Design and Application of Pedagogical Agent with Foundation Model
With the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence,agent with foundation model has gradually acquired the capabilities of multimodal perception,retrieval and augmentation generation,reasoning and planning,interaction,and evolution.In this study,we propose the basic concept and framework of pedagogical agent with foundational model,with foundation model as the core,focusing on the construction of"educational task setting","educational task planning","educational capability realization and expansion","educational content memory and reflection","interactive collaboration and dynamic evolution".It also supports interaction with multiple types of objects and dynamic evolution,covering human-computer interaction,multi-agent interaction,and environment interaction.Based on the proposed framework,this study takes the project-based learning task as an application scenario,and describes how the proposed pedagogical agent can be used as"assistant agent"and"peer agent"in personalization-driven problem posing,co-design of the project plan,collaborative completion of the project work,and multi-role evaluation of the project work.Finally,this study further discusses the future development and outlook of pedagogical agent.