The rapidly accelerating era of AI transformation makes nations to fundamentally reform their education systems. To secure national AI competitiveness and cultivate future talent, South Korea has integrated digital basic literacy into the 2022 Revised Curriculum and established comprehensive policies for AI education. This study conducts a comparative analysis of programming education contents in elementary school textbooks under the 2015 Revised Curriculum and the 2022 Revised Curriculum. By systematically examining the curriculum's content systems, achievement standards, and corresponding textbook activities, this research elucidates structural and conceptual shifts in instructional design. Specifically, the analysis reveals a significant pedagogical transition in the presentation order of algorithmic concepts, evolving from 'sequence-selection-repetition' in the 2015 curriculum to 'sequence-repetition-selection' in the 2022 curriculum. Furthermore, this study provides a detailed comparative examination of how specific programming elements such as data input and output, variables, sequence, count controlled and condition controlled loops, as well as simple, complex, and nested conditions are newly emphasized or restructured in textbooks reflecting the 2022 Revised Curriculum compared to textbooks reflecting the 2015 Revised Curriculum. The findings demonstrate a clear evolution from function oriented coding toward a data centric problem solving approach. This structural transformation offers critical implications for enhancing students' digital basic literacy and computational thinking, ensuring that programming education aligns with the essential competencies required in the AI transformation era.

Authors:
Seungki Shin, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea
Hyunjae Choi, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea

About the Presenter(s)
Hyunjae Choi, a Ph.D. candidate at SNUE and teacher at Seoul Macheon Elementary School, studies programming education. He is currently involved in a government project to improve students' device management guidelines for Korean students.

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