Recent Trends of Education Reform in Korea

Abstract

　　The 4^th industrial revolution-driven technology developments such as AI, SNS, and network have been changing our daily life. Accidentally, the COVID-19 pandemic in recent couple of years drove most schools to accept advanced technologies for education such as virtual conference system, on-line lecture system, data-sharing system, etc. These changes drove the education environment in many aspects. Shared technologies such as Zoom video conferencing, Padlet information sharing, and Google Classroom as an online learning management system is routinely used to foster collaboration and communication between students as well as students and teacher. Low price IoT sensors are widely spread in schools and data sharing platforms are being developed under the project of Intelligent Science Lab. The most remarkable change is that internet access becomes available in every space of school in Korea. In addition, government began to provide smart devices to all students in middle schools from 2022. This one device-to one student policy reflects the needs of students and teachers to participate in online learning at home and school. The space of activity has expanded from the stagnant and trapped well of knowledge of textbooks to the sea of information over the world. Such changes in the school environment leads to educational focus from knowledge delivery to problem-solving competency including data and digital literacies.