Yuanzhuo 2024 archive: AI assistants in special education — original event notice

Historical notice | Originally published on 17 October 2024 for a session on 19 October. The event has ended; this page does not accept registrations. See the subsequent report and course below.

On 17 October 2024, Yuanzhuo Academy announced a session scheduled for Saturday, 19 October, with Ye Xiaowei, a Chinese-language teacher at Guangzhou Qicong School, sharing her exploration and experience of using artificial intelligence in special education.

The notice outlined a focus on special-education classrooms and how AI could support the field. It aimed to offer experience and practical tools to special-education teachers while showing other educators the potential of AI and related technologies to improve teaching and support diverse learning needs.

Article contents

About the speaker

Portrait of Ye Xiaowei in the original 2024 notice, against a light background, without additional text.
Ye Xiaowei, the speaker in the original notice. Image: original SLI notice.

The following roles, honours and experience are reproduced in the context of the original 2024 notice.

Ye Xiaowei

  • Chinese-language teacher at Guangzhou Qicong School.
  • Member of Guangzhou’s resource centre supporting deaf and hard-of-hearing students in mainstream classrooms.
  • Participant in Guangzhou’s “十百千万” talent-development programme for teaching empowered by information technology.

Honours and experience listed in the original notice

  • Second prize in the micro-lesson category of Guangdong’s “双融双创” practical activity to improve teachers’ information literacy.
  • A lesson selected as a demonstration lesson at the fifth showcase and exchange of special-education and resource teachers’ IT application skills, held alongside a symposium on the digital transformation of special education.
  • A lesson selected for demonstration at the 2023 annual academic conference on education for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners and symposium on improving inclusive-education quality.
  • Participation in a Guangdong education-science project under the 13th Five-Year Plan; the project was rated outstanding.
  • Several lessons recognised as outstanding resources in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou, alongside multiple published papers.

The original notice describes Ye as a graduate of the Chinese Language and Literature Education programme at South China Normal University. It highlights her use of information technology to build effective, open Chinese-language classrooms and of data analysis to attend to learner differences and personalised learning needs.

Originally scheduled time

Saturday, 19 October 2024.

10:00–11:30.

The original date and clock time are retained. The notice did not specify a time zone. This archive is not a current event schedule.

Original participation arrangements and archive

The original notice offered online participation through Tencent Meeting. The session has ended. Its old meeting number is not presented as a current entry point; the original meeting QR code is retained only in the historical archive below.

These QR codes come from the original 2024 notice and are retained for documentation. Their current validity has not been verified. Use the links below for the report and course.

View the original meeting QR code — historical archive
Tencent Meeting QR code from the 2024 notice, retained as historical material; adjacent text explains the original participation arrangement.
Original Tencent Meeting QR code, historical archive. Image: original SLI notice.

About the Yuanzhuo Programme

The notice recalls that, from January 2022, the Yuanzhuo Programme continued its Yuanzhuo Academy community activities, encouraging young people to use original and innovative AI algorithms to solve real problems. It sought collaboration among universities, primary and secondary schools and technology companies, solicited and nurtured youth AI projects, and provided algorithms, computing resources, datasets, knowledge and experience. Its stated aims were to advance youth AI education, showcase outstanding work internationally and contribute to China’s development as a major global AI innovation centre.

Yuanzhuo Programme website

https://yuanzhuo.bnu.edu.cn/

The original notice also included a Yuanzhuo community-group QR code as a way to participate at the time.

This page retains that community QR code as historical material, rather than a current invitation to join. Consult the Yuanzhuo website’s latest announcements for subsequent community activities.

View the original community QR code — historical archive
Yuanzhuo community-group QR code from the 2024 notice, retained as historical material; consult the programme website for current community information.
Original Yuanzhuo community QR code, historical archive. Image: original SLI notice.

Follow-up report and course

Read the report published on 23 October 2024

Yuanzhuo course 2024-107: digital literacy and innovative teaching

The course concerns AI assistants in special education. Consult the Yuanzhuo platform for current learning materials, free-access status and sign-in requirements.

Sources and editorial note

Prepared from the complete official notice, retaining the speaker introduction, five honours and experience entries, schedule, programme background and three original images. Participation invitations are presented as historical information. The follow-up report is a separate article and does not replace this notice.

Original link: https://aiedchair.bnu.edu.cn/news-sli-yuanzhuo-special-education-notice-2024-en/

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