AI Education Program Development Through Elementary School Integrated Subjects curriculum

In this study, we sought to explore the possibility of AI education in elementary schools by developing an AI education program through elementary integrated subjects curriculum. To this end, we reviewed the characteristics of the AI education initiative and the 2022 revised elementary integrated subjects curriculum, and developed and exemplified an AI education program through the elementary integrated subjects curriculum based on design-based research useful for educational program development. As a result of the study, a total of 15 elementary integrated subjects curriculum achievement standards were selected, 5 each for upright living, wise living, and enjoyable life, and 13 AI literacy content elements that could be cultivated through these were extracted. Subsequently, a list of 15 topics in total were constructed in units of achievement standards in connection with the topics of the elementary integrated subjects curriculum in the 2022 revision period, and detailed activities were selected based on a frame consisting of major topics and subtopics, learning goals, digital teaching tools, and lessons, and developed them into a program. I got angry. Through this, first, AI education as knowledge is possible through elementary integrated subjects curriculum, and second, in order to provide AI education that can actually operate in the elementary school curriculum, the concept, direction, purpose, content, and linkage plan of AI education with the curriculum are possible. It was concluded that there was a need to present an initiative that could clearly present and guide such issues.