Kbot -Ensure Data Driven Educational Decisions using Artificial Intelligence

Introduction :

The Knowledgebot (aka Kbot) project aims to work towards breaking the cycle of poverty through international standard education to the underprivileged Government school children’s of Karnataka. It equip children of the state with specified knowledge, skills and values to enable them to become productive, socially responsible citizens and to achieve excellence in whatever they do.

We use Mobile technology and Artificial intelligence to solve some of the pedagogic issues.  The Artificial intelligence and education should go hand in hand and the new techniques used to ensure that all students attain their ultimate academic success. 

We use data mining and analysis to consolidate the information to provide the big picture of trends, issues and patterns for higher education leadership teams that can be used to evaluate and streamline processes, create efficiencies, and improve the overall student experience.

A large scale effort to create and share  educational content in Kannada, English and  other languages, across schools, must be put in place through the deployment of technology.

The short term goal of this project is to build the on prim or cloud tool which will:

1. Implement Artificial intelligence enabled learning app for conceptual, personalized learning and monitoring student progress and improvement such as solving Reading crisis and missing class management

• Class/examination room evaluation and Body Language and behavior Analysis of student’s/teacher’s by using Deep learning techniques using CC TV camera output.

• Automation of Administrative Duties to overcome the Pedagogical issues raised by Teacher’s Chronic Absenteeism.

We build mobile app to Manage Attendance, digital year plan, action plans and lesson planner, mark card entry etc

• Automatic identification of Early Student Drop out.
• Automatic Missed classes detection and course completion strategies for absent students.

• The Deviations detection system automatically identify the deviation  from year plan, action plans and lesson planner etc

• Offer full role-based communication functionality, including integrated messaging and notification tools( Communication tools for all but it has role based access )

• Establish better collaboration between parents , teachers , SDMC, Resource persons CRP,BRP,ECO, DIET and other higher management personals(Concerned MLA of the education block, State Education Minister’s office ,BEO,DDPI, etc) .

• It provides insight on Schools that needs Visit and Virtual inspection based on the predefined rules set by consumer(BEO’s, BRP’s and CRP’s) of the insights.

1. 360 view of Students and Teachers.

1. It provides tool for better School Nurturing Program and   acquiring and retaining long-time donors.

1. It provides Open Resource System where in best TLM (Teaching and Learning Materials) were shared between teachers  and This tool also provides innovative  mechanism of managing links to the external Websites, Videos and study materials.( Subject wise Universal bookmarks)

1. Democratic engagement of communities to improve education.

1. It provides Donor management, communication and  Publicizing in social media.

1. Ease the  creation of new question paper and answer paper by implementing better clipboard utility with multiple buffers and the ability to copy, merge, split, and edit their contents  that an organization can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities.

1. Managing Physical Education &extracurricular activities and event Management.

In our endeavor, we are now running eight schools successfully throughout the country with around 1400 impoverished children. We aspire to establish a school in each of the 64 districts of Bangladesh to uproot illiteracy from our society through spreading the light of education in every nook and corner of our country.

Solution

This project will provide international standard “Free-of-Cost” education to the under privileged children. Through this project, we will help the children become skilled labors as they grow up bringing positive changes in their families and communities alleviating poverty.

Long-Term Impact

The objective of our project is creating educated and skilled human resources out of the under privileged children and making them capable to get involved in mainstream development. We aim to educate the disadvantages of children from every nook and corner of Karnataka by implementing above mentioned method in every district so that they can work for the betterment of the society and break the vicious cycle of poverty.

Details of the Project features :

Implement Artificial intelligence enabled learning app for conceptual, personalized learning and monitoring student progress and improvement such as solving Reading crisis and missing class management.

Conceptual learning is an educational method that centers on big-picture ideas and learning how to organize and categorize information.

It very much needs to monitor student in Schools so we can give them the help they need to succeed. While it is not humanly possible for a single teacher to pay attention to every student, schools must start looking at the use of technologies like artificial intelligence and chat bots who can become the helping hand to the teachers as well as students.

Our learning app ensures students to have access to quality education, imparted by seasoned professors and professionals on their finger tips.

These AI enabled tools tailor and personalize learning for each individual Student .It monitor and rate the student’s daily performance and alerts counselors, teachers and advisors about struggling students.

