Importance of AI in Education
- For Students: Offers personalised Learning Paths and Remediation assessing a student’s level in real-time to adjust difficulty, format, or pace of content. E.g., MindCraft, platform for rural students offers tailored content.
- For Teachers: NCERT study (2024) revealed that teachers who receive pre-service with AI-assisted lesson planning tools were better able to identify student needs.
- Assessments: AI-enabled assessments can prove to be formative and ongoing, offering students real-time feedback and providing teachers with actionable insights.
- Governance and System Monitoring: Through predictive analytics and AI-powered dashboards.
- Inclusive Education: Support learners with disabilities via assistive AI tools, offering multilingual/ dialectical support.
Key Initiatives taken for Extending AI to Education
- National Education Policy (NEP) 2020: Acknowledges role of AI, big data and machine learning in driving transformation.
- School Education: Integration of AI into school curricula through CBSE and NCERT, under NEP 2020 and National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023.
- AI-Courses for Students and Educators: DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing), SOAR (Skilling for AI Readiness) to build AI awareness and skills for classes 6–12 students and educators; SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) platform offers free AI courses from IITs and IISc, etc.
- Higher Education: University Grants Commission (UGC), 2022 undergraduate curriculum includes AI, 3D machining, big data analysis, machine learning, etc.
- Research and Development: National Research Foundation, One Nation One Subscription, etc.
Article Sources
1 sourceNITI Ayog and UNICEF India, through IMPAct4Nutrition (I4N) platform signed Statement of Intent to Strengthen Nutrition and Health Outcomes in Aspirational Districts and Blocks.
IMPAct4Nutrition Initiative to Mobilize Private Action for Nutrition (I4N)
About I4N platform
- Serves as a central hub of knowledge and resources on nutrition.
- Acts as connection between businesses and broader social movement surrounding POSHAN 2.0.
- POSHAN 2.0 aims to achieve improvement in key nutrition parameters for both children and women.
- It includes ACE Card initiative (Assets for nutrition, CSR for Nutrition and Employees engagement for Nutrition) to accelerate behaviour change towards improved nutrition literacy and dietary habits in the work ecosystem.
