Volume 4,Issue 1
Challenges and Opportunities for Primary Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming primary education, a foundational stage for cognitive and social development. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of AI integration in primary education, highlighting key opportunities such as personalized learning through adaptive systems, enhanced student engagement via interactive technologies, teacher workload reduction through automated tasks, innovative tools like AR/VR and LMS, and cultivation of AI literacy and future skills. However, significant challenges persist, including infrastructure and resource inequality, insufficient teacher training and competency, ethical and data privacy concerns, risks of overreliance on AI undermining critical/creative skills, and policy-institutional lag. The study further proposes strategies to address these challenges, such as supportive government policies, comprehensive teacher professional development, ethical standards for data protection, balanced curriculum design, and promotion of AI literacy. By examining these dimensions, the paper aims to inform equitable, effective, and ethically sound AI integration in primary education.
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