KISDI Holds “AI Ethics Teaching Practice Training Challenge Festa” for Teachers (detail)

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KISDI Holds “AI Ethics Teaching Practice Training Challenge Festa” for Teachers

Teachers experience AI ethics education in the metaverse and design lesson plans in teams, with approximately 107 elementary, middle, and high school teachers participating nationwide

▲ AI ethics teaching materials for elementary, middle, and high schools, developed by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and KISDI, were implemented in the metaverse “Ethics Hall,” allowing teachers to experience the program from a student’s perspective.

▲ Teachers worked in teams to design AI ethics lesson plans for classroom use and shared examples of student-centered activities, including deepfake production and mock trials on autonomous vehicle accidents.

▲ Teachers were introduced to methods for creating their own class materials using generative AI based on domestic and international AI ethics documents. Source-grounded responses were used to minimize concerns over hallucinations.

Date: July 28 (Tue.) and August 11 (Tue.), 2026, 10:00–16:00
Venue: G-Valley Corporate Citizen Hall, Seoul (6F, Hyundai City Outlet Gasan Branch)
Organized by: Korea Information Society Development Institute
Hosted by: Ministry of Science and ICT

The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI, President Sangkyu Rhee) announced that it held the “AI Ethics Teaching Practice Training Challenge Festa” for elementary, middle, and high school teachers nationwide on July 28, 2026, from 10:00 to 16:00 at the G-Valley Corporate Citizen Hall in Seoul.

Hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and organized by KISDI, the training program was conducted in two sessions, with the second session scheduled for August 11. Teachers who had registered in advance through official notices from metropolitan and provincial offices of education and other channels participated in the program.

The training program was organized to encourage the use of AI ethics teaching materials for elementary, middle, and high schools developed by MSIT and KISDI in 2022 (ai.kisdi.re.kr) and to broaden awareness of AI ethics education.

To facilitate the use of the materials in schools, KISDI collaborated with HBIT Co., Ltd., a company specializing in immersive VR, AR, and XR educational content. Part of the teaching materials was implemented in a metaverse environment to provide teachers with easier access to the content.

The program consisted of four sessions: ▲ hands-on AI ethics lessons using the metaverse, ▲ a team-based AI ethics lesson design contest, ▲ presentations on student-centered AI ethics inquiry classes using web applications, and ▲ exploration of AI ethics documents using Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM).

## Session 1: Hands-on AI Ethics Lessons Using the Metaverse

In the first session, Byungdeok Kang, CEO of HBIT Co., Ltd., demonstrated the “Metaverse Ethics Hall,” which implements the elementary, middle, and high school AI ethics teaching materials developed and distributed by MSIT and KISDI on the “ClassLink” virtual school platform.

Participating teachers entered the Ethics Hall using avatars and completed the experiential learning process from a student’s perspective.

The Metaverse Ethics Hall is designed to allow students to move beyond conventional video-based learning and participate in self-directed, experiential education in a virtual school environment. The session also examined how metaverse-based interdisciplinary AI ethics classes could help reduce the burden on teachers when conducting classroom activities.

## Session 2: Team-Based AI Ethics Lesson Design Contest

In the second session, Suhyun Kim, a teacher at Donghwa Elementary School and President of the XR Teachers Association, conducted a lesson design contest using the collaborative platform Padlet. The session focused on developing AI ethics teaching materials that teachers could use in their own classrooms.

Participants formed teams of three to five teachers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Beginning with a discussion on their views of AI ethics, each team developed its own lesson plan.

Teachers shared concerns related to students’ use of AI, including hallucinations, declines in thinking and writing skills, and environmental issues such as energy consumption. Each team then designed a lesson plan with reference to KISDI’s AI ethics teaching materials and the Metaverse Ethics Hall.

## Session 3: Student-Centered AI Ethics Inquiry Classes Using Web Applications

In the third session, Youngjun Kim, a teacher at Seongnam High School in Seoul, introduced a teaching approach designed to help students identify ethical issues on their own.

Drawing on his experience teaching physical computing and physical AI since 2018, Kim shared several classroom examples. These included producing deepfake videos with students to examine how fake news spreads and then discussing the related issues, as well as conducting a mock trial on responsibility for autonomous vehicle accidents.

He also presented in detail a web application that he developed and distributed for students’ self-directed learning based on the AI ethics teaching materials.

After assessing students’ basic level of understanding, the web application provides key concepts, video materials, and multiple-choice and written-response questions on topics such as data management, bias, and autonomous driving.

Kim also shared activities in which students selected topics of interest, prepared reports, and converted them into six-panel webtoons. Other examples included incorporating proper citation of sources into assessment criteria to discourage uncritical use of AI and displaying selected student work as posters at school.

## Session 4: Exploring AI Ethics Documents Using Gemini Notebook

In the fourth session, Hyun Kyong LEE, Head of the AI Society Policy Group at KISDI, introduced methods that elementary, middle, and high school teachers can use to create their own teaching materials with Gemini Notebook, a source-grounded information exploration tool.

LEE introduced a repository containing 35 documents, including original AI ethics documents published around the world and ethical principles issued by public institutions and companies in Korea and other countries. She explained that teachers can copy and add materials to expand the repository into their own learning workspace.

One key feature of the tool is that its responses are based only on documents uploaded by the user rather than information from across the internet, while also providing the relevant sources.

This approach can reduce hallucinations and allow users to immediately verify the original materials supporting a response. Teachers can therefore design lessons using information that can be checked against its sources.

The tool can also generate learning content in various formats, including audio, mind maps, videos, quizzes, and infographics. These functions can be used to prepare materials that stimulate student interest or are tailored to different levels of learning.

The next “AI Ethics Teaching Practice Training Challenge Festa” is scheduled to be held on August 11, 2026. KISDI plans to continue its efforts to broaden awareness of AI ethics education and promote its use in schools.

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