School education department holds workshop on AI training for teachers
The School Education Department in Chennai has launched an AI-training workshop for government school teachers to improve teaching efficiency. Teachers are learning to use AI tools for lesson planning, generating test questions, and creating visual aids.
Why it matters
Integrating AI into public education systems represents a significant shift in pedagogical methods and teacher training requirements.
In an effort to optimise teaching duties, the School Education department conducted an AI-training workshop for teachers in Chennai on Wednesday.
The training programme was conducted for 81 postgraduate teachers of Class XI and XII from government and corporation schools in Chennai in the first phase. “As the academic year progresses, the programme will be expanded and will also include teachers of Class IX and X too,” said an official from the School Education Department.
Under the workshop, teachers learnt how to use various AI platforms with prompt engineering, gemini notebook, adobe express, Gimkit, and physics AI tools.
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