it it has changed so much in the past
decade everything is available to us in
a click of a button and it’s just not
available to us but it’s customized for
us so if you want to buy groceries you
go to a big basket and that will present
a smart basket which will pre-fill all
the items that you might wanna buy if
you want to buy electronics you go to
Amazon and you buy your electronics and
it’ll also tell you what else you might
you know find love you go to Mijares
matrimony to find love you wanna make
love you want to get out of love this
breakup helpline com you’re 21 you might
not need it right now but yeah it
the thing is everything is available to
us at a click of a button and it’s just
not available to us it’s custom
presented to us right
take tinder for example it knows what
kind of people you’re gonna right swipe
so it fills you know your your screen
with all those people who you might want
to write swipe I I can see here that the
male to female ratio is minus 2/5 and
hence why his eyes are glowing as I talk
of tinder right now it’s crazy today the
cabs know where to come and pick us up
from the channels know what to show it’s
crazy right everything is available to
us and it’s custom-made for us
personalization that is the key every
sector has seen the advent of
personalization travel real-estate
hospitality all of these have seen the
advent of artificial intelligence to
customize the experience for us so that
we could enjoy the experience in a
really good vein even in education the
whole premise has been to customize or
is it let’s see so traditionally this
happens for the kids today under the age
of 18 they go to the school and the
teacher teaches them stuff now when the
teacher teaches and stuff she gives
homework and then the child supposed to
go to home and do the homework if he can
do it if he can’t then he turns to the
parents now normally it’s the mother who
has a child with you
and by the time he reaches their higher
classes like class 8 the mother also
says alright I’m not gonna do it so the
child all goes to the tuition center now
finally a lot of times the teacher in
the tuition center is the same teacher
who’s in the classroom so what’s the
difference the difference is the number
of students so now in tuition the number
of students is less as compared to the
classroom so it enables or empowers a
teacher to personalize the delivery so
their education also personalized or it
aced personalization long long time ago
just that in a very ridiculous and
redundant format I’ve been trying to dig
deeper into pedagogy and trying to
understand how concept delivery works so
we tried looking at various different
ways with which concept delivery works
in schools and education sector as such
we looked at direct instruction we
looked at usage of animations in the
classroom we also looked at the reward
system and a bunch of other things in
that area and we realized that our
schools actually perform the worst in
all these areas so take direct
instruction for example that’s how all
of us were educated right so the teacher
would come to us in the classroom and
she’ll teach us the concept and she
would then quizzes on that particular
concept to figure out if you’ve
understood or not right
so suppose the concept was of tides so
the teacher would teach her that the
tides happen because of the attraction
forces by the moon on the water bodies
on the earth and if you wrote the same
thing in the exam you’d pass so we
thought why not ask the people who had
graduated out of school ten years back
and figure out if they still remember
some part of the concept they learned in
the classroom now
it was tides it was the time for high
tides in Bombay we went to the sea phase
which is called Bandstand in Mumbai and
we asked them how do tides happen now
the thing is there a lot of couples
there so they denied answering any of
the questions so we did get some of the
people who are not in couple and we
asked them how do tides happen I’m going
to show you a snippet of that particular
video funny video have a look till here
this tide and I guess what happens
because of the gravitational force of
the moon okay tell me one thing see it’s
raining everywhere right in a track and
overflow
and everything there were a lot of range
the only thing it could be because the
rains have filled the sea so much that
the level in the sea has risen up cannot
take it anymore all of it is coming
towards the land the sea cannot take it
anymore do you think so the sea cannot
take it anymore the capacity you cannot
go beyond it you have to stay within
your limits this all is happening
because of the pollution population all
of it so everywhere we are the cause of
it I would say we are causing types I
guess so I mean that’s what our
education system did right and when it
was not personalized now by the way this
is an eight minute long video and if you
see the video completely the same girl
who said this he cannot take it anymore
or you know we are the reason why tides
happen is the same girl who figures out
how tides really happen and that could
happen because we asked her the
questions that could clear her
misconceptions because we could
personalize the delivery for her
she went from there to here in 8 minutes
now personalization is a damn powerful
I mean I am a lot of you know kukuli is
so you know who an especial Meijer and
since most of you are engineers you know
Marty surmise but no that’s not how you
personalize so what did we do
personalized we flipped it what did we
flip we took the exact same process
which the education system follows today
and we flipped it so traditionally what
happens is you know you remember the
tuition story so why does a child go to
tuition because he has homework to do
and that’s exactly where he needs
assistance so what if we took the
homework the so-called homework to the
class because he has access to the
teacher where he could take the
assistance and what the normal classroom
was doing or the normal teacher was
doing in the classroom was a one-way
delivery and what if we took that to
whom because it was just one way
delivery so that’s what we did we
flipped the classroom so now the student
will actually watch a part of the
concept before going to the class while
he was the concept at home our software
picked up a lot of user behavior data to
figure out where were the misconceptions
in the students head and when the
student went to the class the teacher
could now customize the delivery based
on what the students needed in the class
so there we made the education more
personalized flipping the classroom and
analyzing the cognitive behavior in the
class could do wonders for our kids so
in 2014 when Prime Minister Modi took
charge they came up with this noble idea
of empowering the underprivileged girls
children to write IIT je now they
approached us in September 2014 to
create the complete content in flipped
mechanism for these kids and it sounded
very noble till they told us that we had
only one month to create the complete
content for itj and they wanted these
underprivileged girls children to write
IIT J this year which meant that they
had only 5 months to prepare for itj now
this sounded scary but anyway being you
know being able to create a lot of
content before in flips format and this
being a noble cause we got on it in two
days of time we recruited 120 students
from IT daily and BITS Pilani created
five Studios which ran parallel e for
24/7 and within three weeks of time we
created 200 hours of content which was
custom made for these kids which then
used in flipped format now these know it
then the project was called run and this
was inaugurated on Children’s Day in
14 and 300 students had registered for
300 underprivileged students had
registered for Iran they wrote itj in
April 2015 and when the results came out
it was nothing short of inspirational
out of 300 underprivileged girls
children who had registered for Iran 143
cleared itj image 143 out of 300 that’s
a huge number that’s the power of
personalization and it could do wonders
for our kids there are 350 million
learners in the country
85% students drop out during secondary
education because they do not see any
words in the education they get access
and good quality education are the two
major problems in the education sector
in our country and we’ve done enough of
artificial intelligence helping us
choose the kind of food we eat and the
kind of dresses we wear or the kind of
entertainment we get but I think it’s
high time we used a I to customize and
create good quality content for our kids
with a socially sensitive generation
like yours I’m pretty hopeful that the
next decade is going to see a lot of AI
being used to build capabilities in
education and hopefully this is not how
your children this class would look like thanks