Shiksha Copilot, an AI-powered digital assistant, is aimed at enhancing learning outcomes and empowering teachers to develop inclusive and personalized teaching resources.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has powered almost every industry, including education. It allows educational institutions and educators to teach in an interactive way beyond traditional learning. In order to enhance learning outcomes and empower teachers to create inclusive and personalized teaching resources, Karnataka School Education and Literacy introduced Shiksha Copilot, an AI-powered digital assistant.
A collaboration between the Sikshana Foundation and Microsoft Research India, Shiksha Copilot is an AI research project. The project’s goals are to enhance learning outcomes and provide educators with the tools they need to design thorough, individualized lesson plans and learning experiences based on the local curriculum, language, and context.
Know About Shiksha Copilot
Shiksha Copilot is a part of Project VeLLM, a platform developed by Microsoft Research India to create specialized generative AI copilots that individuals of diverse backgrounds, including teachers, farmers, and small business owners, can use.
The AI-powered digital assistant is focused on empowering teachers to develop individualized, high-quality content while reducing the time required to do so, hence addressing their demands, said Madhu Bangarappa, Minister of School Education and Literacy.
“It will also support 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 chatbot for teachers for self-learning and interactive content generation,” the minister said.
Support and Availability
Students in Classes 5 to 10 can use the AI digital assistant, covering topics such as science, math, social science, and English in both Kannada and English mediums.
The Shiksha Copilot reportedly is integrated with the learning objectives and curriculum of the school and is based on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. Texts from textbooks, including how the content is organized, are ingested by Azure Cognitive Service. As the copilot is multimodal, it may incorporate words, photos, and videos. It can also pull videos from the internet that are accessible to the general public.
Initially, the project supports 1,000 teachers from government schools in all Karnataka urban and rural education districts. Later, the project will be extended across the State, the Minister said.
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