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"South Korean students perform well on international tests. But like students all over the world, they are less and less engaged with school. They just don't like it." (QZ) Like most other countries, South Korea is struggling with keeping their students engaged with learning. Students are indeed smarter in South Korea, but they are still bored in the classroom. Ju Ho Lee, the former minister of education, science, and technology in South Korea believes one solution may be to embrace a model called "high-tech, high-touch" learning. As the diagram at the bottom of the page shows, "High-Tech" is adaptive learning that uses AI and Mobiles to first remember the information and then understand the information. After that, "High-Touch" is a project-based learning method that uses teachers to teach the information. First you apply your knowledge, then you analyze it. After that you evaluate your findings and then create your own ideas based off your findings. In South Korea, the mobile generation is ready for tech-supported learning, but the teachers, according to Lee, are not. "Teachers are not changing their teaching style."




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