Recently, the story of Wang Bo, a 60-year-old retired teacher in Handan, Hebei Province, who used AI to prepare lessons and returned to the classroom has attracted attention. The topic has been on the hot search list on Weibo and Douyin. Many media have reported and paid attention to it. His Doubao intelligent robot has about 2,000 "cloud students". This year, Wang Bo also looked for artificial intelligence books to study, "I will continue to learn as I go, hoping to experience more technological conveniences and help more students."
Teacher Wang Bo has been teaching for 36 years and has devoted his life to vocational education, witnessing the changes in education methods and the development of the times. After retirement, he returned to the classroom to use his spare energy and write his own footnotes for being productive and happy in old age. What's even more remarkable is that Wang Bo, who has returned to class, still teaches himself artificial intelligence knowledge despite being 60 years old, uses Beanbao AI to assist in preparing lessons, and creates an "AI tutor" to interact with students at any time to answer questions. This is nothing more than a vivid practice for the "silver-haired generation" to broaden their thinking, utilize new technologies, and expand new frontiers in education.
In recent years, a large number of teachers, experts and scholars, such as Tang Shouping, a retired teacher from Jiangsu Province, and Wu Laolao, a retired professor from Tongji University, have used Internet technology to open "cloud classrooms" with their enthusiasm and wisdom. They usually use short video live broadcast platforms as "lecture halls", small screens as "blackboards", and professional knowledge as "chalk" to provide a feast of knowledge to students from all over the world. The group of "Silver Zhibo" has also become the annual "Moving China" figure. Obviously, compared with the past, "Silver Zhibo", which is active on the Internet platform, has greatly broken down the physical barriers of time and space such as the threshold of "classroom" and "student origin", and increased the speed of information flow and the breadth and depth of inclusive knowledge.
If the use of short video live broadcast technology to open "cloud classrooms" is the "1.0 version" of inclusive Internet knowledge, then the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies to assist in lesson preparation, teaching and interactive communication can be said to be the "2.0 version" of inclusive Internet knowledge. Version". At present, the use of domestic AI tools represented by Doubao is rapidly expanding, and functions such as assisting learning and office work are popular. On the basis of lowering the threshold and breaking the barriers of time and space, the silver-haired group leverages artificial intelligence and other technologies to expand the group's ideological wisdom into the field of artificial intelligence, which will activate many aspects of upgrades.
For example, for veteran teachers like Wang Bo, artificial intelligence technology improves the efficiency of lesson preparation, allowing teachers to truly use their time to keep up with changes and break through themselves; for students who benefit the most, new technologies not only eliminate It also eliminates the "threshold" for registration and study, and the role of AI tutor also creates highly interactive, full-time, and all-weather learning conditions for students. The combination of "silver-haired groups + artificial intelligence technology" is more conducive to cultivating the value orientation of the platform's high-quality content and inclusive knowledge on the basis of increasing the quantity of content supply.
Multiple positive effects are not just imagined, but have begun to take root in practice. Before Wang Bo used artificial intelligence technology, he had about 200 students offline. As the classroom expands from offline to online, his Doubao agent currently has about 2,000 "cloud students." Artificial intelligence technology assists in lesson preparation and teaching, which not only reduces Wang Bo's burden of searching materials for lesson preparation, but also allows him to have more energy to ponder courseware and improve teaching content. Teacher Wang Bo’s Beanbao intelligent agent assists interactive learning. While answering questions and resolving doubts, it also provides consultation and emotional value to students. It is understood that with the application of artificial intelligence technology in lesson preparation and teaching, some students' physics scores have improved from relatively average to more than 90 points. Various changes reflect the positive incentives and positive effects that "Silver Zhibo" has brought to lesson preparation and teaching and universal knowledge after its expansion into the field of artificial intelligence.
Universal knowledge has never been limited to age, method, platform and technology. The latest data shows that the number of Internet users in my country is nearly 1.1 billion (1.09967 billion people), and the Internet penetration rate reaches 78.0%. More and more people are actively exploring the application of AI in the field of education. With "fast" and "short" becoming a certain real trend, we are happy to see the "silver-haired group" exert their remaining energy, enjoy themselves and make a difference in their old age, and we are even more happy to see the "silver-haired group" use new technologies such as artificial intelligence , convey new wisdom and condense a new trend of lifelong learning for all people.