Busan Office of Education, Establishes Jeonggwan Middle School Digital Education Center

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education is establishing a 'Digital Education Center' at Jeonggwan Middle School in Gijang-gun to serve as a future education hub for the Haeundae area.

On the morning of the 12th, Busan Metropolitan Office of Education announced that it held the opening ceremony of the Jeonggwan Middle School 'Digital Education Center,' attended by about 50 officials including Ha Yun-su, Superintendent of Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, and Jeong Jong-bok, Mayor of Gijang-gun.

The 'Digital Education Center' is a training and experience space established within a digital-based future education hub school to generalize classes utilizing digital new technologies related to the 4th Industrial Revolution such as SW·AI, Big Data, IoT, Robotics, AR/VR, and Metaverse.

During the design process, the center reflected the opinions of Jeonggwan Middle School students and was composed of ▲ a visual experience space using future-type displays and media walls ▲ a flexible complex education space for learning, rest, experience, and collaboration activities ▲ a space for idea sharing, discussions, and collaborative activities using digital equipment.

The opening ceremony of Jeonggwan Middle School Digital Education Center is currently underway.

At the opening ceremony, AI Art Design (Art) and Robot Programming (Information) classes, which are student-centered classes based on digital collaboration and communication, were publicly demonstrated.

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education plans to continuously operate various digital-based open classes to spread educational activities applying digital new technologies to local schools.

Ha Yun-su, Superintendent of Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “This center will be a space that realizes digital-based classes and greatly helps to enhance the digital capabilities of the educational community,” adding, “I hope the center will serve as a catalyst that expands passion and vision to vigorously open the future by expanding experiences with new technologies.”

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