With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) textbook of Class VII, over 4 lakh students in Kerala are set to get familiar with AI in the ensuing academic year.

• One of the activities in the ‘Computer Vision’ chapter will involve students creating their own AI programme that can recognize human facial expressions.
• This programme will be able to identify up to seven different emotions on a person’s face.
• “It is the first time in India that all students in a class are getting an opportunity to learn AI uniformly”, said K Anvar Sadath who is the Chairman of ICT Textbook Committee and the CEO of KITE.
• The ‘PictoBlox’ package, along with ‘Scratch’ software that teaches visual programming, has been introduced in the textbooks to enable students to practice programming, AI, robotics, etc. Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the technology arm of the general education department, will make available all the essential software for this in the laptops deployed in schools.