• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.71-76
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• 2022

The innovative development of the 4th industry and the COVID-19 pandemic caused a great change in the education, eventually requiring elementary, middle and high schools, including kindergartens, to implement artificial intelligence(AI) education. However, since early childhood AI education is conducted in the form of results-oriented and special activities, the need for research on what early childhood AI education is and how to apply it to the Nuri curriculum has been raised. Accordingly, this study defined early childhood AI education through literature research, identified the contents of AI education, and organized and operated it in the Nuri curriculum. As a results, AI education for children should be conducted for the purpose of cultivating digital capabilities based on computing thinking skills, and computers, the Internet, and programs were extracted as sub-elements of child AI education contents. Two approaches were proposed to incorporate this into the Nuri curriculum. The first is to set each of the three AI education contents as a life theme, select sub-factors accordingly, and plan and implement activities suitable for each sub-factors. The second is to develop and operate AI education contents at the level of sub-educational activities in accordance with the life theme of the existing Nuri curriculum. It is hoped that this study will consider the characteristics of early childhood education and be organized in the Nuri curriculum to realize the true meaning of early childhood AI education, and more research on AI play education programs according to the five areas of the Nuri curriculum.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.203-210
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• 2021

This study was conducted to develop a convergence education program using smart farms with both input data(temperature, humidity, etc.) and output data(vegetables, fruits, etc.) that are easily accessible in everyday life so that elementary school students can intuitively and easily understand the principles of artificial intelligence(AI) learning. In order to develop this program, we conducted a prior study analysis of a horticulture, software, robot units in the 2015 Practical Arts curriculum and artificial intelligence education. Based on this, 13 components and 16 achievement criteria were selected, and AI programs of 4 sessions(a total of 8 hours). This program can be used as a reference when developing various teaching materials for artificial intelligence education in the future.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.149-174
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to explore the teaching and learning method using artificial intelligence (AI) in the mathematics classroom. To this end, to predict the direction of mathematics education using AI in the mathematics classroom, this study investigates the fields where AI is applied to education, and discuss issues to consider when introducing AI through scenario development using AI in middle school statistics. This study is meaningful in that it specifically considered how artificial intelligence can be grafted into the mathematics classroom through the development of scenarios that integrate and apply artificial intelligence that has been developed and used segmentally in the current middle school statistics. Afterwards, based on the contents of this study, implications for using AI in the math classroom were derived.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2022

With the development of artificial intelligence, society is moving toward another world that has never existed before. As a result, interest in artificial intelligence education is also increasing, and research on artificial intelligence education is being conducted more actively in Korea. However, many studies have been conducted focusing on the upper grades of elementary school, and curriculum and programs for the lower grades are still insufficient. Therefore, in this study, a total of 6 sessions of artificial intelligence programs were developed to understand image recognition for the lower grades of elementary school. The validity was secured by conducting expert validity for 8 experts, and the effectiveness was verified through the pre-post-response sample t-test by applying it to the experimental group. As a result, both artificial intelligence understanding and artificial intelligence attitude showed statistically significant results, and both the interest and difficulty of educational programs were found to be suitable for lower grade students. Based on the contents of this study, it is necessary to review its application and effectiveness in various environments through follow-up studies in the future.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2021.08a
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• pp.233-237
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• 2021

With the advent of the 4th industrial revolution, interest in artificial intelligence education is increasing in elementary schools. In order to nurture future talents with artificial intelligence capabilities, AI education should be actively conducted at school sites. Although basic software education is provided in the 2015 revised curriculum, there is a tendency to view the programming process that creates artificial intelligence only as a problem-solving process. However, when creating an artificial intelligence, the value of the developer who creates artificial intelligence is projected. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with the contents of artificial intelligence value judgment during SW education. This study has limitations due to the fact that Delphi research was conducted with a group of experts. In the future, it is judged that quantitative research should be conducted to supplement these limitations.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.49-54
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• 2022

