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Kerala Integrates AI into School Curriculum for 2024-25 Academic Year

Kerala Integrates Ai Into School Curriculum For 2024 25 Academic Year

In a significant stride towards modernizing education, Kerala has launched an initiative to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its school textbooks. Kerala’s Minister for General Education, V. Sivankutty, recently distributed school textbooks for the 2024-25 academic year, marking the start of this innovative program.

The state plans to introduce AI learning modules within the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) curriculum for Class 7 students, impacting over 4 lakh students across Kerala. The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) announced this pioneering step, which will allow students to explore AI in the upcoming academic year.

KITE CEO Anvar Sadath highlighted that the ‘Computer Vision’ chapter will include an activity where students create an AI program capable of recognizing human facial expressions, identifying up to seven different emotions. This is the first time in India that AI education is being uniformly provided to an entire class of students.

The new academic year, starting on June 3rd, 2024, will introduce new ICT textbooks for Classes 1, 3, 5, and 7 in Malayalam, English, Tamil, and Kannada. These textbooks emphasize critical thinking, analytical skills, and problem-solving abilities. The curriculum also focuses on developing logical thinking and programming skills for primary-level students.

The textbooks will include the ‘PictoBlox’ package and ‘Scratch’ software to teach visual programming, AI, and robotics. KITE will provide all necessary software for these activities on school laptops. Additionally, new ICT textbooks for Classes 1 and 3 will feature Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) based educational applications like GCompris, eduActiv8, OmniTux, and TuxPaint, covering a range of subjects from drawing to numeracy.

Applications developed by KITE, such as Traffic Signal and Waste Challenge, are also included to teach traffic rules and waste disposal through gaming. Language labs and guidance on cyber safety and fake news identification are also part of the new textbooks.

KITE began AI training for 80,000 secondary school teachers on May 2, with 20,120 teachers completing the training so far. Training for primary school teachers on the new ICT textbooks will commence in June. New ICT textbooks for Classes 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 will be introduced in the next academic year.

 

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