Karnataka launches AI-powered digital assistant for govt school teachers to improve learning outcome
Bengaluru: Karnataka School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa on Friday launched the Shiksha Co-pilot, an AI-powered digital assistant for government school teachers which aims to improve learning outcomes.
The project is a collaboration between the Sikshana Foundation and Microsoft Research India.
Bangarappa stated the project aims to enhance learning outcomes among students and empower teachers to create comprehensive, personalised teaching resources and learning experiences grounded in local curriculum, language and context. He emphasised that automating lesson planning and resource generation will allow teachers to focus more on addressing the individual learning needs of their students. Additionally, he mentioned that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has instructed them to take the necessary steps to improve the quality of education in government schools through the integration of AI.
“It will also support the dynamic curation of engaging teaching resources such as hands-on activities, assessments, real-world examples/ applications, short videos and comprehensive lesson plans based on teachers’ inputs. It also provides a chat-bot for teachers for self-learning and interactive content generation,” said a release.
The project will initially support 1,000 teachers from government schools across the state, which will later be extended.
Prasanna V.R., Chief Executive Officer of Sikshana Foundation, stated that GenAI has the potential to revolutionise multiple sectors. “We feel that a GenAI-based tool in the hands of the teachers will help in vastly improving learning outcomes,” he added.
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We received request; will decide soon whether to support TVK: Thirumavalavan
Chennai (PTI): VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday said that his party received a request from TVK for support and the high-level committee of his party will decide whether to support the Vijay-led party to form the government.
The TVK won 108 seats in the 234-member Assembly and emerged as the single largest party. Vijay will have to resign from one of the two constituencies he has won.
Though the Congress party, which has five MLAs, has extended support to TVK, the actor-politician-led party was still short of as many seats to touch the magic number of 118, the majority mark in the 234-member House.
"We received the request letter from TVK. We are thankful for that. We have not ignored his (Vijay's) request. We have a procedure. Therefore, our party's high-level committee will decide soon. We are going to discuss the merits and demerits of our position," the VCK leader told reporters here.
With regard to the delay in the governor's call to the TVK, which is the single largest party, to form the government, Thirumavalavan requested the governor to invite Vijay to form the government. "It is a constitutional right and people's verdict," he added.
Asserting that the governor cannot say that Vijay should hold 118 MLAs' support now itself to form the government, he said that after taking over power, Vijay has to prove an absolute majority only on the floor of the Assembly.
