It only takes a few seconds for students to ask AI for answers! Ministry of Education seminar discusses "Teachers are an irreplaceable profession"

The Ministry of Education held the "2026 14th International Academic Symposium on Teacher Training" today.

Students can get answers from AI in just a few seconds. What is the irreplaceable profession of teachers? Wu Xiaoxia, director of the Department of Teaching and Arts of the Ministry of Education, said today (16th) that in addition to being able to use AI, teachers must also maintain professional judgment, ethical awareness and the ability to understand students' learning needs. Teacher training should enable teachers to make good use of AI and judge AI, putting student learning and educational value at the core.

How does AI actually assist teaching? The Ministry of Education held the "2026 14th International Academic Symposium on Teacher Training" today. Among them, the Chinese language field uses generative AI to build a writing scaffolding to help students break through emotional writing bottlenecks; the natural field combines hands-on exploration and AI collaboration, and uses AI to draw animations to explain physical phenomena; the social field emphasizes fact checking and ethical checks to allow teachers to control the direction of teaching.

Innovative teaching materials and teaching aids were displayed at Taipei University of Education, gathering the results of teaching research centers in 16 fields. In the art field, the "Color Magic Bottle" combines STEAM and integrated education to provide adaptive support; in the technology field, smart car-style design and hardware assembly are used to cultivate hands-on ability.

Wu Xiaoxia pointed out that teacher training no longer only needs to answer "how to use technology", but also needs to think about "what is the irreplaceable profession of teachers" and cultivate teachers' ability to judge technology, design teaching and respond to students' needs.

Chen Qinghe, president of Taipei University of Education, said that AI brings new tools and possibilities, and the core of education is always people. In recent years, the school has established an Artificial Intelligence Industry-Academic Development Center to combine expertise in education, humanities, art, psychology and information to promote research and implementation courses to allow AI to respond to educational needs.

International scholars also made different observations. Niels Pinkwart, a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, focused on the governance and risks of AI education and discussed how people can maintain the dominance of thinking; Huang Longxiang, a senior education researcher at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, discussed how teachers can further become learning designers and AI collaborators from users of AI tools.

Victor R. Lee, a professor at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University in the United States, focused on primary and secondary schools, sharing the first-hand experiences of teachers and school leaders facing AI, and discussed what AI knowledge teachers need to truly bring AI into the curriculum.

Wu Xiaoxia said that the key to teacher training in the AI ​​era is not only to improve the ability to operate technology, but also to support teachers in maintaining professional judgment, allowing AI to assist in realizing teaching ideas, and continuing to pay attention to students' learning needs.