From Skill Imparting to Intelligent Literacy: A Study on the Transformation of Environmental Design Teaching Paradigms in the AI Era

Abstract

The rapid development of AI technology has restructured the production logic and talent demand of the environmental design industry. The traditional teaching paradigm centered on skill imparting is no longer able to meet the industry’s demands for intelligent literacy. This article focuses on the transformation of environmental design teaching paradigms in the AI era. Through theoretical analysis methods, it defines the composition and connotation of intelligent literacy, and proposes that it includes four dimensions: AI tool application literacy, data-driven design literacy, AI collaborative innovation literacy, and intelligent design ethics literacy. The four form an organic system of “basic support - core ability - bottom-line guarantee”. On this basis, a transformation strategy is constructed from four aspects: the curriculum system, the teaching staff ’s capabilities, the practical platform, and the school-enterprise collaboration. It emphasizes that the modularization of the curriculum should be precisely aligned with the dimension of literacy, the construction of the teaching staff should focus on the cultivation of “dual-qualified” capabilities, practical teaching should rely on real project scenarios, and the school-enterprise collaboration should be synchronized with teaching content.