How schools and colleges are turning AI into an ally in classrooms

On a sunny January morning, uniformed kids from preschoolers to high schoolers from around 50 schools in Mumbai streamed into St Willibrord High School in Nalasopara, making their way into classrooms that had transformed into AI wonderlands. Instead of the usual textbooks and whiteboards, they were greeted by screens and questions such as ‘How do self-driving cars use AI to navigate through traffic?’ or ‘How is AI impacting jobs?’
One of the hotspots was the ‘ChatGPT room’ where students as well as parents and teachers tried their hand at prompt crafting to tackle everyday scenarios using ChatGPT — whether it was a doctor trying to organise a medics’ roster, a teacher struggling with a speech for a school event, a parent stuck on scripting for a cooking channel on YouTube, or gamifying a subject for better understanding.