other, it is translated into“Adventure tasks” that children can understand; the screenwriters weave tense and interesting storylines to naturally embed knowledge into the plot; the animation, art, storyboard and other teams use visual language, … Take the abstract AI concept and turn it into a perceptible adventure scenario… … In a course like this, children are no longer passive audience, but in the“New Universe” incarnate to save the town of“Superhero”, in the thrill of the“Data challenge” in the real subtle understanding and learn to use AI knowledge.
In this course development, called also introduced more innovative points, so that the product is more suitable for AI education theme. For example, in the main group of settings, the chicken calls represent smart, active and enthusiastic“E people” children, while Piggy is the silent accumulation, the inner show of the“I people” children’s incarnation. Through the plot, the advantages of children of different personalities will gradually emerge, and in the fight against“Data monster” to gain more confidence. “Just as AI education makes personalized education and multiple evaluations possible, we want to make learning fun and rewarding for everyone from the little piglet to the little piglet,” Li Dan said.
From the early days to the present, called from the pure children’s digital reading brand has grown to be dedicated to awaken interest, cultivate motivation of children’s integrated digital content platform. Called“Ai Enlightenment and application” course release, not only is a child AI education product innovation, but also called“Let children love learning” brand concept in the smart era of vivid practice.
As Wei Wei put it, “What Yingying has been pursuing is a kind of future-oriented learning style.” Today, with the help of AI technology, Yingying hopes to continue to use the style that children like, lead them into the“Digital galaxy” of the first lesson, where you learn to create, touch the future.