"Lawmakers promised students the textbooks would offer personalized learning in math, English, and coding, while teachers were told they would lower the workload and prevent dropouts. Yet when they hit the classroom, the books turned out to be full of embarrassing errors, demanding much more time and energy from students and teachers alike. Though part of the government's pitch was that generating textbooks with AI would make the publishing process much faster, textbooks from at least one publisher were significantly delayed."
"One high school student told RoW that "all our classes were delayed because of technical problems with the textbooks. I also didn't know how to use them well." "Monitoring students' learning progress with the books in class was challenging," one high school math teacher added. "The overall quality was poor, and it was clear it had been hastily put together.""
A government-backed South Korean initiative rolled out 76 AI-generated textbooks as part of the "AI Digital Textbook Promotion Plan," created in partnership with multiple publishers and promoted in 2023. The textbooks aimed to provide personalized learning in math, English, and coding and to reduce teacher workload and prevent dropouts. Upon classroom use, the books contained numerous errors, created technical delays, and demanded extra time and effort from students and teachers. Legal pushback converted a planned mandatory rollout into a voluntary one-year trial. The program ended after only four months amid widespread implementation problems.
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