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What is Artificial Intelligence? What can it do? What can it not do? The Adhyayan’s Community of Practice organized a webinar on the 11th of September, 2021 on a rather interesting topic: Artificial Intelligence. The session began with the speaker Ms. Jayshree Iyer introducing the panelist Dr. Sarabjot Singh Anand. During the course of the introduction, Jayshree put forth a quite simple yet thoughtful question forward to all the attendees – What comes to your mind when you hear the term Artificial Intelligence? The most frequent answers were: robotics or robots, automatic, ethics, not human intelligence, and anything you understandRead More

Second part 25th Sept 2021  – The Teaching & Learning of Artificial Intelligence – Through the lens of students and educators. In continuation to the First part 11th Sep 2021 – What is Artificial Intelligence? Why is it so important?  Time: 4:30pm-6:00pmPanelists Kavya Majumdar, Student learning coding at  ’Coding and More’Manika Jhaveri, Student learning coding at  ’Coding and More’Ishita, Educator at ’Coding and More’Tanvi, Educator at ’Coding and More’Supriya Bhuwalka, CEO of ’Coding and More’ Host Ms. Jayshree Iyer  Jayshree briefly summarized the previous session with Dr Sarabjot Singh on what is artificial intelligence, what does it do and what isRead More

Panelists Dr. Sarabjot Singh Anand HOST Ms. Jayshree Iyer Artificial intelligence[AI] at the school level is quite important as per NEP2020 and it is widely used in daily life like the Aarogya Setu app, Alexa, face recognition as phone passwords etc. As Adhyayan addresses relevant education-related issues that may interest educators, today’s topic was also chosen to bring information and some food for thought for the intellectual minds who chose to attend such meaningful discourses on Saturday afternoons. Introducing the guest, Jayshree informed all present that Dr Sarabjot Singh Anand has been involved in the field of machine learning sinceRead More

Entitlement of Teachers to Professional Development- Part 3  Moderator:   Nita Luthria Row – Resource person for workshop for Adhyayan,  panelist for many sessions, PYP and Junior school head in Bombay International school. Panelists: Reena Singh – Alumnus of Loreto College, Ex-Principal GD Goenka Rajnagar, Kolkata, Master trainer CBSE schools in Rajasthan, Principal Khaitan School, NOIDA Thomas Remigius – School leader with 22 years experience at senior management in schools in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka Host: Jayshree Iyer The session took off with Jayshree briefly summarizing the takeaway from the last two sessions that were on the professional development journeyRead More

    Panelists Parveen Shaikh- Principal Somaiya school, Mumbai Ranjana Gupta-CPD in charge of Don Bosco School, Mumbai, Trainer on different aspects of CPD associated with Adhyayan. Host  Jayshree Iyer Before COVID 19 only 3% of schools had a teacher in charge for continuous professional development of teachers while in 19% of schools this job has to be taken up by the principal only. The rest of them have no one responsible for them. Jayshree began the session unraveling these facts about Indian schools unknown to most of us.  Does it raise questions like whether  CPD was taken seriously byRead More