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http://dx.doi.org/10.14352/jkaie.2021.25.3.449

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

Lee, Yong-Bae (Dept. of Computer Education, Jeonju National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education / v.25, no.3, 2021 , pp. 449-457 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
AI Education; Perspective on Implementation of AI Education; Desired School Grade for AI Education; Desired Number of AI Class per Week; Reasons to Agree with AI Education;
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