Development and Effectiveness of Invention Gifted Education Program Using AI

Objectives The purpose of this study is to develop an AI education program for gifted students who are inventive and to verify the effectiveness of the program. Through this program we can understand the concept of AI, recognize the value of AI technology and AI-related intellectual property rights, and then product some inventions by applying ideas gained from using AI technology.&#x0D; Methods After a draft on the Invention Education Program for the gifted by using AI was designed by investigating the previous studies related to Invention Education for the gifted and AI Education from May of 2021 to December of 2021, non-face-to-face real-time expert councils were held six times through Zoom, and one face-to-face council was held to develop an invention education program for the gifted by using AI. To analyze the effectiveness of this program, the test paper for investigating the effectiveness of an AI education, which consists of sub-scale measures such as value recognition for AI, efficacy against AI, and AI literacy was used on the experimental object of the 55 gifted students at elementary school in G Metropolitan City. Pre- and post-testing were performed on both the experimental group and the comparative group. The effectiveness in the amount of changes was verified to be meaningful through the Mann-Whitney test.&#x0D; Results As the result of this study, the twelve periodic lesson plans for the Invention Education Program for the gifted by using AI were developed to enable learners to flip-learn, based on the previous researches related to AI and the content standard of the Invention Education for the gifted. After experimenting to verify the effectiveness of AI education by applying this developed program to the gifted students who are inventive for 6 weeks, the overall average of the changes between the experimental group and the comparative group showed a significant difference in the pre-test and the post-test. However, among the sub-scale measures, there was no significant difference in the amount of changes between the two groups in the value perception of A, while in the sub-scale measures such as efficacy against AI and AI literacy there was a significant difference in the amount of changes between the two groups.&#x0D; Conclusions In this study it was found that the Invention Education Program for the gifted by using AI had positive effects on the gifted students who are inventive in terms of AI educational effectiveness, on the condition that the program consists of sub-scale measures such as value perception of AI, efficacy against AI, and AI literacy. The program developed in this study can be applicable to the education of the gifted students who are inventive. In addition, educational environments should be created through network construction, device, and teaching aids for teachers to give artificial intelligence classes in the field education. In further studies, the contents of this program need to be more adjusted in conjunction with the invention curriculum for application to general students, and more researches should be conducted to investigate the differences in educational effectiveness comparing other characteristics of the gifted students such as regions and genders.