The Effect of Design Classes Using Artificial Intelligence in the Era of COVID-19 on Social Responsibility of High School Students

Background As online classes have been activated due to COVID-19, the need for edutech education using technology rather than classes using existing textbooks and teaching tools been raised in the educational field. Accordingly, this study examines artificial intelligence education according to the activation of edutech education according to the COVID-19 era. The purpose of this study is to investigate how high school design classes using artificial intelligence affect social responsibility. Methods After examining the trends, policies, and cases of artificial intelligence education following the revitalization of edutech education due to COVID-19, based on the analysis of related prior research, the 6th session of the high school art subject design lesson plan was developed. Afterwards, three design education experts and three AI technology experts were consulted twice, and the contents were revised and supplemented. From October to November 2020, the 6th class was applied to a total of 96 students in the first and second grades of H High School in Seoul. The data collected in this study were subjected to computational statistics using SPSS, and the significance level was in the range of p<.05, p<.01, and p<.001. Results As a result of the pre and post-analysis results, a matched-sample t-test was conducted to explore the educational effect of all 96 respondents. As a statistically significant educational result in all five domains of sexual attitude, responsibility obligation, responsibility ability, responsibility efficacy, and responsibility performance, the overall factor was 0.66 from the pretest (M=3.69) to the posttest (M=4.35). An educational effect was verified. Conclusions Through this study, high school design classes using artificial intelligence have a positive effect on students' social responsibility. Although there are limitations in generalizing the study by conducting the study with students in four classes, it is expected that continuous and meaningful research on similar subjects will be achieved. © This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted educational and non-commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.