The 4th Industrial Revolution has arrived, the appearance of society is changing significantly, and the talent image required by the new era is also changing. Currently, one of the most important skills of new talent is software and artificial intelligence, and education is being conducted in Korea and other countries around the world. In this regard, software education is being conducted in Korea, starting with the 2015 revised curriculum, and artificial intelligence education will be conducted in the 2022 revised curriculum. In the meantime, there have been a number of studies related to software education and artificial intelligence education in the educational field, and in existing education, there has been a limitation that students learn passively and unilaterally.
Therefore, in this paper, we tried to study related contents according to the needs of the new society and the times, and develop and apply a hackathon-based artificial intelligence convergence education program. In addition, the developed program was applied to verify its effectiveness and generalize the research contents.
In this study, program development proceeded in a total of five stages: the analysis stage, the design stage, the development stage, the execution stage, and the evaluation stage.
In the analysis stage, the learner's environment, teaching and learning environment, curriculum, and related contents were analyzed as basic data for developing the program.
In the design stage, the goal and evaluation of the program were set and the overall structure of the program was designed.
In the development stage, the program's teaching and learning process proposal and teaching materials were developed, the validity of this program was verified for the expert group, and then revised and supplemented.
In the implementation stage, this program was applied to 9 elementary school students. The program utilized creative experience activity time and applied 12 sessions for 2 days.
In the evaluation stage, students' artificial intelligence literacy was measured before and after the program was applied, and students' satisfaction with the class was investigated.
As a result of applying the hackathon-based artificial intelligence convergence education program, the improvement of elementary school students' artificial intelligence literacy was significant in all areas of artificial intelligence, and the satisfaction survey found that interest, beneficial, difficulty, and satisfaction were appropriate for elementary school students.
There are difficulties in generalization due to the small number of students, the use of dioceses, and the limited use of creative experience activities. A follow-up study with a larger number of students is needed.
It is expected that further research and expansion of cases such as the hackathon-based artificial intelligence convergence education program developed in this study will help foster talented people in line with the era of the 4th industrial revolution.