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When you think of AI education, what scene comes to mind first?
It's probably learning how to use generative AI, or experiencing the latest AI technology firsthand.
The '2026 Seoul AI Lifelong Learning Running Ground,' held October 23–24 at The Seoul Lithium, was full of programs like that.
Humanoid and VR experiences, matches where people and AI compete at drawing and Gomoku, and expert lectures on the AGI era continued over two days.
Within that, the Play Ground asked a slightly different question.
If AI can do this much, what strength do people need?
Deciding what to ask, checking whether the answer received is right, and judging with what attitude to use the technology.
The more AI finds answers for us, the more these are things people must do themselves.
The difficult part is that these abilities are not easy to convey in words.
You may hear "the power to ask questions matters" many times, but it doesn't really sink in until you try it yourself.
RealWorld, together with the Seoul Metropolitan Lifelong Education Promotion Institute, created quests that can only be solved by actually using these abilities.
We'd like to introduce <AI Learning Forest: Future Talent Secret Code>, operated at the Play Ground of the Running Ground.
The "Learning Forest" That Began Asking AI First
The story's stage is the once-peaceful "Learning Forest."
But as the forest's friends began asking AI for answers to everything first,
they lost the ability to ask questions and think for themselves.
Then the "Future Talent Secret Code," which had guarded the forest, scattered into five pieces,
and the doors to the 6 STAGEs were tightly shut.
Participants must explore the STAGEs in order, gather the scattered pieces, and reopen the forest.
Along the way, they meet four friends.
'Ai,' who never stops asking questions, handles inquiry skills;
'Rogi,' who spots errors hidden in plausible-looking information, handles fact-checking;
'Talkie,' who connects people's hearts first, handles empathic communication;
and 'Seou-ri,' the forest guide, ties the scattered abilities together.
The friends tell you the poster number of the next STAGE to visit,
and each STAGE's problem is themed on that friend's ability.
Instead of explaining the abilities, we have people try them out
The first STAGE is Ai's "power to ask questions."
The poster has a pixel picture split into three pieces.
Looked at one by one, they mean nothing,
but when you mentally overlay the three pieces, an English word appears.
It carries the message that even AI gives you the answer you want only when you ask the right question.
The second STAGE is Rogi's "discerning eye."
The poster shows data organized by the same rule,
but one of them does not fit the rule.
Participants must find the wrong data, then apply the correct rule to obtain the verification value.
This resembles the process of picking out errors in AI answers that look plausible.
The stages that follow cover empathy, digital ethics, and creative convergence through a ladder-climbing game, mirror-text reading, and finding the overlapping area of three circles.
The difficulty is set so that upper elementary school students can solve it without trouble.
The final STAGE, opened by gathering the five pieces
Each time you clear a STAGE, one shape and one code message are revealed.
When all five pieces are gathered, the final STAGE opens.
The final mission continues outside the screen.
Participants must go find the "Messenger" in sunglasses who walks around the venue.
Talking to the Messenger reveals the answer to the mission.
Since this is a story about a forest that lost its power to think after asking AI for answers first,
the final answer is designed to be asked of and heard from people directly.
Arranging the shapes collected here in the order of the final poster completes the forest's promise.
"Today's learning opens tomorrow's possibilities"
Rather than posting the slogan in large letters on the poster,
we had participants assemble it themselves from the pieces they collected.
Participants who completed the whole journey received a certification card as a gift.
It is a souvenir that stays with them even after they leave the venue.
A 15-Minute Quest Within the Event
<Future Talent Secret Code> runs as a mobile web experience.
It can be started right away on a smartphone, with no app installation, sign-up, or login.
On site, six A3 posters were put up, and a Messenger walked around to greet participants.
Because STAGEs open one at a time in order,
where the posters are placed also determines the participants' route.
Play time is about 15 minutes.
Given the nature of an event where people move between multiple grounds to experience things,
it was a fitting length even for visitors who find it hard to stay long at one program.
Because no separate booth construction is needed,
it is also low-burden to include as one program within a large event.
For education with a clear message to convey
AI literacy, digital citizenship education, and future-competency education
are topics with messages that must be delivered, but that easily become tedious for the listener.
When you turn those messages into problems and have participants solve them directly,
they stick in a different way from content received through lectures.
From lifelong learning centers, libraries, and schools to education expos,
we'd welcome the chance to talk with RealWorld about what kind of quest your organization's education topic could become.
Thank you :)