Against the backdrop of the accelerated development of the global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping the educational ecosystem and also promoting STEM education to become a strategic priority for countries around the world in cultivating innovative talents. How should China build the "roadmap" for AI + STEM education?
From November 29 to 30, the 23rd Shanghai International Curriculum Symposium was held at East China Normal University with the theme of "AI+STEM Education: China and the World".
The symposium brought together representatives from UNESCO, national education authorities, provincial and municipal education administrative departments, experts and scholars from well-known domestic and overseas institutions of higher learning, as well as more than 300 delegates from key national research bases for textbook development. All participants jointly discussed the cutting-edge trends and development directions of STEM education in the intelligent era.
A number of frontier achievements in AI education research were released at this symposium. These achievements cover key fields such as classroom teaching, learning assessment and regional practice, demonstrating the application potential of AI in classroom discourse analysis, learning task generation, performance-based evaluation and core literacy assessment.
Meanwhile, practical cases from various regions and schools have further proved the practical effectiveness of AI in project-based learning, engineering education and interdisciplinary teaching. These cases provide scalable technical paths and evidential support for the modernization of Chinese-style education, offering empirical foundations and technical backing for advancing the modernization of Chinese-style education, and showcasing the broad application prospects of AI in curriculum design, teaching implementation and evaluation improvement.
By connecting Chinese experience with global issues, the symposium presented China's conceptual innovations, institutional explorations and practical achievements in the field of AI + STEM education. Ranging from policy guidance to regional actions, from theoretical reconstruction to classroom practice, and from technological innovation to international cooperation, the symposium has provided a new dialogue platform for global educational transformation and contributed Chinese strength to building a more open, cooperative and integrated future educational ecosystem.
