South Korean schools introduce smart AI textbooks
This year, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics started developing multi-functional smart AI textbooks. They will support subtitling and translation into different languages.
South Korea's Ministry of Education has unveiled a “Plan to Promote Digital Textbooks with AI” that will take effect from the beginning of 2025. Under the plan, math, Korean and English, and computer science will be taught using the new textbooks. From 2028, social studies, history, science and technology will be included.
South Korea is actively developing the Classrooms of the Future project, in which 18 schools in the country are already participating. The project started more than a year ago and includes the use of digital whiteboards connected to CLOi humanoid robots. They have been equipped with artificial intelligence. The robots assist teachers, answer students' questions and even play music for warm-ups.