Beijing Primary and Secondary Schools Launch Artificial Intelligence Education in Full: Building a Specialized AI Education System

The Beijing Municipal Commission of Education recently issued the "Beijing Municipal Work Plan for Promoting Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2025-2027)", which plans to comprehensively carry out Artificial Intelligence education in primary and secondary schools across the city starting from the fall semester of this year. This marks an important step for Beijing in the field of AI education in primary and secondary schools, aiming to cultivate future-oriented talents and build an AI education system with characteristics of the capital.

Curriculum: local courses and the development of top-notch talents

According to the program, Beijing will strictly implement the national curriculum standards to ensure that the Full implementation of artificial intelligence education-related courses. At the same time, in order to reflect local characteristics, Beijing will also Explore the establishment of local curricula for artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schoolsIt has also begun to develop the Beijing Primary and Secondary School Artificial Intelligence Education Local Curriculum Outline (for Trial Implementation). This initiative encourages districts and schools to take into account their own characteristics and develop extended curricula with regional and school-specific features, thereby enriching the content of the curricula and meeting the learning needs of different students.

Notably, the program also emphasizes Promote the establishment of a mechanism for "universities + enterprises + secondary schools" to jointly cultivate top-notch and innovative talents in artificial intelligence.(b) To explore the talent cultivation mode of cooperation between universities and secondary schools by combining with the "nursery" project. By combining with the "Sowers" project, we will explore the talent cultivation mode of cooperation between universities and secondary schools, and create a batch of high-level AI education courses for the cultivation of early top-notch innovative talents. This signals that Beijing will focus on exploring and cultivating students with potential in the field of artificial intelligence at the basic education stage, so as to reserve talents for the country's future scientific and technological development.

Liberal Studies: Combining Universalization and Tiered Teaching

Starting from the fall semester of 2025, the city's primary and secondary schools will comprehensively carry out general education on artificial intelligence, guaranteeing no less than eight hours of lesson time in each school year, and ensuring that education on artificial intelligence is fully popularized among primary and secondary school students. In terms of curriculum, schools can make flexible choices, either setting up the AI curriculum independently or integrating it with the existing curricula such as information technology (IT), general technology, science, integrated practical activities, labor, and so on.

In order to adapt to the cognitive characteristics of students of different age groups, the program explicitly states Staged Learning Objectives::

• Primary level: in order to Experiential Programs Mainly focusing on Enlightening students to think about artificial intelligenceThe program is designed to foster an initial interest in artificial intelligence.
• Middle school level: in order to Cognitive courses Mainly, focusing on Guiding students to use artificial intelligence to empower their learning and lives:: Developing a sense of application.
• High school level: in order to Integrated and practical courses Mainly, focusing on Strengthening students' AI application skills and innovative spiritEncourage innovative practices.

In addition, the program encourages the exploration of A new AI-enabled "dual-teacher classroom" modelThe aim is to promote the balanced development of quality education resources. At the same time. Encourage colleges and universities, research institutes, enterprises and social organizations to open various artificial intelligence venues and bases to primary and secondary school students.The aim is to build off-campus practice platforms to enrich the learning experience of students.

Platform Upgrade: Creating a "Supermarket of Artificial Intelligence Applications"

Beijing will comprehensively upgrade the existing wisdom education platform for primary and secondary schools (Beijing Air Classroom), and expand the development of the public service platform for AI education, with the goal of constructing a one-stop "Artificial Intelligence Application Supermarket for Basic Education in Beijing". The platform will gather high-quality educational resources, realize the return of learning data, and support the iterative updating of the curriculum and the expansion of application scenarios, providing teachers and students with comprehensive artificial intelligence education and teaching support.

To support the operation and application of the platform, Beijing will Accelerating the improvement of the city's education system's "cloud-net-side-end" integration infrastructureand Introducing autonomous and controllable open source AI frameworks and tools:: Provide technological support for teachers' teaching and students' self-directed learning.

At the same time, Beijing will also carry out in-depth "Smart Campus +" initiative(math.) genus Supporting 100 new smart campus demonstration schools to carry out intelligent transformation and innovation of typical application scenariosThe program will be implemented in a number of schools, including the University of California at Berkeley. By transforming these application scenarios into inquiry-based project courses, the demonstration effect of "100 schools leading 1,000 schools" will be formed to promote the construction of smart campuses and the popularization of Artificial Intelligence education.

Teacher training: "Hundred and Thousand Seeds Program" to enhance the level of the teaching force

Teachers are the key to artificial intelligence education सफल. Beijing will select teachers with foundation and interest in information technology, general technology, science, mathematics and other disciplines to form a professional team of AI education teachers. At the same time, districts and schools are encouraged to strengthen their teaching force in various ways to ensure that it is adequately staffed.

In order to enhance the teaching ability of teachers, the city and district education and research departments will incorporate artificial intelligence education into the regular teaching and research system, develop an artificial intelligence-enabled subject teaching innovation guide, and promote the in-depth integration of AI technology with the teaching of various subjects.

