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A New Transformation of Literacy Education in the Era of Generative AI

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2023, (89), pp.255-285
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.089.08
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 24, 2023
  • Accepted : April 17, 2023
  • Published : May 31, 2023

OH, MIN JUNG 1 Kim, Jong-Gyu 2

1성균관대학교
2울산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the problems of educational changes in the era of digital transformation and presents a new direction for digital literacy education for a better future in education. In the era of rapid digital transformation, the educational environment, conditions of education, as well as literacy education are in the process of change. Therefore, the importance of digital literacy is more emphasized than ever. However, we still do not fully understand the essential concept of digital literacy. Due to the lack of sufficient understanding, digital literacy education is not being conducted in the proper direction. In turn, the problem of ‘functional illiterate’ has arisen. This paper briefly compares the perspective of literacy and digital literacy shown in, with our case, Germany, and seeks to find the essential meaning of literacy, which is the ability to construct and understand reality: a condition for human existence. I would like to clarify that future literacy education should be the foundation for recognizing the diversity of reality and building a better life. Literacy education can also be understood as a part of skill education, within the context of use. As technical education, literacy education is likely to trigger a literacy crisis within itself. Therefore, it is necessary to try another transition for the digital transformation and Generative AI that is heading toward the era of new technology. We need a perspective of and a direction for this new transition. Human life is not dependent on and defined by technology. As a result, it is important to secure the possibility that human life can unfold widely in mutual relationships. Ultimately, future literacy education should move towards education that broadly and diversely understands the world based on the original meaning of literacy.

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