Busan Office of Education Publishes Textbook "Tell Me About AI Busan" Teaching Through Local Culture

This is the localized textbook "Tell Me About Artificial Intelligence in Busan" published by the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education has published and distributed to middle schools the book "Tell Me About AI in Busan," which teaches the concept of artificial intelligence through local culture and explores solving social issues.

This textbook strengthens school education on software and artificial intelligence in the era of digital transformation. It is designed to solve problems related to AI and Busan's symbols, festivals, and social phenomena through project-based activities.

The textbook was published through collaboration between the AI Education Support Group and Busan SW-centered universities: Busan National University, Dongmyung University, and Dongseo University.

The city plans to use the textbook in AI-themed learning programs for middle school free semester and creative experiential activities.

The textbook consists of three volumes: "Entry AI Learned Through Busan's Symbols," "Arduino AI Learned Through Busan Festivals," and "Scratch AI Learned Through Making a Better Busan."

"Entry AI Learned Through Busan's Symbols" is composed of eight chapters, including Tell and Show Busan's Symbols, Busan Landmarks, Busan Weather, and Busan Travel Destinations.

As a learning process about Busan's local culture, it helps understand the concept of machine learning and experience data value and bias through recommending representative travel destinations.

"Arduino AI Learned Through Busan Festivals" consists of four chapters: What is Entry, Exploring Entry Blocks, What is Arduino, and Arduino AI Learned Through Project Development.

It defines Busan's festivals as expert systems and includes content on deciding Busan's representative festivals using decision trees.

"Scratch AI Learned Through Making a Better Busan" is composed of ten chapters, including Machine Learning, Scratch Introduction, Safe Tap Water, Voice Wheelchair, AI Village Library, Delivery Worker Assistant, and Facial Recognition Access Device.

It is designed to infer the safety of Busan's tap water through image recognition and enhance data value through data collection, analysis, and visualization processes using village library indexing.

The Busan Office of Education also published the "Metaverse in Education, MIE" guidebook nationwide for the first time, helping students deeply understand the digital and real worlds and cultivate balanced values in the metaverse environment.

Superintendent Kim Seok-jun said, "It will greatly help students to experience software and AI education autonomously and develop computational thinking skills."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.