A more vigorous initiative is that Beijing will implement the "Hundred Thousand Seed Plan" for primary and secondary school teachers in the city, planning to focus on cultivating 100 professional master teachers and 1,000 backbone teachers, and through their radiation to drive the entire classroom teachers, the overall enhancement of the level of artificial intelligence education in the teaching force. For teachers who have made outstanding contributions in the field of AI education, Beijing will provide support in the selection of teaching achievements, title evaluation, performance guarantee, etc. to motivate teachers to actively engage in AI education and teaching.

Application Expansion: AI+ Enabling Multi-Scenario Parenting

Beijing is actively exploring "AI +" application scenarios, and is committed to building a scenario-based, immersive and integrated practical education system with the characteristics of the capital. The program proposes to combine artificial intelligence with the comprehensive reform of the "Great Civic and Political Science Course", and to use artificial intelligence and robotics to enrich the activities of the "Quarter Hour in Between Classes", and to assist in the integration of human education in the classroom, between classes, and after classes.

In addition, Beijing will expand AI + Smart Sports, AI + Aesthetic Immersion, AI + Labor Education and other application scenarios, and to explore AI-driven Comprehensive Student AssessmentIn the area of student health, Beijing will In the field of student health, Beijing will Establishing a teaching resource base for health education covering all school segments, utilizing artificial intelligence and big data technology to form students' healthy growth records, carrying out regular monitoring and analysis of psychological conditions, and building an AI health teacher to accompany students around the clock.:: To protect the physical and mental health of students on all fronts.

In order to stimulate students' creative energies, Beijing Encourage districts and schools in a position to do so to build artificial intelligence innovation laboratories for students, and organize summer (winter) camps and other activities on the theme of artificial intelligence, relying on the Beijing Youth Innovation Academy and its district branches.Provide students with a platform for practice and communication.

Leading by Demonstration: Creating a Highland of Artificial Intelligence Education

In order to fully promote the implementation of AI education, Beijing will vigorously promote the construction of AI education demonstration zones and demonstration schools. Combined with the construction of smart campuses and other work, open up more application scenarios, summarize and promote mature experience, and give full play to the role of demonstration and leadership.

At the same time, Beijing will also Calling for and selecting cases and application scenarios of artificial intelligence in educationThe selection of good cases and typical scenarios, and Encouragement of various exchange activities, Create a favorable climate for AI education.

The ultimate goal is to guide students to perceive and experience artificial intelligence in their daily lives, to master the necessary knowledge and skills, to stimulate their interest in learning, to improve their artificial intelligence literacy, and to cultivate the spirit of scientific inquiry and innovative talents for the future.

Pioneering and Experimenting: Practical Exploration of Artificial Intelligence Education in Beijing

As early as last year, Beijing took the lead in releasing the "Beijing Work Program for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education" and the "Beijing Guidelines for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education", and has continued to strengthen the innovative application of Artificial Intelligence in the field of education. Chaoyang District, Haidian District and other regions have responded positively and issued relevant action plans one after another. Beijing has also established the "Education + AI" Application Scenario Innovation Alliance to promote regional synergistic development.

At present, Beijing has more than 100 primary and secondary schools in the pilot "artificial intelligence application scene all open", to connect with the head of the enterprise, guiding the school in the "help teaching, help learning, help education, help evaluation, help research, help management" six major areas to carry out exploration attempts, and achieved a series of results.

For example "AI Assistant Teachers" In this regard, the Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School utilizes an intelligent classroom evaluation system to improve teaching and learning. "AI for Schools" For example, schools such as the Clearwater School utilize artificial intelligence algorithms for cross-regional cooperative learning. "AI for Education" In this regard, the 18th Middle School and Guangqumen Middle School have utilized smart sports and "AI Mind and Body" to strengthen the monitoring of students' physical fitness and mental health support, respectively; in "AI-assisted assessment" In this regard, the second secondary school utilizes smart devices to improve the accuracy of classroom assessment. "AI for Research" In this regard, the 80th and 171st secondary schools have built intelligent lesson planning and scientific research systems respectively to empower teachers' development. "AI for Management" For example, Hongzhi Middle School has built an AI-enabled "three hospitals and ten departments" management system. In addition, Ritan Middle School also helped Mafang Middle School in Pinggu District to build smart classrooms through the "Urban and Rural Hand-in-Hand" program to promote educational balance.

In general, Beijing's primary and secondary artificial intelligence education program is not only an educational policy, but also a systematic educational innovation project. It is based on the actual development of education in the capital city, focusing on the future needs of talent training, through the top-level design, platform construction, teacher training, application development and demonstration of a variety of means, to comprehensively promote artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools to take root, in order to cultivate a solid foundation for the cultivation of innovative talents with artificial intelligence literacy.