Goverment Arts College, Vallabhipur organised Two-Day National seminar on AI and Education: Opportunity, Challenges and Innovation. I feel privileged to have been a part of this thought-provoking seminar.
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The keynote address by Prof.(Dr) Dilip Barad Sir, highlighted the fundamental aspect of accessing any information that requires human experience. For that, we have to document futuristic requirements. Sir also highlighted the previous year's Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, 'Brain Rot' that we have to shift or filter our ideas while using AI. Sir also highlighted a very fundamental concern that whether should we use technology or not is not a debatable topic now. Sir also quoted and discussed Thomas Friedman, Plato, Alvin Toffler, and Noam Chomsky. Sir also highlighted the UN's SDG goal 4 on 'Equitable Quality Education'
The first plenary session was by Prof (Dr) Nigam Dave, sir. He highlighted Ethics and AI and its implications in education. Sir used the metaphor of 'Eye of Hurricane' and anthropocentric concern as well. Sir mentioned The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by futurist Ray Kurzweil and some AI tools like Jill Watson (Georgia Tech), MATHia, Lola, Squirrel AI, Stepwise AI, etc. Sir also shed light on 'AI Hallucination' and AI Bluff and HCPs 2.0.
Second plenary session led by Dr. Rakesh Damir sir, who, given his expertise on introducing various AI tools, talked about 'Digital Darwinism', how AI and teachers will coexist, prompt engineering, Android and Apple intelligence, and many more AI tools that will be of great help in academia.
Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Jivani Sir led the third plenary session on the second day, which focused on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence. Sir suggested utilizing AI as "Intellectual Labor." Also, Sir emphasized everyday tools like Microsoft 365 (for online usage, office.com) and prompt engineering (five stages: Clarity, Context, Precision, Role-Play, and Tone) and how using AI makes these easier. We create data, and the data includes facts and numbers. . Sir also highlighted the 'Internet of Things'. Sir provided us with a several AI platforms, including code.org, AI awaaz, AutoDraw, Gemini writer, and others, to access and process our creative work. Sir said that we must distinguish between feelings and logic and continue learning through the cycle of "learn, unlearn, relearn."
Overall, it was quite enriched seminar on AI and education had been a great experience of knowing the digital world especially AI's implications in education and how we can teach and learn better with artificial intelligence.
I am thrilled to share that I got third rank as a best research paper presenter. I am grateful to my supervisor Dr.Vishal Pandya sir, and the organizers of the college.
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