| 英文摘要 |
This paper documents Professor Yao-Ting Sung’s keynote speech at the 2025 Gifted Education Academic Conference, centering on the concept of agency as the defining human capacity for meaning-making, in contrast to AI’s meaning imitation. Sung reviewed his team’s development of AI-assisted learning systems, including intelligent writing, adaptive reading, and speech recognition, and cautioned that AI in educational contexts may lead to declines in critical thinking, overreliance, polarized learning outcomes, and cognitive outsourcing. He proposed three educational priorities: returning to foundational skills (computational thinking and questioning), developing higher-order thinking (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creativity), and cultivating digital literacy with psychological resilience, while highlighting concerns over weakened reading literacy and shallow learning. The paper further extends Sung’s ideas by linking agency to gifted education in three ways: fostering self-regulated learning to sustain critical and creative capacity, implementing higher-order thinking through systems thinking and problem design, and deepening autonomous learning and independent research while upholding ethical standards and evaluative judgment. It concludes that gifted education should integrate both foundational literacy and advanced thinking skills to ensure students retain human distinctiveness and competitiveness in the AI era. |