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                                   A game changer for education



    The importance of artificial intelligence in transforming the education system of India
                                                 in the coming years




               “Machine  intelligence                             get  targeted  and  customised  responses
               is  the  last  invention                           from  their  teachers.  Even  though  these
               that  humanity  will                               methods are still in their inception stage,
               ever  need  to  make”.                             these  methods  would  go  on  to  become
               Bringing  about  new                               full-  fledged  methods  of  teaching  and

               discoveries     artificial                         learning  thereby  catering  to      the
               intelligence  it  is  here    Vasundhara           educational  needs  of  students.  As
               to     transform     the     Dempo (11A)           students born in a digital era like this. AI
               education       industry                           we  will  be  able  to  enrich  our  IT  skills
               thereby     brining    about     wonderful         with more inventions.
               transactions  in  the  education  sectors
               benefiting  students  and  teachers  alike.        In  conclusion,  we  will  all  have  to  be
               From  being  surrounded  by  automatic             accustomed to this drastic change in the

               parking system, smart sensors for taking           coming years. The education sector will
               spectacular  photographs  and  personal            shape  itself  in  the  AI  domain,  inspiring
               assistance.    AI  in  the  education  sector      the young budding youth of our country
               will  be  felt,  transforming  all  the            and the world to experience what it is to
               traditional    methods       of    learning        get an AI style of education. They would
               drastically.                                       have  a  new  zest  of  learning  as  learning
                                                                  would  be  made  more  interesting  and
               We  students  and  teachers  will  no  more        productive for all students. I predict that
               have  to  worry  about  the  long  and             because  of  artificial  intelligence  and  its
               stressful  process  of  submission  and            ability  to  automate  certain  tasks  that  in
               corrections,  all  thanks  to  software            the  past  were  impossible  to  automate.
               providers who are coming up with super             Now it would be interesting to see how

               beneficial  ways  of  grading  written             AI takes its shapes in the world. Not only
               answers  and  normal  essays.  AI  and             would     we     become     a    wealthier
               education  go  hand  by  hand  and  is  very       civilisation, but the quality of work will
               instrumental in shaping a child’s life and         go  up  very  significantly  and  a  higher
               helping  them  reach  their  ultimate              fraction of people will have callings and
               education  system.  Smart  contents  that          carriers relative to today.
               includes  virtual  contents  like  video

               conferencing and video lectures.                   Vasundhara  Dempo  is  a  student  of
                                                                  11th  humanities  who  is  deeply
               Research  indicates  that  instant  feedback       passionate about writing poetry. Some
               is  the  key  to  successful  tutoring.            of    her    favourite     hobbies     are
               Especially  during  a  pandemic  like  this        practicing Bharatnatyam and reading
               wherein  we  have  moved  on  towards              books.  She  is  extremely  fond  of

               learning  and  teaching  virtually  we
               require  AI  apps  through  which  students        learning  about  artificial  intelligence.


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