Historical event notice: this series was scheduled for 18 May, 25 May and 1 June 2024. The sessions, speakers and participation details below are archival information, not a current registration call.
The original notice announced a May 2024 series on “AI education suitable for primary and secondary schools”, organised by the Yuanzhuo initiative with Shanghai AI Laboratory’s smart education centre, and invited teachers and students to participate.
It described Shanghai AI Laboratory as a new type of research institution in China’s AI field, conducting strategic, original and forward-looking research and technological work. Its stated aim was to advance foundational theories and key core technologies through a large comprehensive research base combining breakthrough research, leadership and platform capabilities.
Puyu (OpenInnoLab) was introduced as a youth-oriented AI platform released by the laboratory’s smart education team. The notice described one-stop AI learning services for teachers and student innovators: advanced, varied, easy-to-use and connected learning and creation tools, supported by courses, practical cases and authoritative youth readers. Alongside popularising AI, it encouraged scientific inquiry and applied innovation with AI tools.
Session 1: What kind of AI education do primary and secondary schools need?
Scheduled in the original notice: 18 May 2024, 10:00–11:30.
Rapid developments in generative AI and the emergence of accessible learning tools offered new content and directions for school AI education. Using Tsinghua University Press’s lower-secondary information technology textbooks as examples, this session proposed designs for machine learning, deep learning and generative AI experiments. It would also examine student innovation projects to consider how AI education can support authentic problem-solving and interdisciplinary learning.
Zuoru Xie — original 2024 speaker profile
Zuoru Xie (谢作如) headed the AI innovation centre at Wenzhou Science and Technology High School and supervised innovation education at Shanghai AI Laboratory’s smart education centre. The original profile listed him as a distinguished teaching expert under Zhejiang’s “Ten Thousand Talents” programme, a special-grade teacher and a teacher holding full senior professional rank, with the following roles and experience:
- Vice-Chair of the Modern Educational Technology branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
- Standing council member of the Information Technology Education committee of the China Association for Educational Technology.
- Expert in the Ministry of Education project developing guidance for the comprehensive practical activities curriculum.
- Expert for the Ministry of Education’s National Teacher Training Programme during the 14th Five-Year Plan.
- Member of the expert pool for China’s STEM Education 2029 Innovation Action Plan.
- Member of the China-region Science Education Committee for NOAI international AI Olympiad academic activities; the name and abbreviation follow the original profile.
- Editor-in-Chief of Tsinghua University’s lower-secondary information technology textbooks.
- Invited speaker at UNESCO Mobile Learning Week in 2019.
Original participation details — historical record
Tencent Meeting number in the original notice: 169-925-573. The number and QR code below are retained as historical material, not a current meeting invitation.
Session 2: AI innovation activities designed specifically for young people
Scheduled in the original notice: 25 May 2024; no specific time was given.
Session 2 proposed an introduction to the “2024 National Youth AI Innovation Practice Activities — Co-creating the Future with AI” and its guidance, covering five activity themes:
- AI-generated art
- AI interaction design
- AI engineering practice
- AI algorithm challenges
- Collection of innovative AI teaching cases
It would also share resources and use the guidance to analyse representative projects, helping participants understand the activities, create their own work and pursue successful outcomes.
Haitao Wang — original 2024 speaker profile
Haitao Wang (王海涛) managed the youth AI innovation practice activities project at Shanghai AI Laboratory’s smart education centre.
Session 3: The AI Teaching Guidance Series for Primary and Secondary Schools, for schoolteachers
Scheduled in the original notice: 1 June 2024; no specific time was given.
The AI Teaching Guidance Series for Primary and Secondary Schools drew on recent school AI curriculum development and AI’s disciplinary characteristics. Based on a practice-oriented methodology, it proposed an applied AI teaching model and practical guidance for teachers planning AI courses. It selected cases at three stages to help teachers begin their AI teaching practice:
- Primary: four teaching cases.
- Lower secondary: four teaching cases.
- Upper secondary: four teaching cases.
Xiaoyu Liu — original 2024 speaker profile
Xiaoyu Liu (刘啸宇) was a senior AI teaching-and-research specialist at Shanghai AI Laboratory’s smart education centre. The original profile also listed:
- Member of East China Normal University’s research group on AI curriculum guidelines for primary and secondary schools.
- Editorial board member for People’s Education Press’s upper-secondary Information Technology selective compulsory module 4, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
- Deputy editor of a volume in Beijing Normal University Press’s AI Teaching Guidance Series for Primary and Secondary Schools.
About Yuanzhuo Classroom
The Chair’s original article also said that the Yuanzhuo initiative had run Yuanzhuo Classroom community activities since January 2022. It encouraged young people to solve real problems through original and innovative AI algorithms, connected universities, schools and technology companies, and sought youth AI projects to nurture with support in algorithms, computing power, datasets, knowledge and experience. Its stated aims were to advance youth AI education, showcase achievements internationally and contribute to China becoming a major global AI innovation centre. These are the project ambitions recorded in the original article.
Replays, materials and related courses
The original article directed readers to Yuanzhuo’s website for earlier video replays and course materials. The links below identify the public course introductions for the three sessions. Yuanzhuo official website
- Session 1: What kind of AI education do primary and secondary schools need?
- Session 2: AI innovation activities designed specifically for young people
- Session 3: The AI Teaching Guidance Series for Primary and Secondary Schools, for schoolteachers
These are public course introduction pages; access to replays, materials and learning activities depends on the platform’s actual access conditions.
Sources and editorial notes
- The original Chinese title, archive time of 8 May 2024 at 11:00 and URL are preserved. SLI’s corresponding notice was published on 16 May. The three sessions were dated 18 May, 25 May and 1 June; the announcement and later materials are distinguished. Original Chair notice · SLI notice of the same series
- Speaker roles, honours, platform descriptions and project ambitions retain their original 2024 context, without presenting them as current positions or functionality. The Chair article’s additional Yuanzhuo background and replay guidance are retained. The historical meeting number and QR code are not repurposed as a current invitation. Original Chair notice
- Pages 12, 16 and 47 of Yuanzhuo’s official Q2 2024 activities handbook corroborate the three topics, dates and speakers, with course IDs 228, 229 and 230. The third session is numbered 92 in the handbook but 90 in the course-page title; the story matches topic and date without rewriting those source numbers. Only the relevant pages were checked; the full 64-page handbook has not been translated. Handbook: session 1, PDF page 12 · Handbook: session 2, PDF page 16 · Handbook: session 3, PDF page 47
Original link: https://aiedchair.bnu.edu.cn/news-7209-en/