Reading crisis:

The several researches on education founds that the reading crisis is core issue in Primary school and it introduce lot of difficulties in education system regardless of improved Pedagogic Strategies.

Most students in government schools struggle to read lower grade level textbooks and it has serious consequences impacting students’ ability to achieve learning objectives across a range of subjects and to undertake higher education.

Our Text to Speech AI model will

• Read out the text book by underling/selecting word and sentences.
• We create game that ask the student  to
• Pronounce the word to get the earning points(Speech  to text AI Model
• Dictate the sentences to get the earning points
• crosswords ,  rhyming words, pick the correct word and wrong word out(odd man out) etc

1. Class/examination room evaluation and body language and behavior analysis of student’s/teacher’s by using Deep learning techniques using CC TV camera output .

In Current Days, the organization has failed to achieve its strategic goals by developing employees. The main reason is that it is very hard to interpret hidden emotions of the employees.

The emotions in the workplace play a large role in how an entire organization communicates within itself and to the outside world.

The consequences of emotional states in the workplace, both behaviour and attitudes, have substantial significance for individuals, groups, and society

Teachers play the most important role in schools and hence, their class room behaviour should be studied .

The below factors needs to studied well 

Organizational Skills (Teaching materials used in class and time management).

Lack of Content Knowledge.

Teacher’s patience and tolerance,

Lack of Professionalism.

Lack of Commitment.

The disruptive behaviours of the student interfere with the teacher’s ability to teach effectively. The behaviours require large amounts of the teacher’s time and attention. The teacher must stop the lesson or discussion to address the behaviour and this takes away from the valuable time needed to instruct the rest of the class. So this behaviours needs to be studied.

Another issue to be handled is examination malpractice.

To effectively study all such behaviour ,We use Convolutional Neural Network(Deep learning tech) to classify the image into different categories of emotions, body language, facial expressions. This model will provide insight into our own feelings and the feelings of others.

• Automation of Administrative Duties to overcome the Pedagogical issues raised by Teacher’s Chronic Absenteeism.

Stressful schools aren’t healthy for anyone. Teachers need adequate resources and support in their jobs in order to battle burnout and alleviate stress in the classroom.  The main cause of concern is non-teaching jobs .The additional burdens imposed by the administration impede teacher’s regular availability in the classroom and create an ad hoc teaching environment.

Some of the Administrative duties resulted in Teacher’s Chronic Absenteeism are:

 1> Census surveys.

 2 > Election duty.

(Can’t be addressed in short term. Gradual KT to other non teaching staff and Higher education staff)

3> Registration/enrolment of Childs of School

4>Yearly planning, Action planning, Notes of lesson

5> Daily attendance entry in attendance Register

6> Monthly attendance entry in attendance Register

We build mobile app to

1>Manage Attendance, so that these data  can be used in

         a>”Early Student Drop out identification and Warning System”.

         b> Missed classes detection and course         completion strategies

              for absent student .

2> Manage digital year plan ,where in teachers can select  pre-defined plan items and create their own “Year Plan” and Record the progress in timely manner . Any deviation from the plan will be notified with red alert and  action items will be assigned respective person.

3>Manage digital action plans where in teachers can select  pre-defined action plan items for student performance  and create their own “action Plan” and adhere to plan through the year And deviation from the plan will be notified with red alert and  action items will be assigned to  respective person.

4>Manage digital notes of lesson(lesson planner) where in teachers can select pre-defined notes of lesson items for daily schedule and ;create their own “notes of lesson”.

The teachers should selects next day’s lesson planner and tool will through some challenges/quiz to the teachers to evaluate the skill and content.

This Evaluation Systems is a central to ensuring quality teaching and does meaningful evaluation to benefit both teachers and students. It provides detailed answer for wrongly answered questions.

Selecting the next day’s lesson planner by teachers also helps in “Missed classes detection and course completion strategies

And deviation from the plan will be notified with red alert and  action items will be assigned to  respective person.

• Early Student Drop out identification and warning System:

Despite all improvements by Karnataka and Indian government , keeping children in school is still an issue and dropout rates continue to be high. Our tool will try to prevent drop out of students .

