KISDI Holds AI Ethics Teaching Workshop and Challenge Festa for Teachers (detail)

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KISDI Holds AI Ethics Teaching Workshop and Challenge Festa for Teachers

Approximately 107 Elementary, Middle, and High School Teachers Nationwide Participate in Metaverse-Based Learning and Team-Based Lesson Planning

▲ Hands-on training using the Metaverse Ethics Hall, developed from AI ethics education materials for elementary, middle, and high schools by MSIT and KISDI
▲ Team-based AI ethics lesson planning and sharing of student-centered teaching cases, including deepfake video production and mock trials involving autonomous vehicles
▲ Introduction to AI-based teaching material development using domestic and international AI ethics documents, with source-grounded responses to reduce the risk of hallucinations

Date and Time: July 28 and August 11, 2026 (Tuesdays), 10:00–16:00
Venue: G Valley Corporate Citizenship Center, 6th Floor, Hyundai City Outlets Gasan, Seoul
Organized by: Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)
Hosted by: Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)

The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI, President Sangkyu Rhee) held the "AI Ethics Teaching Workshop and Challenge Festa" on July 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the G Valley Corporate Citizenship Center in Seoul. The workshop was organized for elementary, middle, and high school teachers from across Korea.

Hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and organized by KISDI, the training program was scheduled to take place twice, on July 28 and August 11. Participating teachers registered in advance through official notices distributed by local education offices and other channels.

The workshop was organized to encourage the use of AI ethics education materials developed by MSIT and KISDI in 2022 (ai.kisdi.re.kr) and to promote awareness of AI ethics education in schools.

To support classroom use of the materials, KISDI collaborated with HBIT Co., Ltd., a company specializing in immersive educational content using VR, AR, and XR technologies. Selected content from the materials was incorporated into a metaverse environment to facilitate teachers' access to the educational resources.

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

Session 1: Hands-on AI Ethics Learning in the Metaverse

In the first session, Byungdeok Kang, CEO of HBIT Co., Ltd., demonstrated the "Metaverse Ethics Hall," developed by incorporating AI ethics education materials from MSIT and KISDI into Classlink, a virtual school platform.

Participating teachers entered the Metaverse Ethics Hall using avatars and completed interactive learning activities from the perspective of students.

The session examined how the metaverse environment could support self-directed, participatory learning beyond conventional video-based instruction. The potential for metaverse-based AI ethics lessons to reduce teachers' instructional workload was also introduced.

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, led a lesson design contest using Padlet, a collaborative online platform.

The activity focused on developing AI ethics teaching materials that participants could use in their own classrooms.

Teachers formed teams of three to five according to school level and began by sharing their views on AI ethics. They discussed potential concerns related to students' use of AI, including hallucinations, declining critical thinking and writing skills, and environmental issues associated with energy consumption.

Each team then developed an AI ethics lesson plan using KISDI's AI ethics education materials and the Metaverse Ethics Hall as references.

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

In the third session, Youngjun Kim, a teacher at Seongnam High School in Seoul, introduced teaching approaches designed to help students independently identify and examine ethical issues.

He shared his experience teaching physical computing and physical AI since 2018. Examples included lessons in which students created deepfake videos to understand how fake news spreads and discussed the related issues. He also presented a mock trial activity examining responsibility for accidents involving autonomous vehicles.

Kim provided a detailed account of a web application he had developed and distributed to support students' self-directed learning based on AI ethics education materials.

The application assesses students' initial understanding and provides key concepts, videos, and multiple-choice and open-ended questions on topics such as data management, bias, and autonomous driving.

He also introduced activities in which students selected topics of interest, wrote reports, and converted their findings into six-panel webtoons. Other examples included incorporating source citation into assessment criteria to discourage uncritical use of AI and displaying selected student works as posters at school.

Session 4: Exploring AI Ethics Documents Using Gemini Notebook

In the fourth session, Hyun Kyong LEE, Fellow and Head of the AI Social Policy Group at KISDI, demonstrated how elementary, middle, and high school teachers could develop their own teaching materials using Gemini Notebook, a source-grounded information exploration tool.

She introduced a repository containing 35 documents, including original AI ethics publications from around the world and ethical principles issued by domestic and international public institutions and companies.

Teachers were shown how to copy and add materials to the repository to create and expand their own learning resources.

The session explained that the tool generates responses based on user-uploaded documents rather than unrestricted information from the internet and provides citations to the source materials.

This approach was presented as a way to reduce hallucinations and allow teachers to verify the original sources used in generated responses when preparing lessons.

The session also covered ways to produce educational content in various formats, including audio, mind maps, videos, quizzes, and infographics. These functions were introduced as options for creating introductory lesson materials and resources tailored to students' learning levels.

The second AI Ethics Teaching Workshop and Challenge Festa was scheduled for August 11. KISDI also outlined its plans to continue supporting awareness of AI ethics education and the use of related teaching materials in schools.

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KISDI Holds AI Ethics Teaching Workshop and Challenge Festa for Teachers