GuShiio.com ① Beijing City’s work plan to promote artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools was released. Starting from the fall semester of 2025, primary and secondary schools in the city will carry out artificial intelligence general education, with no less than 8 class hours per school year to achieve full popularization of primary and secondary school students.
② Schools can set up artificial intelligence courses independently or integrate them with information technology and other courses.
Financial Union reported on March 7 that Beijing City released a work plan to promote artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. Starting from the fall semester of 2025, primary and secondary schools in the city will carry out artificial intelligence general education, with no less than 8 class hours per school year to achieve comprehensive popularization of primary and secondary school students. Schools can set up artificial intelligence courses independently, or they can integrate them with courses such as information technology (information technology), general technology, science, comprehensive practical activities, and labor. Focus on cultivating 100 professional teachers and 1000 key teachers in the field of artificial intelligence education in Beijing City in batches, radiating and driving all teachers. For teachers who have made outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence education, we will increase preferential support in terms of teaching achievement selection, professional title review, performance guarantee, etc.
Beijing City Work Plan for Promoting Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2025-2027)
In order to conscientiously implement the spirit of the National Education Conference, in accordance with the requirements of documents such as the “Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools”(Education and Infrastructure Department Letter [2024] No. 32), relying on the curriculum system and using typical scenario applications, we will accelerate the construction of an artificial intelligence education system and model in primary and secondary schools with the characteristics of the capital, and formulate this work plan.
1. Build a multi-level artificial intelligence education curriculum system
(1) Build municipal general basic courses. Implement the requirements of national curriculum plans and curriculum standards, and open up sufficient courses related to artificial intelligence education. Explore the establishment of local courses for artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools, develop the “Local Curriculum Outline for Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in Beijing City (Trial)”, and compile teaching guides for artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools based on the cognitive abilities of students in different stages. Student study manuals, develop supporting curriculum resources with diverse forms and dynamically updated forms, and timely reflect new technologies, new methods, and new achievements.
(2) Explore the characteristics of district schools to expand courses. Encourage all districts, primary and secondary schools to explore and build artificial intelligence education expansion courses with regional characteristics and school characteristics, and incorporate artificial intelligence education into after-school services, club activities, study practice and other education systems. Give full play to the advantages of Beijing City’s scientific and technological innovation resources, and cooperate with leading enterprises, universities, new R & D institutions, industry associations, etc. to develop a number of large and medium-sized comprehensive courses for artificial intelligence education and school-enterprise joint courses.
(3) Create a number of high-level innovative courses. Promote the construction of a system and mechanism for “universities + enterprises + middle schools” to jointly cultivate top-notch innovative talents in artificial intelligence, combine the “nursery” project, explore cooperation between universities and middle schools to develop artificial intelligence talent cultivation models, and create a number of artificial intelligence for the early training of top-notch innovative talents. Advanced education courses. Through methods such as “unveiling the list and taking charge”, we have extensively mobilized all sectors of society to participate and absorbed social resources to continuously enrich and improve high-level innovative courses.
2. Build a normalized artificial intelligence education and teaching system
(4) Coordinate the organization and implementation of classroom teaching. Starting from the fall semester of 2025, primary and secondary schools in the city will carry out artificial intelligence general education, with no less than 8 class hours per school year to achieve full popularization of primary and secondary school students. Schools can set up artificial intelligence courses independently, or they can integrate them with courses such as information technology (information technology), general technology, science, comprehensive practical activities, and labor. Innovate classroom teaching methods, use AI study partners, AI teaching and research assistants and other agents to carry out human-computer dialogue learning, personalized adaptive learning, integrate interdisciplinary, large-unit and project-based teaching design, explore new scenarios of “future classroom”, and Build a new “teacher-student-machine” relationship. Promote the reform of teaching evaluation, use artificial intelligence technology to carry out learning situation analysis and homework diagnosis, and build a new intelligent teaching and learning model of “learning to determine teaching-teaching in accordance with aptitude-promoting teaching through evaluation”.
(5) Explore scientific and standardized education paradigms. The primary school stage focuses on experiential courses, focusing on enlightening students ‘artificial intelligence thinking; the junior high school stage focuses on cognitive courses, focusing on guiding students to use artificial intelligence to empower their own study and life; the high school stage focuses on comprehensive and practical courses, focusing on strengthening students’ artificial intelligence application capabilities and innovative spirit. The artificial intelligence curriculum system of each school section focuses on organic connection, and immerses the entire process of artificial intelligence ethics and moral education, cultivates students ‘awareness of data security and privacy protection, learns to correctly handle the relationship between people, technology, and society, and guides students to be scientific, reasonable, and safe. Use generative artificial intelligence tools prudently.
