Why and What to Teach: AI Curriculum for Elementary School
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With the rapid technological change of society with Artificial Intelligence, elementary schools' goal should be to prepare the next generations according to competencies. We propose an AI curriculum to cultivate students' AI literacy to answer the question of ‘why and what to teach’ on AI. The proposed AI curriculum focuses on achieving AI literacy based on three competencies: AI Knowledge, AI Skill, and AI Attitude. We anticipate that the proposed curriculum will equip students with core competencies for the future with AI.
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Most conceptualisations of AI literacy do not explicitly mention the development of AI.
“This is in line with most conceptualisations of AI literacy where the development of AI is not explicitly mentioned [13, 23, 29]”
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- Authors
- Kim, S., Jang, Y., Kim, W., Choi, S., Jung, H., Kim, S., & Kim, H.
- Affiliations
- Korea University (KR)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Published
- 2021-05-18
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 15569-15576
- ISSN
- 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
- 2374-3468
- OpenAlex
- W3174307976
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 13.48
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Iran Telecommunication Research Center
- Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (IITP-2018, IITP-2018-0-01405)
- Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP-2018-0-01405)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Digital literacy in education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence in education, elementary school curriculum, AI literacy, AI knowledge, AI competencies, attitudes toward AI, competency-based education
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