This study explored the competencies and artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum of the AI era through domestic and foreign literature reviews while seeking the expertise of the AI era, for the competencies and information education area, in Practical Arts of the AI era. Based on these competencies, the content system of the information education area in Practical Arts was investigated. The results of this study are as follows.
First, competencies in the AI era consist of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, and transformative competencies, which develop while influencing each other. The knowledge consists of eight content areas: introduction to AI, machine learning, searching, representation and inference, data, computer vision, natural language processing, and ethics, values, attitudes. Skills comprises cognitive skills, soft skills, and hard skills. Among these, hard skills are directly related to information education and are composed of digital literacy, computational thinking, and AI literacy. Values and attitudes are divided into personal values, social values, social values, and human values. Second, by adding practical, physical skills to the skills area of competencies in the AI era, competencies in the AI era for information education area in Practical Arts can be set. Additionally, digital literacy, which belongs to hard skills, is a prerequisite for computational thinking and AI literacy, and computational thinking is a prerequisite for AI literacy. Third, the content system of the information education area in Practical Arts is divided into three areas: digital application, software, and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, it includes skills, values and attitudes, and transformative competencies which are universally relevant, across all areas of Practical Arts.
This study concluded that the competencies of the AI era for the information education area in Practical Arts should be composed of holistic and complementary elements, and that they were necessary for all areas of the Practical Arts.