Practice and Effectiveness of AI-Enabled Higher Vocational Classrooms from the Perspective of Cultural Integration

Against the backdrop of the internationalization and digitalization of vocational education, the Sino-Italian cooperative education program provides an important platform for cross-cultural talent cultivation in the packaging planning and design major of higher vocational colleges. Taking the Sino-foreign cooperative education program of this major at Zhejiang DongFang Polytechnic as a research sample, this paper focuses on the perspective of cultural integration and explores the feasible practical paths of artificial intelligence (AI) technology empowering higher vocational classrooms. By constructing an innovative teaching model integrating cultural immersion and AI empowerment, a three-stage practical exploration is carried out from curriculum restructuring, teaching implementation, and evaluation feedback, and the application effectiveness is deeply analyzed combined with teaching data and typical cases. The research results show that the introduction of AI technology has broken through the problems of low teaching efficiency and limited teaching resources in cross-cultural classrooms. The survey data after the teaching reform shows that students' course satisfaction has increased to 90%, and the excellent and good rate of cross-cultural projects has reached 92%. This practice provides replicable and promotable experience for the classroom teaching reform of Sino-foreign cooperative education majors in higher vocational colleges.