Schools give thumbs up to Artificial Intelligence, yoga from class 8, in a fix over educators

Ahmedabad | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

Summary:

Under the early childhood education subject, students will be prepared to teach children of nursery and Kindergarten classes through systems of child-centric education. Whereas the basic qualification of early childhood teachers is class 12 and a diploma in education. Schools in the city give thumbs up to the recent decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of introducing subjects like 'Artificial Intelligence', 'yoga' and 'early childhood education' from class 8 onwards terming it to be the need of the hour. While schools do not have specified teachers for AI, the board has committed to train those teachers. The circular by CBSE said, "An AI 'inspire module' of 12 hours will be introduced for class 8 students..