Rapid changes in modern society after the COVID-19 have highlighted artificial intelligence talent as a major influencing factor in determining national competitiveness. Accordingly, the Ministry of Education planned a large-scale SW·AI camp education project to develop the digital capabilities of 4th to 6th grade elementary school students and middle and high school students who are in a vacuum in artificial intelligence education. Therefore, this study aims to develop a camp-type SW·AI education program for students in grades 4-6 of elementary school so that students in grades 4-6 of elementary school can acquire basic knowledge in artificial intelligence. For this, the meaning of SW·AI education in elementary school is defined and SW·AI contents to be dealt with in elementary school are: understanding of SW AI, 'principle and application of SW AI', and 'social impact of SW AI' was set. In addition, an attempt was made to link the set elements of elementary school SW AI education and learning with related subjects and units of textbooks currently used in elementary schools. As for the program used for education, entry, a software coding learning tool based on block coding, is designed to strengthen software programming basic competency, and all programs are designed to be operated centered on experience and experience-oriented participants in consideration of the developmental characteristics of elementary school students. In order for SW·AI education to be organized and operated as a member of the regular curriculum, it is suggested that research based on the analysis of regular curriculum contents and in-depth analysis of SW·AI education contents is necessary.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.457-465
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• 2022

The government has proposed various policies to 'extend the time for teaching information education in elementary schools'. However, in the 2022 revised practical arts (technical·home economics) curriculum, information education is still organized for only 17 hours the same as before, and there is not enough connection with the middle school information subject. In this study, policies related to information education in elementary schools such as National Strategy of Artificial Intelligence, Comprehensive Plan of Information Education, Education Policy Direction and Core Tasks in the Artificial Intelligence Era, and Digital Talent Education Plan were analyzed. In addition, after the '2022 revised national curriculum guidelines' was announced in 2021, the problems of the practical arts curriculum were analyzed by analyzing materials of the draft proposal of the curriculum and comments posted on the Public Participation Communication Channel. Finally, I suggested a plan to link the 2022 revised practical arts (technology·home economic) curriculum to the information subject of middle school in detail, and to expand information education in elementary schools.

• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• v.72
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• pp.183-203
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to construct factors of AI education utilization competency. AI education utilization competency is used as basic data for education to enhance the AI education competency of pre-service early childhood teachers. To this end, 7 studies related to competency factors and models were selected by searching for previous studies. Seven preceding studies were analyzed. As a result, 18 competency factors were extracted, including understanding of artificial intelligence. The extracted competency elements were divided into six areas, which are divided into understanding subject knowledge through coding, class preparation, class management, class result feedback, class guidance, and self-development. And 15 factors were constructed. The draft formed through coding was improved through review by three early childhood education experts. Factors improved through expert review were structured by classifying them into knowledge, skills, and attitudes to organize the curriculum. The validity of the structured competency factor was verified through expert Delphi. As a result of the Delphi verification, all factors were converged in the first survey. Through this, 6 competency areas, 11 competency factors, and 19 competency factors were composed of knowledge, 10 skills, and 5 attitudes. The implication is that the competency factors presented as a result of this study can be used as basic data for organizing a curriculum to improve the ability of pre-service early childhood teachers to use artificial intelligence education.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.761-768
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• 2021

Recently, various platforms and contents for artificial intelligence education have been developed, but artificial intelligence education programs for the lower grades of elementary school are insufficient. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop an artificial intelligence education program for learners in the lower grades of elementary school. It was designed using the Novel Engineering with various convergence education research cases for software education. After the first program was developed, it was verified by expert validity test, and the program was modified and developed accordingly. It was necessary to construct a program based on spoken language rather than written language in consideration of the level of learners in the lower grades in the process of acquiring Hangeul, and to secure the number of educational hours through integration between subjects. It is expected that this study can suggest a new direction for artificial intelligence education for elementary and lower grade learners.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.17-30
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• 2020

Although the importance of Artificial Intelligence(AI) education is increasing, research on the development of test tools has not been conducted in AI education research in Korea has not been conducted. Accordingly, there is a limit to designing AI curriculum and analyzing the effect of the educational program. So, in this study, Test tool was developed that to measure the attitude toward artificial intelligence of middle school students. For the development of test tools, the objectives, components, factors, and test tools were developed through the discussion of AI education experts. The test tool was finally developed by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, the criteria of the developed test tool were analyzed. Future research is needed to analyze the effects of educational programs and to analyze factors affecting attitudes toward artificial intelligence in middle school students using developed test tools.