South Korea's AI Textbook Experiment: What Went Wrong
South Korea set out to become the first country to bring AI-powered textbooks into public schools. Parliament then stripped those textbooks of their legal status. Here is how it unraveled.
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South Korea set out to become the first country to bring AI-powered textbooks into public schools. Parliament then stripped those textbooks of their legal status. Here is how it unraveled.
As of March 2026, roughly 60% of schools worldwide ban or restrict smartphones — up from 40% just a year earlier. France is expanding its ban to high schools, Germany is tightening rules state by state. AI walks into the classroom; the smartphone waits outside. How should we make sense of this paradox?
In September 2025, Estonia launched the AI Leap program, providing free AI learning tools to 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers nationwide. While Korea's AI digital textbook experiment has struggled, this small European country is quietly leading the way.