"Tum left! Tum right!" In the information technology class, Zhang Ruixuan was controlling a robot to move around. What a wonderful and 1 classroom!
"This is part of our artificial intelligence (AI) courses," said the 10th grader 2 Beijing 101 Middle School. The school 3 Al classes to both junior and senior high school students. Students want to learn more, 4 there are also optional (选修的) courses, apart from compulsory (必修的) courses that teach basic knowledge. That means students have more 5 .
"This term in our compulsory class, we have 6 learned to code (编程) using a programming language called Python," said Zhang. Using Python to code is a 7 skill for training AI models. In recent years, Python has been 8 in high school graduation exams in places like Beijing, Jiangsu and Anhui.
9 , having AI education in schools has become a growing trend in many places, with Zhejiang Province being a typical example. In 2020, Zhejiang added AI 10 into textbooks from Grade 5 in primary school all the way to senior high. In the city of Wenzhou, the government is planning to 11 1,000 AI experimental schools by 2025.
"With the development of 12 , our textbooks have been changing all the time," said ShangVin, an IT teacher from Beijing 101 Middle School. "From typing to using Word and Excel, and then today's coding and AI, the courses are 13 the times and teaching students necessary skills." In the future, there will be more jobs where AI knowledge is 14 . Even in daily life, people may need to understand things like ChatGPT and things on the Internet. "AI education will become increasingly 15 ," Shang added. People are looking forward to more information technology classes.