Whose homework is it anyway? In a guiding document（文件）published on Oct 20, the education bureau of Zhengzhou（郑州市教育局）, capital of Henan province, banned（禁止）schools from asking their students’ parents to check and correct their children’s 【小题1】.

The Chinese language is said to be difficult to learn. Is this true? In my opinion, it depends. At the age of 13, I started 【小题1】 Chinese classes at school in the UK. It was a subject that could make the classroom deadly silent 【小题2】 it was difficult to learn. But when I came to China last year, I found that learning Chinese could be

After I moved to Beijing, I lived with local people. 【小题4】 a language lover, I would try to talk with local people in Chinese, sharing details (细节) of 【小题5】 everyday life. Sometimes we would also go to KTV together.

When I 【小题6】 into the KTV room for the first time, the atmosphere (气氛) there was 【小题7】 different from that of a classroom. But this was where the learning would take place. With every note I sang, I began to 【小题8】 the characters. Spending time with others made the 【小题9】 of learning less like work and more like fun. As I sang with native Chinese 【小题10】, it finally began to click (豁然开朗) . This was an environment where I could lose myself in the Chinese language and culture while still expressing myself.

“Turn left! Turn right!” In the information technology (IT) class. Zhang Ruixuan was controlling a robot to move around.

“This is part of 【小题1】 artificial intelligence (AI) courses,” said the 10th grader from Beijing 101 Middle School. The school provides AI classes 【小题2】 both junior and senior high school students. Apart from compulsory(必修的) courses that teach basic knowledge, there are also optional(选修的) courses if students want to learn 【小题3】.

“This semester in our compulsory class, we have learned coding(编程) through a programming language called Python,” said Zhang. Using Python to code is a basic skill for training AI models. In recent years, Python has been 【小题4】 in high school graduation exams(高中会考) in places like Beijing, Jiangsu and Anhui.

In fact, having AI education in schools 【小题5】 a growing trend(趋势) in many places, with Zhejiang province being a typical example. In 2020, Zhejiang added AI education into textbooks from Grade 5 in primary school all the way to senior high. In the city of Wenzhou, the government is planning 【小题6】 1,000 AI experimental schools by 2025.

“With the 【小题7】 of technology, our textbooks have been changing all the time,” said Shang Yin, an IT teacher from Beijing 101 Middle School. “From typing to using Word and Excel, and then today’s coding and AI, the courses are keeping up with the times and 【小题8】 students necessary skills.” In the future, there 【小题9】 more jobs where AI knowledge is required. Even in daily life, people may need to understand things 【小题10】 ChatGPT and the Internet of Things. AI education will become increasingly important, Shang added.