(6) Expand the field of artificial intelligence education. Explore a new “dual-teacher classroom” organization and implementation model empowered by AI to promote the high-quality and balanced development of basic education in the city. Promote the establishment of artificial intelligence education consortiums among group schools, alliance schools, and urban and rural hand-in-hand schools, promote the co-construction and sharing of high-quality curriculum resources, and narrow the gap in artificial intelligence education between urban and rural areas. Encourage universities, scientific research institutes, high-tech enterprises, and social resource units to open artificial intelligence laboratories, experience halls, comprehensive exhibition halls, science and technology museums, museums and other resources to primary and secondary school students, and build artificial intelligence practice bases outside primary and secondary schools, allowing students to experience in real scenes., learn, explore and practice, and improve the quality of thinking and comprehensive ability to use artificial intelligence to solve problems.
3. Build a ubiquitous artificial intelligence education support system
(7) Build a municipal basic support platform. Upgrade the Beijing City Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools (Beijing City Air Classroom), expand and develop the artificial intelligence education public service platform, and provide basic resource support, subject knowledge map, learning practice platform, and teacher training communities at the municipal level. It gathers course packages, model libraries, and tool sets from all parties, and selects and uses them on demand to promote the sharing of high-quality resources, the return of learning data, the iterative update of courses, and the expansion of application scenarios. Create a one-stop “Beijing Basic Education Artificial Intelligence Application Supermarket”. Encourage all districts and schools to make full use of relevant resources of platforms such as smart education in national primary and secondary schools, and proactively provide high-quality curriculum resources to the platform.
(8) Optimize the supporting environment for smart education. Accelerate the improvement of the “cloud-network-edge-end” integrated infrastructure of the city’s education system, introduce independently controllable open source AI frameworks and tools, and support teachers in carrying out artificial intelligence education and teaching and students ‘independent learning. Encourage all districts to coordinate the layout and balance the allocation, and regard the construction of diversified and high-level artificial intelligence education laboratories in primary and secondary schools as an important direction for the construction of smart campuses. Carry out the “Smart Campus +” action to support 100 new smart campus demonstration schools to carry out intelligent transformation and create typical application scenarios, and transform application scenarios into exploratory project courses, forming a development pattern of “hundreds of schools leading thousands of schools”.
(9) Standardize access to artificial intelligence applications. Support artificial intelligence research institutions and education and teaching research institutions to jointly establish artificial intelligence testing sites, formulate evaluation standards for educational artificial intelligence products that are in line with the laws of education and teaching, carry out evaluation of education, teaching and learning assistance capabilities of artificial intelligence products by disciplines and types, and promote compliance access to artificial intelligence products for primary and secondary education in the city. Schools are encouraged to use large models dedicated to the vertical field of education to derive more typical application scenarios of artificial intelligence.
4. Build a multi-channel artificial intelligence education teacher system
(10) Establish a team of artificial intelligence teachers. Select interested and basic teachers from information technology (information technology), general technology, science, mathematics and other disciplines to form a team of artificial intelligence education teachers. Encourage qualified districts and schools to enrich the team of artificial intelligence education teachers through open recruitment, talent introduction, and job transfer cultivation. Coordinate the establishment of advanced artificial intelligence teacher training courses such as general education, application, and research to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of teacher training. Combined with technologies such as virtual digital humans, we will create high-level AI teachers through large models and collaborate in carrying out artificial intelligence education. Actively introduce teachers from social forces, form “AI Education Lecturer Groups” at the city and district levels, and explore mechanisms for professionals from universities, scientific research institutes, and high-tech enterprises to carry out artificial intelligence education in schools on a regular basis.
(11) Strengthen the teaching and research of artificial intelligence education. Municipal and district teaching and research departments have incorporated artificial intelligence education into the scope of regular teaching and research, combined with the development of “global teaching and research”, developed innovation guidelines for teaching artificial intelligence enabled subjects in primary and secondary schools, integrated AI technology into education and teaching in various disciplines, and promoted curriculum teaching reform., improve teachers ‘digital literacy and application capabilities. Focusing on key contents such as science education, physical education and aesthetic education, and labor education, we will explore new ideas, new plans, and new paths for teaching and research work supported by artificial intelligence for important links such as teaching design, homework design, after-school services, and comprehensive practice.
(12) Cultivate and select professional backbone teachers. Implement the “Hundred and Thousand Seeds Plan” for primary and secondary school teachers in the city, attract teachers from relevant disciplines to participate, focus on cultivating 100 professional teachers and 1000 key teachers in the field of artificial intelligence education in Beijing City in batches, and radiate and drive all teachers. For teachers who have made outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence education, we will increase preferential support in terms of teaching achievement selection, professional title review, performance guarantee, etc.
