Telangana: AI to aid Govt schools in formative assessments

Hyderabad: Select Government school complexes (a cluster of high school, middle and primary schools) in the State may soon get to use some artificial intelligence based tools that will automate a few of the time and resources consuming processes like formative assessments, marking attendance, logging mid-day meals data among others. They will even be put to use to teach English and later other languages too. These artificial intelligence-based tools will be implemented in select school complexes in Moinabad as a pilot project through the Prof Raj Centre at IIIT-H, which is working to create artificial technologies and technology solutions for the grassroots. A team from the IIIT-H had initial meetings with select school complex head masters, resource persons and officials of the Education Department to understand problems at the grass-root level. "We plan to meet the concerned people once again and make specific plans for the technology interventions possible. We want to keep the technologies ready for the coming academic year. These will be short term projects of three to six months that aim to address the issues at the earliest," said Ramesh Loganathan, Co-Innvation Professor at IIIT-H.