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Kerala shows the way to induct AI in classrooms

It is the first time in India that all students in a class are getting an opportunity to learn AI uniformly, says Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education.

News Arena Network - Thiruvananthapuram - UPDATED: May 30, 2024, 12:07 PM - 7 mins read

Kerala shows the way to induct AI in classrooms

Kerala shows the way to induct AI in classrooms

India’s first AI teacher ‘Iris’ interacts with students at a school, at Attingal, in Thiruvananthapuram.


In a significant stride towards modernising education, Kerala has embarked on a pioneering initiative by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its school textbooks.

 

The state has unveiled plans to introduce AI learning modules within the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) curriculum for Class 7 students.

 

This move is poised to impact over 4 lakh students across Kerala, who will now have the opportunity to delve into the realm of AI in the upcoming academic year, according to a release issued by the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) on Wednesday.

 

KITE CEO Anvar Sadath said one of the activities in the ‘Computer Vision’ chapter will involve students creating their own AI programme that can recognise human facial expressions.

 

“This programme will be able to identify up to seven different emotions on a person’s face. It is the first time in India that all students in a class are getting an opportunity to learn AI uniformly,” he said.

 

The new Academic Year which kickstarts on June 3rd, 2024 will see new ICT textbooks for Classes 1, 3, 5, and 7 in Malayalam, English, Tamil, and Kannada mediums.

 

The curriculum framework emphasises the development of children’s critical thinking, analytical skills, and problem-solving abilities, which are essential for their holistic development.

 

The ‘PictoBlox’ package, along with ‘Scratch’ software that teaches visual programming, is introduced in the textbooks to enable students to practice programming, AI, robotics, and so on.

 

KITE, the technology arm of Depart of General Education, will make available all the essential software for this in the laptops deployed in schools.

 

He said the new ICT textbooks for Classes 1 and 3 include FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) based educational applications such as GCompris, eduActiv8, OmniTux, and TuxPaint which cover drawing, reading, language learning, numeracy, operations, and rhythm.

 

In addition to these, applications developed by KITE such as Traffic Signal through which children learn about traffic rules, and Waste Challenge which teaches waste disposal through gaming mode are also included in the ICT textbook.

 

Further, Language labs are also featured in the new textbooks.

 

“The new ICT textbooks present practical ICT activities that nurture life skills while also helping in the study of other subjects and providing guidance on cyber safety and fake news identification,” said Sadath, who is the Chairman of ICT Textbook Committee.

 

The release said KITE commenced the AI training for 80,000 secondary school teachers from May 2 onwards and so far 20,120 teachers completed the training.

 

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