5. Build a three-dimensional artificial intelligence education application system
(13) Empowering the integrated training system of five educations. Explore AI-enabled scene-based, immersive, and integrated practical education systems with the characteristics of the capital, and continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of “big ideological and political courses”. Use artificial intelligence, robots and other technologies to enrich the “quarter of an hour between classes” activities to help integrate education within and after classes. Expand application scenarios in AI+ smart sports, AI+ aesthetic education infiltration, AI+ labor education, etc., improve students ‘physical fitness, cultivate students’ aesthetic taste and cultural literacy, and deepen students ‘understanding of the value of labor. Explore AI-driven comprehensive quality evaluation of students to help students personalized and diversified development.
(14) Empowering students to develop physically and mentally healthily. Establish a health education and teaching resource database covering the entire school section, use artificial intelligence and big data technology to form students ‘healthy growth files, carry out normalized psychological monitoring and analysis, and build AI health instructors who accompany them around the clock. Build a “teaching consortium” for collaborative education between home-school and community, use artificial intelligence technology to expand the ways and channels of home-school communication, explore new “parent schools” empowered by AI, and provide parents with ubiquitous and accurate learning and education services to achieve The same frequency resonates and helps students grow.
(15) Empowering the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents. Encourage qualified districts and schools to build student artificial intelligence innovation laboratories and create a smart supporting environment for top-notch innovative talents in artificial intelligence to stand out. Give full play to the role of the Beijing Youth Innovation Institute and district branches to organize summer (winter) camps on themes such as artificial intelligence. Encourage students to enter high-end laboratories or practice bases in universities or scientific research institutes to participate in experimental research work on new generation artificial intelligence technology.
6. Build a multi-dimensional artificial intelligence education promotion system
(16) Build a number of demonstration schools in demonstration areas. On the basis of the National Science Education Experimental Zone (School) and the National Artificial Intelligence Education Base, by promoting the construction of the Beijing City Artificial Intelligence Education Demonstration Zone and Demonstration School, combined with the construction of smart campuses and other work, we will further open up application scenarios, summarize mature experience, and strengthen Work promotion, give full play to the leading role of demonstration, and comprehensively promote the implementation of artificial intelligence education.
(17) Organize and carry out various exchange activities. Carry out collection and selection activities for artificial intelligence education cases and application scenarios, and select and form a number of excellent cases and typical scenarios. Encourage diversified exchange activities such as artificial intelligence technology festivals, artificial intelligence works exhibitions, and artificial intelligence classroom teaching displays, and set up artificial intelligence education special areas in excellent classroom teaching display activities in basic education in Beijing City.
(18) Create an artificial intelligence education environment. Increase publicity and promotion efforts, unite multiple social forces to expand activity exchange platforms, strengthen cooperation and co-education between families, schools and communities, guide students to perceive and experience artificial intelligence in personal life, campus life and social life, master necessary artificial intelligence knowledge and skills, and stimulate students ‘interest in learning, improve their artificial intelligence literacy, cultivate the spirit of scientific inquiry, and cultivate innovative talents for the future.
7. Strengthen the implementation guarantee of artificial intelligence education
(19) Strengthen system support. The municipal education department has overall coordinated the establishment of a working mechanism for departmental coordination and urban linkage, and provided support in the construction of the curriculum system, teacher team training, platform and environment construction. Urban schools should ensure artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools as an important part of the construction of smart campuses and artificial intelligence education bases, and increase funding investment. Guide and encourage social investment to form a diversified funding mechanism.
(20) Strengthen follow-up guidance. Establish an Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in Beijing City to organize experts and talents from universities, scientific research institutes, and high-tech enterprises to carry out research and apply cutting-edge technologies to artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. Establish an education and teaching steering committee to guide the school’s curriculum system construction and the innovation of education models, methods and paths. Incorporate the implementation of artificial intelligence education by education administrative departments and primary and secondary schools in each district into the education quality supervision and evaluation system, regularly carry out quality evaluations and teaching inspections, and guide schools to solidly carry out artificial intelligence education.
(21) Strengthen open collaboration. Give full play to the advantages of Beijing City in scientific and technological innovation and resource convergence, promote close cooperation between primary and secondary schools and universities, scientific research institutes, teaching and scientific research institutions, and high-tech enterprises, innovate the “teaching-learning-research-industry” cooperation mechanism, and promote high-quality artificial intelligence resources Deep integration and collaborative innovation with primary and secondary education. Carry out the “Artificial Intelligence + Education” action in depth, coordinate and plan the balanced layout and coordinated development among regions, schools, and groups, and achieve scientific planning, step-by-step advancement, and coordinated development of artificial intelligence education curriculum construction, teacher construction and talent training.
