Asean’s first AI robot teacher introduced

By THE NATION

 

 

Thai schoolchildren will soon benefit from artificial intelligence in the classroom, according to Suwit Mesinsee, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, who announced at the KidBright Developer Conference 2019 (KDC19) on Wednesday (November 27), that the “Coding at School Powered by KidBright” project has already delivered 200,000 AI teaching kits to high schools and colleges nationwide.

 

“The project is a collaboration between the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), and is designed to teach coding and programming to students to familiarise them with artificial intelligence technology,” he said. “The project also further expands the ‘Coding at School for Teacher’ or ‘KruKid Contest’ initiative which aims to boost teachers’ abilities in teaching coding and AI related topics.”

 

 

The ‘KidBright AIBot’, Asean’s first robot that combines the teaching of block coding and AI technology, was also introduced at the conference. “This robot is the first step towards the Ministry’s policy to promote Thailand as an AI nation,” he said. “Simplifying the AI subjects to improve students’ understanding and visualization will help boost efficiency in producing personnel equipped with skills in AI technology, as well as creating a platform for AI entrepreneurs to develop their products with added economic value and variety of applications.”

 

NSTDA president Narong Sirilertworakul added that the KidBright project is having a positive effect on several industrial sectors. “In 2019 the project stimulated the manufacturing of AI circuit boards with more than 10,000 components, and has generated products for AI teaching kits such as IKB-1, GoGo Bright and KB-IDE,” he said. “Two business organisations, namely Innovative Experiment and Thai Dot Com already applied to use KidBright boards for commercial use.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30378847

 

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That shouldn't be the "first step"

 

The place is awash with these and yet they are still lousy at English:

 

Their first step is always ordering a load of expensive gear from someones brother in law.

 

The first step is not investing in "stuff".

 

The first step is investing in people.

 

Doesn't anyones BIL have a credible teacher training/upskilling business?

 

(I think I might already know the answer to that question)

 

 

 

 

 

Might as well be artificial intelligence; everything else is "artificial".

Gosh when they said 1st A.I. robot teacher I had pictured her looking more like this teacher -

skip to 2:50 for the goods

 

 

Goodness theyre  just soooooooooooooooooooooo progressive

I suppose artificial intelligence is better than the current no intelligence.

Are all Thai state schools hard wired to take advantage of new hi-tech teaching tools, or do they use wi-fi?

 

This matters, as scientific and medical research shows children are far more vulnerable than are adults to the numerous health risks linked to EMF radiation from wi-fi systems, not least the imminent roll-out of 5G.

 

After scrutinising the evidence, the European Union is mulling a ban on the use of mobile phones and WiFi networks in schools and kindergartens across member states as "an act of prevention and protection for children".

 

Thailand, too, should invoke the precautionary principle, use some of its bloated education budget to hardwire all state schools and insist the private education sector follows suit.

555 I thought this was going to be about a truly great leap forward in education....but it's just more of the same.   Anyone remember the plan to have a laptop in front of every student a few years ago....look how well that worked out! 

No need to introduce them in Thailand, as teachers here, already, act like robots, using, exclusively, rote-learnig and citation from books.