What should the education sector do in the face of AI challenges?

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) products by candidates to cheat in the 2025 high school graduation exam is unprecedented in Vietnam.

This phenomenon shows that education and training are facing many challenges in the digital age, especially the issue of fairness and impartiality in assessments and exams.

AI offers many new opportunities for education and training, enabling students to proactively learn anytime, anywhere, personalize their learning process, and develop critical thinking skills. However, this process also poses challenges in assessing students' abilities, as cheating becomes more sophisticated and the risk of it occurring in all learning processes increases. Students can use AI to complete assignments, write essays, and solve problems in online exams. This makes it difficult to determine the true capabilities of learners. Therefore, learning and assessment need to shift accordingly to keep pace with AI, leverage its advantages, and master AI to accurately assess learners' abilities.

An ethics lesson using AI at Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School (Buon Ma Thuot ward).

According to Distinguished Teacher Tran Duc Huyen, Principal of Hoang Viet Primary, Secondary, and High School (Tan An Ward), AI is essentially a tool, a means, and not inherently flawed. The issue of cheating lies in the ethics and integrity of the learners and candidates. Therefore, ethical education for users is necessary beforehand to ensure responsible, secure, and honest use of AI. In the school environment, ethical education should be implemented across all subjects and lesson content; teachers should guide students in using AI (as a tool and collaborator) for effective learning by answering questions and finding methods, while the students themselves remain the primary focus of the learning process…

"The nature of AI is that it is a tool, a means, and it is not inherently flawed. The issue of cheating lies in the ethics and integrity of the learners and candidates."

Distinguished Teacher Tran Duc Huyen

To achieve that goal, schools must integrate AI into educational activities to enhance students' learning abilities and teachers' creativity. Each teacher, when teaching, must possess knowledge of AI to guide students in effectively utilizing AI in their subjects.

Mr. Mai Dinh Bich, Principal of Hoang Hoa Tham Secondary School (Ea Tul commune), believes that integrating AI into schools is an inevitable trend. The school has already utilized AI in its administration and management during the 2024-2025 school year; guiding teachers to proactively learn about AI products for use in research and lesson planning; and directly using them in each lesson by creating videos illustrating situations and experiments found in textbooks…

Alongside learning, the school aims to assess students' abilities fairly and transparently, in line with the digital context. Distinguished Teacher Tran Duc Huyen added that the school has shifted from evaluating results to evaluating the learning process for many years now. Teachers assign tasks and guide students in using AI to solve them; then, they check students' understanding through similar exercises in class or discussion sessions with modified questions but retaining the main points. This ensures that students truly understand the material to answer correctly, rather than simply copying the AI's solution.

It's the end of the school day for students at Hoang Hoa Tham Secondary School (Ea Tul commune).

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Duc Niem, Vice Rector of Tay Nguyen University, affirmed that AI users must be responsible and take ownership of, and lead, the AI. This means that whether AI creates economic models, analyzes literature, or writes perfect essays, users must read, understand, and be able to edit and adjust the content. Educational institutions must innovate their methods of testing and evaluating students, creating unexpected elements in questions or assignments. This could involve requiring students to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of an AI-generated model or find alternative solutions. Student evaluation should also be linked to direct, reasoned interviews, because while AI can help students write perfect essays, the process of reporting and answering questions from the evaluation committee will reveal the student's true understanding; along with increasing the proportion of direct assessment points in the overall score structure to more accurately assess student capabilities.

Thanh Huong

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/giao-duc/202507/nganh-giao-duc-can-lam-gi-truoc-thach-thuc-cua-ai-2de1279/