Out  Early Student Drop out identification and warning System uses below indicators :

• Absenteeism.
  • Academic performance,
  • Behavioral ( No of  complaints to HM Suspension )
  • Family circumstances
  • Living Standards (House condition and basic needs, foster)
  • Bullying and level of acceptance by teachers , peers
  • Socio economic status

Our tools provides below features  :

1. Auto counseling (Parent and child ) about Indictors and record the reason for bad indicators and asses the student needs.

• The higher Management such as DDPI ,BEO, BRP,CRP set the rule based data /insight collection of School, cluster and block and making decisions to achieve common goals

• It alerts counselors, teachers and advisors about struggling students. Teacher, HM and SDMC , NGO’s can use this data/insights  to guide thriving students toward their goals and get at-risk students back on track

• Automatic Missed classes detection and course completion strategies for absent students.

The  absent students concerned about what he or she missed and But teachers busy with completing scheduled classes and non teaching activities .sometimes teacher are not entertain the inquiry from an absent student . This leads

to poor performance by the student  and school

As we discussed above (in point 3), our tool helps in attendance and lesson planner management  and these

data can be used to identify what content needs to be

delivered  to absent student and our learning app use this

data and implements the  course completion strategies of absent students.

• The Deviations detection system automatically identify the deviation  from year plan, action plans and lesson planner etc.

• Establish better collaboration and communication between parents , teachers , SDMC, Resource persons CRP,BRP,ECO, DIET and other higher management personals(Concerned MLA of the education block, State Education Minister’s office ,BEO,DDPI, etc) .

We Offer full role-based communication functionality, including integrated messaging and notification tools( Communication tools for all but it has role based access )

Improved Communication and Virtual Inspections.

The app provides efficient way to communicate Government orders, policies andhigher Management decisions. It deliver the right information/insights at the right time to BEO’s, BRP’s and CRP’s and higher officials of public instruction (PI) department.

It provides insight on Schools that needs Visit and Virtual inspection based on the predefined rules set by consumer(BEO’s, BRP’s and CRP’s) of the insights

It provides Virtual Inspections ,School document verification and facility( mid day meals , toilets ) and Teacher availability for BEO’s, BRP’s and CRP’s to conduct surprise inspections from anywhere.

It provides insight on in-service teacher training

and meeting Managements

Improved Communication between student and teachers.

1> Managing leaves and vacations.

 2> Question and answering bot.

 3>Automatic morning missed calls and Voice message to the parent. Currently Teacher has to wake up early and give missed calls to parent to make student to wakeup & study. It is extra burden to the teachers.

Improved Communication between Parent and teachers:

This Tool will  provide

  1> 360 view of child and Teachers.

  2> Parents can monitor and review the child’s progress  provide feedback to the system.   

  3> Tool will create action item against teachers to solve reported issues.

  4> AI consider parents feedback also to identify the pedagogic issues associated with teacher, school, cluster or Block and Come up with insights

• We provides tool for better School Nurturing Program and   better system for acquiring and retaining long-time donors.

• The main issue with current “School Nurturing Program” is” acquiring and retaining long-time donors”  it is mainly due to below characteristics 

• it will not proactively provide any information of needy students , school, cluster, blocks requirements .Each School has its own unique requirements and the localities and alumni wants to know the requirements of their former schools. It is very much need to streamline the process of linking up the school and nurturers.

• Donors are receive not receiving a timely, meaningful noble appreciation and acknowledgement. Not appreciating and acknowledging through social media.

• Donor friendly payment gateway and immediate documentation( tax certificates )are other two aspects.

Our tool supports:

1> Build communities including alumni, retired   teachers, localities, SDM’s associated with school

2> Allow school to manage their needs and post them Social media.

3>Automatically showcase school Donors in Social media by taking prior permission of donors and encourage donors to share the post with their networks .

4> Create Video on  impact of the donation made and tag the donor in social media

1. Open Resource System :

We have huge knowledge assets, that indicates that we are good at knowledge creation .But unfortunately we are rarely using them mainly because we doesn’t know where it exists even if we find the location ,we doesn’t  know the current owner and other knowledge assets that are in close relation with  specified knowledge asset.

Main problem here is knowledge is dispersed and we are not maintaining “information about information”.

