80,000 secondary school teachers to be trained in AI

The rst-of-its-kind hands-on training will empower teachers to identify potential risks associated with AI while fostering a culture of responsible usage, says KITE CEO K. Anvar Sadath

If all goes to plan, 80,000 secondary teachers in the State will by August be equipped to create and edit subjectspecic visuals for the classroom using articial intelligence (AI), regenerate them as cartoons or painting, simplify complex documents and generate their concise summaries, and even summarise images and videos.

This will be made possible by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE)’s rst-ofits-kind hands-on training in articial intelligence (AI) for secondary school teachers that will be launched next month.

The three-day special training, to begin on May 2, intends to empower teachers of Classes VIII to XII to identify potential risks associated with AI while fostering a culture of responsible usage, as decided in a meeting chaired by Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty in February, says KITE chief executive oŒcer K. Anvar Sadath.

The AI training will focus on ‘Summarisation’ techniques to simplify complex text and PDF documents, images, and videos; generate summaries that retain crucial information; and even create new content using AI tools.

Programming tools

Teachers will learn ‘image generation’ techniques to create and edit visuals, transform them into cartoons or paintings, and integrate text with images, and use live programming tools to improve pictures.

Day 2 of the training will focus on ‘prompt engineering’ and ‘machine learning.’ It will help teachers formulate precise prompts essential for e”ective utilisation of AI tools and understand its programming mechanisms by actually doing it. Through ‘data visualisation,’ teachers will explore how AI can be harnessed to create presentations and animations, and generate and customise tables, graphs, and charts. Elements of prompting for text and image generation and development of simple AI programme will be covered.

Next will be ‘assessment’ wherein teachers will be familiarised with AI techniques for evaluation, enabling them to design various question formats such as ll in the blanks, match the following, multiple choice; prepare questions of various diŒculty levels such as easy, average, diŒcult, application level; and prepare unit tests.

“In the training, teachers will create their own avatars to understand the concept of deepfakes, while gaining insights into privacy concerns and algorithm bias,” Mr. Sadath said.

Each batch will have 25 teachers with two trainers. The G-Suite accounts created for teachers by KITE will be used to ensure data privacy while using AI tools; teachers will not have to use their private email ids and other credentials. The training will leverage a dynamic selection of tools recommended by KITE’s expert committee to help teachers personalise learning activities for each student and customise resources to be inclusive for students with special needs.

180 master trainers

As many as 180 master trainers of KITE have completed month-long AI training for the programme. Modules for the sessions are ready. Higher secondary and high school IT coordinators and Little KITEs masters will be given training initially.

Registration is open via ‘Training Management System’ link on www.kite.kerala.gov.in