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Our twenty-first century is characterized by its rapid technological advancement. Our lifestyle and ways of interacting with people have changed significantly compared to around a decade ago in the early 2010s as AI technologies turn ubiquitous across industries and in our everyday lives. Artificial intelligence has spread across industries to enhance our living, learning, and working experience with exciting technological innovations such as computer vision, natural language processing, robotics and motion, machine and deep learning, and neural networks (Chen et al., 2022; Dong et al., 2021; Zawacki-Richter et al., 2019). Applications of AI have become in many parts of our everyday life (e.g., smart home appliances, smartphones, chatbots, search engines). In the field of education, schools began to use AI-enabled technologies to leverage students’ personalized learning and reduce teachers’ administrative work, thus offering more learning support and interactive learner experience (Roll & Wylie, 2016). Therefore, a field has gradually taken shape over the last few decades – AI in education (AIED).

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    Davy Tsz Kit Ng, Maggie Jiahong Su, Iris Heung Yue Yim, Maggie Shen Qiao & Samuel Kai Wah Chu

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Ng, D.T.K., Leung, J.K.L., Su, M.J., Yim, I.H.Y., Qiao, M.S., Chu, S.K.W. (2022). AI Education and AI Literacy. In: AI Literacy in K-16 Classrooms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18880-0_2

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