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Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?

Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?

Update: 2025-04-23
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Last year the Korean government announced its substantial commitment to AI and schools, launching an ‘AI Digital Textbook’ policy that promises to establish AI-driven customised learning across the education system. 

We are joined by Dr. Jina Ro (Sungkyunkwan University) to make sense of Korea’s recent ed-tech turn, and the wider motivations for investing so heavily in the promise of AI transforming traditional schooling. 

Accompanying reference >>>  Jina Ro (2025): Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea, Learning, Media and Technology,doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2462940

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Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?

Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?

Neil Selwyn