Digital Textbooks AI and Education: Symposium, Working Group Launch, and Survey Request Today’s DiTT Symposium: “Considering Education in the Age of AI.”I served as moderator again, following yesterday’s session. Participants included
RIKEN, AIST, NICT, as well as KDDI Research, Classi, and Recruit—a mix of AI researchers and users of AI in education.
This symposium also served as the kickoff for the AI × Education Working Group, which will begin its activities next week.
Three researchers consistently emphasized the need for “data” and expressed a “desire for collaboration with the educational field.” The discussion concluded with a consensus that “a platform for open innovation must be established.”
I hope the DiTT Working Group will fulfill that role.
We’ll revisit the key points within the working group, but for now, the topics raised today were roughly as follows…・Presenting a vision for learning environments in the
AI era, along with its demonstration and verification
; designing platforms for industry-academia collaboration; promoting the utilization of
data; opening up educational data
; and establishing an environment for
data utilization (personal information guidelines, rights management, standardization)
. We are conducting a survey in preparation for the working group meetings. If you’d be so kind, please help us out.
http://ditt.jp/news/?id=2343
It has been seven years since DiTT was founded. Policies have been announced regarding the development of a legal framework for digital textbooks and other materials, the mandatory implementation of programming education, and the drafting of a promotion law that encompasses these initiatives.
DiTT will continue to dedicate itself to this field and move forward so that we can present a vision of learning that goes one step further.
“Action over discussion!”—this has become something of a motto for DiTT, and we will continue to move forward without losing sight of that spirit.
Click here for a detailed report on the symposium.
http://ditt.jp/action/symposium.html?id=27&page=1
Professor, Keio University; Ph.D. (Policy and Media)
Director, B Lab
Chairperson, Learning of Tomorrow (General Incorporated Association)
Chairperson, CANVAS
After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he served as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab before founding the NPO CANVAS and the Learning of Tomorrow Association, a General Incorporated Association, and assuming the role of representative. He serves as an outside director for Matsuya Co., Ltd., Fuji Media Holdings, Inc., and Digital Garage, Inc.
He has served on various government committees, including the Information and Communications Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as well as the NHK Central Broadcasting Program Council. He also serves as a director of the Digital Signage Consortium, among other roles. He holds a Ph.D. in Policy and Media.
His publications include *Turning On Children’s Creativity!*, *What Are Smart Kids Doing on Their Smartphones?*, *The Forefront of Online Education in Japan: Considering Learning in the Post-COVID Era*,“What Is Programming Education? 45 Questions Parents Want to Know,” and “Declaration on Digital Education.” He has also provided supervision for numerous works, including “Ah, I See! Programming Education for Parents and Children Through Manga.”
