Speaking online at an event hosted by a rural education charity foundation, Jack Ma said AI posed challenges for rural education but also offered an opportunity to return to the core purpose of teaching.
“In the AI era, the question is no longer whether to use AI, but how to teach our children to use it well,” Ma said. He added that education should no longer push students to compete with machines in calculation and memorisation, but instead nurture curiosity, imagination, creativity, judgment and collaboration. “The real divide in the AI age is not a technological gap, but a gap in curiosity, imagination and creativity,” he said.
Ma said education should encourage students to think more creatively and independently, rather than produce standardised answers. “It should not be about 1,000 students giving the same correct answer, but about learning to ask 10,000 good questions,” he said. [Technode Reporting]
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