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  • AI offers personalized learning paths for students and aids teachers in identifying student needs through AI-assisted lesson planning.
  • AI-enabled assessments provide real-time feedback to students and actionable insights for teachers, supporting governance and system monitoring.
  • Key initiatives like NEP 2020, DIKSHA, SOAR, SWAYAM, and UGC curriculum integration are extending AI to school and higher education.

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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.
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