What does it mean to raise a child in the age of AI? One father is finding out through play
In South Korea, an AI education boom is pushing for children to learn about the tech early to avoid being left behind. For one family, it has become a fun playtime activity that inspires learning.
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In South Korea, an AI education boom is pushing for children to learn about the tech early to avoid being left behind. For one family, it has become a fun playtime activity that inspires learning.
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00:00What does it mean to raise a child in the age of AI?
00:04One father is finding out through play.
00:07Kim Jung-gu writes prompts so that the AI acts like a tutor,
00:11explaining concepts for his space-fascinated son.
00:14It also gives ideas for drawings and turns them into videos.
00:18Hello, I'm Dong-sen.
00:20It's nice to meet you.
00:22Today, we will make a special movie for you.
00:26We go to the library first, once in a week,
00:29and then we explore some books.
00:32And then we make a normal drawing session using the AI.
00:38Five-year-old Do-Han loves planets
00:41and sometimes asks more questions than his parents can answer.
00:45He asked me, what is Yota?
00:48Actually, I didn't have any idea what Yota means.
00:52I go good, but I didn't have any answers of it.
00:55And I just asked to chat to PT.
00:59He just typed, even misspelled Yota.
01:03He just gave us the right answer, what it is.
01:07And I found that it could be really great if I make some knowledge power for him.
01:14Because the creativity comes from the curiosity.
01:17But I believe that that creativity can grow from the knowledge.
01:21So I found the potential that AI could help out those kinds of creativity growth.
01:27Experts say the time spent with AI should be adjusted according to children's ages.
01:33They also say critical thinking is key.
01:36The focus should not be on AI alone.
01:40What is more important is how does that child view JGPT.
01:45If the child does not have any educational experience on learning about how to view these technologies,
01:57Then the child will just view it as someone with greater power and knowledge and that will eventually lead to obeying to the technology.
02:14across South Korea AI is becoming a growing presence in public and private education but
02:25the speed and direction of these developments have raised concerns especially when the tech
02:30is used in tracking students learning well they're trying to create a big data of students
02:36and try to decide what they should learn and I think that is a big problem right now because
02:48what students should learn should be it should be decided by teachers and students themselves it
02:59should be decided by humans not by machines because right now AI is a is a black box we
03:06don't know what's going on in there so it's a it's a very good example of how AI is already
03:13controlling the society Kim says he approaches AI with caution but believes it's important to teach
03:20children to use it as a lifelong tools through play without depending on it my idea is they need to
03:27know that how they can leverage the in terms of using AI for let's say their creativity and their
03:35education European policy makers are moving to introduce AI literacy in education a step
03:41UNESCO calls essential to bridging the digital divide and fostering inclusion