Today, rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) has redefined education across the world to empower students and educators in learning. It is not by any means a replacement for teachers, but a tool to support in engaging with students, enhancing modes of instruction and increasing efficiency. While most AI tools in the sector are created to cater to students, India is stepping in with its unique approach to enable teachers with AI transformations.
From calculators to whiteboards, the process of digitising education, as we see it through the years, has witnessed many tech-drive advancements, AI being the most crucial turning point in edtech currently. As AI starts switching from an option to an essential part of education, teachers are able to derive and deliver exciting and enriching learning experiences to their students. Utilising AI is set to create new opportunities of customised, all encompassed learning, and reduced administrative tasks. Interactive classroom lessons to self-study content to automated tools for assessments and feedback, the intervention of AI can help teachers and students alike, in faster and inspired learning.
The standard AI tools that are available, come with its own challenges though. There is always an ongoing concern about privacy- especially of students, the accuracy of the content shared by AI platforms, the absence of data security in some cases, and also a learning gap with new technologies; these leave educators in a dubious position to take on the AI revolution.
AI is transforming the Indian education space, thanks to the companies that are creating AI-driven solutions to help the educators’ needs.
These systems are tailor made to empower teachers as effective facilitators and not to replace them, here is how:
Generating ideas to guide the classroom discussions and lead activities.
Help with planning lessons, creating presentations and assessment formats, thereby reducing preparation time, and increasing quality teaching time.
Teachers can access real-time assistance to effectively address student queries and explore different perspectives of the same topic.
Create personalised feedback tools to track and better utilise the students’ performance metrics
Teachers understand where they should intervene for all students collectively, and where individual targeted help is needed.
A lot of administrative documentation and paperwork that teachers are expected to work upon, can be automated.
This AI shift enables and empowers teachers, ensuring the importance and value attributed to an educator remains intact, while progressing with the digital changes of the time.
Educational AI platforms are delivering better content for various lessons and making them interactive in nature through:
Augmentation of lessons to easily create AI generated explanatory videos, graphics, 3D visualisations, and data charts.
Simplifying complex scientific, mathematical, or any other concepts by using AI-based simulations and interactive 3D models.
Adapting study materials and current affairs in real-time, to suit different styles of teaching and learning, ensures that each student’s doubts are addressed.
By enhancing the content and making it more accessible and entertaining, teachers can ensure active engagement and enjoyable learning in classrooms.
In all forms of learning, active engagement is crucial and AI-driven tools can enhance interaction with knowledge in these ways:
Personalised games that encourage active participation in learning, taking up challenges and gathering rewards.
AI tailored assessments, trivia and quizzes sharpen students memory and proficiency, this way also giving immediate feedback to teachers.
Interactive study aids like AI chatbots and virtual assistants that enable students with instant solutions and explanations to queries and also provide practice papers or guides.
These tools ensure that learning remains dynamic and responsive, catering to diverse student needs while supporting teachers in maintaining engagement.
With its numerous advantages, the consistent fear of data privacy, security and access remains poignant with AI. Teacher and student information must remain protected, free of bias, and transparent for all kinds of users. The AI ecosystem should be created with the users in mind- meaning that it must be a secure space, that is mindful of sensitive data and information. There should not be a space for misuse or misconduct through these tools, and everything should be set in an education-driven framework.
Educational institutions and those in the business of education must ensure that these tools become accessible to educators and students across the country. Teachers must also be trained adequately to be well equipped with these tools and how to use them effectively. They must ideally have simple and intuitive User Interfaces, to allow teachers to focus on instruction rather than complex prompt engineering. The AI developers and leading companies in the space must also regularly do check-ins with the users and update their systems regularly to update the changing information landscape.
By being powerful allies to teachers, AI is driving education to be more engaging and interesting for students. With data led feedback into teaching processes, automated tasks and personalised training modules, teachers can ensure effective education and student outcomes. That being said, in no way can AI replace teachers.
The future paves way for more systemic developments in edtech, like AR/VR learning, smarter integrations, better tutoring solutions etc. Technology and teachers will be working together to create richer learning environments. We are on our way to see how we can adopt technology to revolutionize education in India.
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