On September 16, throughout the nationwide convention to implement 4 new resolutions of the Politburo, PM Pham Minh Chinh stated that AI have to be launched into faculties.
“We are studying and directing the introduction of AI at the primary education level, starting from grade 1, with the spirit of ‘learning while playing’,” he stated.
Ho Duc Thang, Director of the National Institute of Digital Technology and Digital Transformation underneath the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), talked about the educating of AI at common faculty on the ministry’s common September press convention on September 26.
Thang emphasised that AI is likely one of the most strategic applied sciences. When introducing AI into primary education, the purpose just isn’t to flip college students into expertise engineers however to assist them develop into acquainted with and safely strategy AI.
Due to their younger age, primary college students lack the power to filter data, in order that they can’t be allowed to freely use instruments like ChatGPT. “All AI applications introduced into teaching must undergo thorough review to ensure the highest levels of safety and ethics,” he stated.
Instead of focusing straight on college students, equipping lecturers with AI abilities to design efficient and acceptable classes ought to be prioritized.
International experiences provide beneficial classes for Vietnam. For occasion, Singapore implements quick modules to assist college students perceive protected and accountable AI ideas. Estonia focuses on coaching lecturers. South Korea as soon as changed textbooks with digital purposes too early, however it was ineffective.
He identified that to undertake AI, adequate infrastructure is important, together with primary Internet entry in distant and deprived areas.
“If AI is implemented without adequate infrastructure, it could create inequality right from the primary education level,” Thang stated.
Popularizing AI in faculties is inevitable, however it requires clear goals, cautious steps, and profitable piloting earlier than scaling up to guarantee effectiveness and decrease dangers.
Previously, on the seminar “The Unlimited Power and Unpredictable Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Impacts and Policy Responses,” Truong Gia Binh, Chair of FPT, stated: “If Vietnamese children learn AI from Grade 1, work with AI, and grow up with AI, they can adapt to any future changes driven by AI when they reach adulthood. The most important thing is to teach, learn, and assess with AI, and it must be done as soon as possible.”
Binh emphasised that nobody can predict what future jobs will seem like. Therefore, educating strategies, studying approaches, and evaluation programs have to be radically reworked utilizing AI, and this have to be carried out swiftly.
AI is a key expertise of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, able to reshaping the worldwide order, and is thus extremely prioritized by nations, particularly main powers.
With a strategic imaginative and prescient, the Communist Party of Vietnam issued Resolution No57, figuring out science, expertise, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation, together with AI, because the golden key to assist the nation escape the middle-income entice, cut back the chance of financial lag, and obtain the strategic purpose of changing into a developed, high-income nation by 2045.
Developing strategic applied sciences, together with AI, is a top-priority breakthrough and a key driver for quickly growing fashionable productive forces, innovating nationwide governance, and advancing socio-economic growth.
According to Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung, AI presents an amazing alternative for Vietnam to develop into a developed, high-income nation. Vietnam should seize this chance, mobilize all sources for AI integration, double Vietnam’s mental capability, increase labor productiveness, obtain double-digit financial progress, improve nationwide competitiveness, enhance governance, and higher shield the nation.
Minister Nguyen Manh Hung famous that Vietnam’s AI declaration is Human-Centered, Safe, Self-Reliant, Collaborative, Inclusive, and Sustainable.
Truong Gia Binh, Chair of FPT, stated: “Minister Nguyen Manh Hung often reminds us to think 10X, to aim for breakthroughs, and AI is that 10X breakthrough. AI can increase labor productivity tenfold. In the past, the gap between us and the world’s advanced nations was vast due to previous technological revolutions. However, those revolutions never delivered such a dramatic productivity leap. Thus, this revolution poses immense challenges but also offers tremendous opportunities.”
Binh additional emphasised that probably the most crucial resolution is instructional reform. “I proposed radically transforming the teaching, learning, and assessment methods. If Vietnamese children learn with AI, work with AI from Grade 1, and grow up with AI, they can adapt to any future changes driven by AI when they reach adulthood.”
Thai Khang