At The G20 Meeting, A Tablet Will Be Used To Help With Paperless Exams, And A Reading App For Kids That Uses AI Will Be On Show

An end-to-end framework for seamless machine translation of documents, a demonstration of the “Bharatiya Gandhasastra,” a tablet to help with paperless exams, and an app to help kids learn to read on their own with real-time help are some of the highlights of an exhibition held here in conjunction with a G20 meeting.

Annapurna Devi, the Union Minister of State for Education, opened the show on Saturday. It will be up until June 22.

As part of the fourth meeting of the G20 Education Working Group, a multimedia exhibition is being held to show best practises in education, basic literacy and numeracy, digital projects, research, and skill development.

Google, UNICEF, the National Skill Development Corporation, the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the National Book Trust, the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Division under the Education Ministry, the National Book Trust, start-ups, and state governments were among the more than 100 exhibitors at the exhibition.

The IKS cell is showing off the country’s rich cultural history through many demonstrations. One of these is called “Bharatiya Gandhasastra,” and it involves making traditional perfumes and games like “Rajju-Sarpa” and “Bagh-Bakari” with your own hands.

An official from the IKS cell of the Ministry of Education said, “These games have deep cultural roots and can teach us a lot about how people in India used to play games.”

At the show, there is also a display of the “UDAAN” project from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay. This project is an end-to-end framework for seamless machine translation of documents.

“It uses cutting-edge technologies like optical character recognition, lexical resources, data-efficient learning, and an end-to-end post-editing platform built on machine learning with a human in the loop.

An official said, “The project has gotten a lot of attention and is used by many groups, like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), to quickly translate hundreds of textbooks into many Indian languages.”

Sesame Workshop is a non-profit company that works to teach children in low-resource areas. At its stall, the well-known characters “Chamki” and “Elmo” greet visitors.

“At the stall, there are storytelling workshops, STEM-based projects, quizzes, workshops on environmentally sustainable practises, floor games, digital games, puzzles, emotion cubes, and many more. A representative said, “The focus is on FLN (foundational literacy and numeracy) activities.”

The “DigiTaal” computer is being shown by Littlemore Innovation Labs.

“This well-thought-out exam device can be used instead of paper for all kinds of important tests. DigiTaal has successfully given over five million exams, and students have successfully used our suite by writing over 75 million answer pages on our proprietary tablet. We have more than 50 schools in India that use our product, an official said.

UNICEF is showing off its programme solutions that are being used in 10 countries around the world to help children learn the basics. Also on show are two global technical resources that UNICEF made to help countries build their own programmes for basic learning.

The resources are the “FLN Hub,” an online portal that gives advice on how to improve an education system’s ability to help children learn the basics, and the “ECE Accelerator Analysis and Planning Toolkit,” a global toolkit that helps include and improve early childhood education in the planning processes for the education sector.

The CBSE has shown the best practises for digital projects, skill modules, and the future of work. These are examples of innovation and collaboration between industry and education. The CBSE will also show how it has contributed to driving skill development in India and how committed it is to doing so.

Google’s Read Along (it used to be called Bolo), a free AI- and speech-based app that helps kids ages 5 to 11 learn to read on their own with real-time help, is also a big draw at the Savitribai Phule Pune University show.

The main topic of the fourth G20 Education Working Group meeting is “ensuring foundational literacy and numeracy, especially in the context of blended learning.” The meeting will start with a number of seminars, displays, and trips to historic sites. On June 22, the Education Ministerial Meeting will be the final event.

The G20 Education Working Group met for the first time in Chennai in January. The second time was in Amritsar in March, and the third time was in Bhubaneswar in April.