Artificial Intelligence: The Road Ahead

The point has come where we begin to think if there actually is an area where artificial intelligence cannot be useful. It has started to change our life tremendously while proving to be extremely useful and beneficial for us. With the emergence of AI, automation has become the buzz word. Opportunity, safety and security are the slice of the bigger benefit, AI has come to offer. Automation in the educational sector started on a good note. Concepts like e Learning, and internet created the first ripple in the transformation of the educational sector. Virtual learning is now a trend and a biggest help in shaping how we will in future see and perceive education. Most of all, it will effectively bridge the gap between classroom and e Learning programs. Take a look at the many wonders it will bring about in K 12 education. 

Why AI? 

The smallest question ever, but a bigger answer is here. Intelligent automation is the right new buzz word. It is a mix of automation and artificial intelligence that will intelligently sense and generate huge amounts of data and other such information. They will also automate the entire workflow, thus learning and thereby adapting on the long run. 

Many best schools in Bangalore are starting to explore the possibilities of employing AI to education. See what they offer. 

Automation of grading system: 

It is now actually possible for teachers to automate grading for the multiple choices and fill in the blanks. Soon, essay grading automation will come up that will assist the teachers in the grading process, thereby allowing them more time for classroom teaching and training. 

The new teacher:  

It can be your new tutor. With the many tools AI has, it can now be your new tutor to help students learn better. Although they are yet to think as creative and unique as the teachers, it sure is a possibility in the near future. 

Feedback generation:  

Some schools have already employed AI to give feedback's to the students, that will precisely focus on the performance of the students and alert the teacher where the students need attention. They will also be used to give feedback to the educators.

Making learning easier:  

Part and parcel of every learning strategy is the trial and error learning. The very term ‘failing’ is scary for the students and is a biggest turn off for them. Being put on spot in front of the class and peers is not an effective or a desirable solution. AI will foster a judgement free space of learning from the trial and error methodology adopted by it. AI itself will grow in such a fashion and hence will offer students some of the simplest and finest way to learn through experience. 

The game changer

AI is truly a game changer. Starting from curriculum designing to helping students perform better, scientists are trying to build an effective solution to the many needed changes in the educational sector. It is not very difficult to predict where AI can take us in the future. One look its present capabilities and applications is enough to feel safe about the changes it can bring to the educational sector.

Peer Pressure: The dark side

Peer pressure is dangerously a true phenomenon that is prevalent. Most of the times, we believe peer pressure enable success. While that may be true in many cases, it need not be the same in most cases. Walking into a foreign land with peer pressure can be a nightmare for many of us. ‘You are known by the company you keep’ works for the most of us. They can mold you, or sometimes even disintegrate you, leaving you shattered. 

What we fail to do is to make the peer pressure work in our favor. Once you know that, peer pressure negatively, will cease to exist. 

The peer influence

Often, psychologists, academicians and even students have discussed how peers have had huge influences on each other’s attitude, ideas and even personal life. Realistically thinking, do these peer pressures actually exist? Yes, they do! For instance, in school the toppers have an immediate effect on the low graders, making them compelled to drift up and out perform them. The pressure is not direct, but it is perceived. These toppers don’t really have to say or do anything, but their effect will make the others take an effort to reach there. What we don’t understand is how good is this ‘effort’.

Instances of direct peer pressure also are seen. How many times have the students been compelled to change their decision or to accept a particular decision of their friend’s? Haven’t we heard of how the students are bullied and cornered to accept their point of view? Instances like these contribute a lot to building a negative impact upon the students themselves. 

It starts at home

Peer pressure is not always from a foreign land. Most often, it is from our own classrooms where children are from diverse background. Pressure then becomes diverse, energetic and highly impactful. This web of characteristics of pressure will have a huge impact in learning among the many students, who are not outspoken, because, pressure hits them the first. They are often bullied into accepting what others say, without leaving them a chance to speak. This way, peer pressure will undermine and impair success of the students with no mercy. Culture shock is a not new in an India, that has diverse set of beliefs and faith. A whole lot of this diversity also contributes to peer pressure, especially when you live in a foreign land. 

The good side of peer pressure

Top Schools in Bangalore, have seen and analyzed how this pressure can be transformed to something good. Learning to say ‘no’ is the first step forward. You don’t have to be the ‘cool kid’ in the block by confirming to standards and practices that makes you uncomfortable. People tend to respect those with assertive personality and saying a ‘no’ when needed will set a bar. 

Peer pressure in no way should make you uncomfortable. If you intend to change, make sure it is voluntary and has some academic and personal benefits for you. It is okay not to ‘fit in’.

The strong impediment to growth comes from unhealthy groups, that does not respect the individual’s stance. If you think you are often being pressured to accept something, it is time you push yourself out of the group.  

Peer pressure is a two-way path. As much as you are being influenced by others, others are being influenced by you too. What is important is to educate the children to take it in the right spirit to ensure you only imbibe the positive attitude.

Importance of Parent-Teacher collaboration" by Shomie Das

A Visionary and architect of A distinct methodology of learning Mr. Shomie Das runs and thus continues to make contributions that aim at promoting a unique child centered concept driven by his passion for teaching.

Mr. Shomie Das thus has envisioned a school environment that places high value of the child and it courage's all aspects of learning he believes in building schools here the focus and purpose of all infrastructure is primarily on the child currently I am working as a person who builds schools so i retired in 1996 and ever since then I've been building schools for various promoters and it was this? Oakridge that took my fancy and i have been involved with the Oakridge ever since the turn of the century where a lot of the Idea that I have had been put, Into practice giant centricity can't be built Into a school it is the leadership of the school that will provide the environment for child centricity for being child centered the School, Itself will be full of brick and mortar and classrooms and little wooden furniture and furniture and all sorts of things and none of that actually gives the child any importance what gives the importance is the way the leadership looks at the child and give the child importance in all aspects of learning including when they are in sitting in a classroom when they are actually learning a musical instrument or when they are going on a trek it's the child that becomes the important being in that process these principals shape a student to be emotionally and Intellectually independent He Kind and lives The Motto of Oakridge International School Learning the treasure within often referred to as the man who saw tomorrow shall be thus truly is an educationist that students teachers and educators have a lot to learn from you