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The Perspective of Elementary School Teachers on Implementation of AI Education in relation to Software Training Experience

소프트웨어 학습경험에 따른 초등교사의 인공지능교육 도입에 대한 인식

  • Lee, Yong-Bae (Dept. of Computer Education, Jeonju National University of Education)
  • 이용배 (전주교육대학교 컴퓨터교육과)
  • Received : 2021.04.17
  • Accepted : 2021.05.25
  • Published : 2021.06.30
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Abstract

Ministry of education recently announced to implement AI curriculum in elementary, middle school and highschool from 2025 which will include programing, basic AI principal and AI Ethics, and the media is releasing articles that have reservations on it. This study is focused on analyzing the perspective of elementary teachers - who are going to be in charge of AI education - on the implementation of AI education in elementary schools and the teachers are divided into two groups of 'software-experienced' and 'software-inexperienced' in relation to software training background. The results showed that 100% of the 'software-experienced' teachers agreed on implementing AI education and 80% of 'software-inexperienced' teachers also showed positive perspective on it. Among the reasons that 20% of 'software-inexperienced' teachers had negative perspective on AI education, it was highly rated that existing home economics subject covers fulfilling amount of software education. Both 'software-experienced' and 'software-inexperienced' teachers chose grade 5 and 6 as the most appropriate age for software education and considered one class per a week as the most appropriate amount of AI class. In terms of the subject format, 75% of the 'software-experienced' teachers chose the idea that software education has to be an independent school subject which will include AI education. Also, 54% of the 'software-inexperienced' teachers chose the ideas either AI education should be an independent subject or software education should be an independent subject which will include AI education. The preference of the content of AI education appeared in order of basic AI programing, principles of AI and AI Ethics.

교육부는 최근 2025년부터 초중고에 인공지능교육을 도입한다고 발표하였고 언론에서는 인공지능교육 도입에 대한 우려를 나타내는 기사들을 내보내고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초등학교에서 실제 인공지능교육을 담당할 교사를 대상으로 인공지능교육 도입에 대한 인식을 분석하는데 주안점을 두고 소프트웨어와 관련된 학습경험이 많은 교사와 학습경험이 적은 교사로 구분하여 조사하였다. 분석결과, 학습경험이 많은 교사는 인공지능교육 도입에 100% 찬성의 입장을 나타내었고 학습경험이 적은 교사는 80%가 긍정적 의사를 나타내었다. 학습경험이 적은 교사의 20%가 반대하는 원인 중에는 현재의 실과 교과에 포함된 소프트웨어 단원으로도 충분하다가 높은 비율로 나타났다. 학습경험이 많은 교사와 학습경험이 적은 교사 모두 적절한 교육시기로 5-6학년을 가장 많이 선택했고 교육시수는 주당 1시간을 가장 적절한 시수로 보았다. 교과 구성 형식은 학습경험이 많은 교사의 75%가 소프트웨어교육을 독립교과로 하고 그 안에 인공지능교육을 포함시키는 방안을 선택하였고 학습경험이 적은 교사의 54%가 인공지능교육을 독립교과로 하거나 소프트웨어교육을 독립교과로 하고 인공지능교육을 그 안에 포함시키는 방안을 선택하였다. 교육내용의 선호도는 인공지능 프로그래밍 기초, 인공지능 개념 원리, 인공지능 윤리 순으로 나타났다.

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