The deteriorating state of our educational system

is quite worrisome. The problem teachers and students encounter in our educational system include inadequate teaching and learning materials. Currently Teaching and Learning Materials(TLM) are  prepared by each individual teachers and quality differs resulted “Educational inequality“

Some teachers are well equipped and impact knowledge to their students, taking cognizance of information made available from both the internet, electronic and print media. They create TLM which made learning fun and easy

But Currently such TLM’s are not shared and reviewed and implemented in other school. Our system help Teacher to manage and share their TLM and Learning tools.  Resource personals to review TLM’s and identify the best

1. Teaching Techniques and Methodologies and Conceptual learning ideas.
2. Analogies, Examples and application type which makes learning engaging, fun and easy.

   3> Sharing across the org to adopt such Pedagogic Strategies, Methodologies, tools and teaching styles.

Subject wise Universal bookmarks :

This tool provides innovative mechanism of managing links to the external Websites, Videos and study materials. If any stakeholder finds good resources websites or videos can post the link and it will be part of “Subject wise Universal bookmark” once it is approved by resource personnel. So that anyone can access them from anywhere and study. It will help to build a rich academic resource with  ample  reference materials for the teachers

Sharing Old Question papers and Topper’s Answer sheet :

This tool provides mechanism

1>To upload old question papers.

2>To upload Topper’s answer papers.

3>Access old question papers and Topper’s answer papers

4>Provide easy way to teachers for preparing New Question papers by selecting questions from old question papers and Key Answers.

• Democratic engagement of communities to improve

  education.

It is impossible to achieve the dream of quality education for all children unless we engage in a shared vision with shared Planning and implementation  and shared accountability for access and success for each child.

The meaningful ,transparent and democratic engagement of communities needed uplift the education and  it has edge over all other strategies.

1. Educationist, Mentors, teachers and Retired officials    public instructions.
2.  Translate student into alumni
3.  Include all donors into the communities.
4.  Include Parents and Current and old SDMC members

They can give feedback on Education system and Involve in contribution of money, materials and crowd funding activity an

d  helping child by Teaching  through Video conference or recorded videos.

1. Ease the  creation of new question paper and answer paper by implementing better clipboard utility with multiple buffers and the ability to copy, merge, split, and edit their contents  that an organization can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities.

1.  Managing Physical Education &  extracurricular activities.

Tool provides innovative  mechanism of Manage extra-curricular activities and event managements and invitations

It allow the Physical instructor to record each students sports performance and allow them  access overall performance their student with other school.

The tool will give ranks to the students based on  the data entered and school/block/state level sport meet. The feedback mechanism provide indicator like area of improvement and strategies.

Revenue Model

Technobot Software Solution will adopt the below methods to generate the revenue from app development.

• Technobot uses Micro service architecture and it develop the API’s and these API services can be rendered by any other institutes outside Karnataka in India or abroad to their educational systems. Technobot has several education models built on AI and these models can be used by other educational institutes.

• Technobot will generate the revenue by playing advertisement on only parental app. This ad’s play is very minimal since Technobot doesn’t want to misuse the theme or goal of the project. Ad’s will be not played for students, teachers, Department of public instruction, DPI, Block Education Officers. This approach will be used to generate the revenue when same system will deployed for any public institutes in India or Abroad.

• Technobot will customize the tool for other Private or Government institutions in other state of India or outside India. Technobot will generate the revenue by providing the services and also configuring the tool for any new feature implementation recommended by the client (private and government institution).

• Reusing and Customizing AI and Deep learning model

for other  verticals  and industries

Market Trend

Technobot has done the survey on the market trend for non education and education sector to implement Kbot project and current market trend exploiting below technologies and Technobot is also perceive these technologies to implement the KBOT for the better implementation of Pedagogic Strategies.

• Use the AI technology for informal or data driven decision.
• Use the DevOps Technology to automate in the education system
• Improve the monitor the education quality by using technology based monitoring, controlling analytics, communication and collaboration
• Implementing intelligence tutoring system
• Growth of online education market in India
• Growth in Cloud Computing education section in India
• Implement the Native Language and English

Key Clients

Technobot is a vendor offering KBOT tool to all clients to educate and new modern technology in education sector.

• Public Instructor of Government of Karnataka (Free of cost ), other states schools and colleges.
• All the modules implemented in education sector using AI can customized and sold to other vertical of business like finance, health, hospital management and manufacturing sector.

Location of Pilot project execution  : Chickabalpura District.