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China Faces Debate on Guiding Students' Use of AI Technology in Education

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China Debates AI's Role in Education for Student Learning

Business Honor
28 Febuary, 2025

AI tools like DeepSeek sparks discussions on balancing student’s AI use and critical thinking development.

Chinese school children's increasing usage of AI technologies has encouraged discussion on how to mentor student’s use of the technology without compromising their ability to think critically. About 40% of the 700 respondents to a survey by the bimonthly magazine Banyuetan, which is connected to the state news agency Xinhua, at one northern Chinese secondary school, reported using mainland Chatbots like DeepSeek, Doubao, and Kimi for their winter break assignments this year.

In all, 31% of respondents claimed to have utilized AI technologies to comprehend the questions and helped in their learning, while 28% claimed to have done so in order to collect and compile information. According to the article published in the magazine on February 19, most of the students admitted that they used Chabot’s in Chinese language, Mathematics and English.

Local governments and business owners have been wishing to include DeepSeek into their operations in recent weeks. In order to teach their students how to use the technology, major colleges also started courses. But when it comes to elementary and secondary education, parents and teachers are still working out how to teach kids how to use the new technology in a right way that doesn't interfere with their cognitive development. For instance, a Beijing elementary school requested that pupils create Lunar New Year greetings on spring couplets using artificial intelligence.

In order to determine how much students have relied on AI and how much of that reliance is appropriate, some institutions are considering how to evaluate students' homework. The line between students using AI to write and educators utilizing AI as a teaching tool is one issue that educators are considering. According to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications professor Ma Zhanyu, who was cited by Banyuetan, the line depended on whether or not students exercised control over the making of the policy process and whether or not they applied critical thinking when using the tool.