By Manav Subodh-Founder & MD of 1M1B ( One Million for Billion)
The year 2023 has witnessed an explosive change in the education and skill training ecosystem in the form of increased usage of AI, which is everywhere and has grown into an essential skill that our classrooms, school systems, and university systems need to respond to.
A few steps have been taken in the right direction. CBSE has already introduced AI as a subject for grades 9-12 and as a skill subject for grades 6–8. These are great systemic changes; however, the desired outcomes and scale cannot be achieved unless we integrate AI into our classrooms and upskill teachers.
In the space of education and skilling, Generative AI is going to empower us to strengthen our future economy and be revolutionary in its ability to provide a robust system of support for teachers and youths. The Way Forward is the need to look at AI in two different ways: first, how can AI make education better (AI for Education), and second, we need to look at how AI can be taught at scale and more inclusively in classrooms (AI in Education). Leveraging AI, India has this unique opportunity to become from a back office of the world to the front office of the world developing products and services for the rest of the world to consume.
Our aim in 2024 must be to ensure that teachers, students, and children in rural areas have equal access to technology as in metro cities. By integrating new technologies from the ground up, we can avoid the need to catch up later and instead adopt a more grassroots approach. In the current era of AI and digital advancements, we can take a bottom-up approach, aiming to empower individuals facing challenges by providing them with the benefits of technology. Let’s use this wave as an opportunity to completely change and re-work our education system where AI can be used as an education equalizer