NCERT forms a team to create AI textbooks for grades 11 and 12
The Ministry of Education has announced that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has forms a team to create AI textbooks for grades 11 and 12. The ministry of education, through our sources, also mentioned while answering a question in the Lok Sabha that NCERT had included a project in Grade 6 vocational education textbook which involves the use of AI for games and animation.
In response to the NEP 2020 and National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has set up a Textbook Development Team to prepare artificial intelligence curricula and textbooks for Grades 11 and 12. Furthermore, NCERT has included an animation and games project in the sixth-grade vocational education textbook. The Education Ministry remarked, "This project will utilize AI technologies."
The Ministry of Education has not failed to express its commitment to the future-ready education through the promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Thinking (AI & CT) all the time.
The authorities mentioned that the AI curriculum will be introduced in Class 3 of all schools from the academic year 2026-2027. In fact, this will be in accordance with NEP 2020 and NCF SE 2023.
Official sources report that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is now having the AI and computational thinking curriculum for the students from grade three to twelve. The main objective of the curriculum is to offer the lower grades with a presentation of the basic AI concepts and to make the advanced computational thinking and AI a compulsory subjects for the nine and ten classes.
The Indian government has formed the SOAR (Skilling for AI Readiness) national project, which is in consonance with the NEP 2020, NPAI Skilling Framework and Viksit Bharat 2047 goals of digital empowerment and inclusive growth.
SOAR's main objective is to make teachers aware of AI and give a solid grounding in the technology and the skills needed to use it to students in grades 6 through 12.
The initiative behind it, the ministry says, is that it will help in closing the digital divide by giving equal access to AI education in all regions of the country and thereby supporting the national aim of inclusive, future-ready skilling.
The SOAR program consists of four progressive modules aligned with the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF).
The students in grades 6 through 12 can earn three different micro-credentials of 15 hours each, and a total of 45 hours, namely: (i) AI to be Aware, (ii) AI to Acquire, and (iii) AI to Aspire.
