Ai & Education - The Way Forward

Abstract

The cataclysmic set of events unleashed by the wrath of a single virus highlighted the vulnerabilities and the major fault lines that existed in the Education sector across the globe. India certainly was no exception to it. Mired by the past, the colonial legacy still gets retained by our education sector, despite being changed under various governments. Credit where its due, the New Education Policy 2020 certainly has made a lot of welcome changes to break free of the colonial past and adapt to the rapidly changing contemporary society. However, we need to make our education system more flexible and more amenable to change. The pandemic certainly made it very challenging for all the stakeholders connected to field of education to adapt with the rapidly changing environment. ICT Pedagogy skills became primary prerequisites for all the different stakeholders, may it be the teachers or the students. We were suddenly on the precipice of a world which is ready to be fully immersed by the rapidly changing universe of AI. AI certainly will become a ubiquitous commodity in the future and the education sector cannot afford to stay behind. AI can bring revolutionary changes to the field of education provided the sector is adaptable and receptive to the changing needs and times.