From December 5th to 6th, 2022, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO, Beijing Normal University, UNESCO Institute of Information Technology in Education and Artificial Intelligence and Education chair, the 2022 International Forum on AI and Education (AIED2022 in abbreviation) were held online. The International Forum on AI and Education has been co-organized by China and UNESCO since 2019. Till now, the forum has been successfully held four times, becoming a milestone event in the field of artificial intelligence and education.

Figure 1 Opening Ceremony of 2022 International Forum on AI and Education

The theme of AIED2022 is Steering AI to Empower Teachers and Transform Teaching. Chinese Minister of Education HUAI Jinpeng attended the meeting and delivered a speech. SUN Yao, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of China, delivered a keynote speech at the plenary session. TIAN Xuejun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of China and Director of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, presided over the opening ceremony and delivered a speech at the closing ceremony. MA Jun, President of Beijing Normal University, attended the meeting online and delivered a speech. The President of the General Assembly of UNESCO, Mouraen, and the Assistant Director-General of Education, Giannini, delivered online speeches. More than 500 people attended the meeting online, including ministers and vice-ministers of 17 countries, including South Africa, Indonesia, and Spain, representatives of relevant international institutions, experts, scholars, and private sector representatives, and representatives of domestic local education administrative agencies and universities.

Figure 2 The theme of the 2022 International AIED2022 on Artificial Intelligence and Education

The AIED2022 revolved around four sub-topics, i.e. Strategies for leveraging AI to enable the digital transformation of education, Steering AI by design to empower teachers and transform teaching and learning, Defining and developing teachers' competencies needed to work in AI-rich education settings and Global partnership for centring the most marginalized with priorities for Africa.

ZHU Yumeng (2021 Education + AI cross-doctoral student, tutors team: Li Yan, Wu Fei, Chen Wenzhi, Zhai Xuesong), majoring in educational technology, College of Education, Zhejiang University, attended the meeting and shared on December 5th Sub-forum 2.3 How do the younger generation view the role of artificial intelligence in shaping future learning?. ZHU Yumeng first introduced the history and development status of Zhejiang University to the audience, and then, from the perspective of students, shared how Zhejiang University applied AI to empower teaching, how Wise Ocean Platform transformed AI teaching in the K12 and higher education institutions, and how AI+ X Micro-Program cultivated AI interdisciplinary talents.

Figure 3 shared the topic Digital Transformation of Education: Zhejiang University's Innovative Practices of Applying AI to Transform Teaching in Zhejiang University. Part of the shared content is shown in the figure.

When sharing, ZHU Yumeng pointed out that under the complex international and COVID-19 affairs, how to further develop high-quality education and apply technology to trigger and support innovative teaching had become a concern of diverse domains. In addition, AI was an enabling technology, and it could only exert its power when it was combined with domain knowledge. It was necessary to adjust students' training programs to promote the cultivation of AI talents. Facing the above challenges, Zhejiang University's teaching reform based on the K-CPS technical framework, the whole school period AI teaching reform based on the Wise Ocean platform; and the AI+X micro-Program innovated the AI talent training system. These three cases were all about the effective exploration of applying AI to transform teaching and support the digital transformation of education and provided answers that could be used for reference by global educational institutions. 

Figure 4 ZHU Yumeng shared Zhejiang University's Innovative Practices in applying AI to transform teaching