Service Learning: “Connecting Classroom Knowledge to Real-world Impact through Community Projects:

Deleting the line between Education and Reality:

Education is complete only when education comes to use in reality. Service learning belongs to that kind. Our education system imparts knowledge to our brains but there is a small gap when it comes to implementation.

Malcolm X says “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” Service learning is the only tool that schools can utilize to make students understand the realities better. The students learn about the commonest problems in our community, and they learn about various solutions for the existing problems in our localities. But what they lack is practical exposure to those problems as well as their solutions in reality. As beautifully quoted by Albert Einstein “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not”.

Service learning is of various forms, here we are emphasizing service learning through volunteering for community projects.

School’s hands-on community projects:

Schools can have separate sessions and classes regarding community projects. The students can also be asked to survey the issues concerning any particular area or region. This will give an insight as to what is happening around them. Most students these days live on social media. They fail to see the actual things happening around them. They tend to live in their comfort zones. Community projects help them come out of their shells. The students can be made to volunteer towards certain community issues.

Benefits of Community projects:

Community projects make them understand, think and do the necessary things required. It makes them use their education wisely. Community projects activate a sense of responsibility in the students. Community projects help students to improvise and the communities to perish. Service learning imparts physical and mental strengthening to the students. Students are made to exert themselves both physically and mentally. Community learning will teach them endurance that can shape their futures.

Unity is strength:

This type of service learning will help the students learn to work in groups. They will know how to work harmoniously as a team. Working in teams will grow leadership qualities in them. The students will realise the strength of equality as well. They will develop from being sympathetic to empathetic towards various social problems.

The limitations of classroom knowledge will be eradicated through such projects. Their surroundings will become their classrooms, where they learn and implement their knowledge simultaneously. In classroom learning their focus tends to decrease depending upon their interests, but in service learning, they have no choice but to focus on whatever they are assigned to do. Service learning is also a good way to improve students’ focus towards rightful things. They tend to understand the fact that their existence has a strong purpose.

Conclusion:

Service learning through community projects helps the students to unleash their full potential, it helps them to motivate themselves and become noteworthy personalities in the future. Cape of Good Hope believes that practice makes the man perfect and inculcating practice from a young age is very important. Thus we at Cape of Good Hope inculcate and introduce children to varied community projects through our innovative programs around the year.

BUILDING BRIDGES: CONNECTING SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES FOR SAFE MOBILITY

Safe Transportation – Now a Challenge:

Transportation has now become a big word and a cause of concern. In the earlier days, people used to walk more, and vehicles were few, hence safety in transportation was never an issue. But now everybody uses some sort of vehicle, a cycle is used by children for commuting to school, tuition and other co-curricular classes, and adults to be fit.

Bikes are used by men and women for their routine commutations, and vehicles like cars, buses, and vans for professional as well as personal transportation. Once a luxury, has now become a necessity.

Every problem needs a solution and the solution has to come from all of us, we all need to come together and initiate a holistic response towards safe transportation.

Need of the hour – “COMING TOGETHER”

Life now is hectic allowing no connection between each other. We have to bridge that gap, to bring some changes concerning safe commutations. We come across many untoward incidents, due to a lack of awareness of road safety. The schools should bring up some initiatives that could help the students, parents and local people to come together and learn. The students are the future’s citizens. As always said “As you sow, so you shall reap” – a right thought sown in the student’s mind will make the future commutation safer.

The right thought to be taught:

The right thoughts can be taught through road safety campaigns, workshops, and awareness programs. The schools can take the help of students and their parents to devise some creative posters, hoardings, and awareness pamphlets that can be distributed among the local people and can be shared on social media.

Road safety can be taught to people through awareness skits and stand-up comedy shows that have a wider reach these days. The teachers, students and parents can come together and create a game or an app that could easily teach road safety concepts.

Rule begins at School:

School zones are usually congested in the morning hours and early evening hours. The students of the respective schools should be made to learn and follow the traffic rules strictly during these hours.

The importance of public transportation and walking needs to be emphasized. The schools should encourage the students and their parents to adopt walking to school, as the first step towards road safety. Adopting public transportation can largely contribute to a reduction in traffic congestion and chaos.

Socialization – Influence on Transport

This decade is socially overactive. Kids, adults and the elderly travel around various places. The number of vehicles has also increased accordingly, and traffic congestion has become a routine in everyone’s life. So, people’s safety is to be prioritized. Road safety drives are to be conducted routinely wherever and whenever possible by the schools, and the local community people.

Conclusion:

Coming together with effective road safety initiatives will empower individuals to commute safely. Communication about the commutation is the key to safe mobility. We at Cape of Good Hope want our future generations to be aware of their environment and their safety as it is the foremost aspect of a healthy living

Safer Streets, Healthier Kids – The importance of educational programs on road safety in schools:

Kids and street play are Synonymous!

Kids are the purest of souls on Earth. The priority of every parent is their kids. They spend their innocent childhood playing, especially outdoor games. The enjoyment they get through playing is a dream that is wished, to be continued forever. No worries and only playing is childhood’s mantra.

Though outdoor playing is Children’s preference, there is much to worry about the health of the child, due to the dangers associated. Only certain children have the privilege, of playing in a safe outdoor premises. Most of them play on the roads. Hence teaching Road safety when younger becomes important.

A major part of their lives during childhood, is at their schools. Teaching road safety at schools will enhance their ability to understand our road rules better.

Schools – Their First Road Experience:

Travelling to school becomes their first road experience. Though they travel a lot to other places, their childhood travel is dominated by schools. Every child has a means of transport. Some walk, few ride in cycle to school, and many of them go in car, bike and buses.

Though travelling to school is a moment of joy, it doesn’t come hazard-free. This decade has a huge number of vehicles passing by. And our children need to travel safely, to and fro from their schools.

When the rules and safety measures are taught to children at school, it makes their journeys hassle-free. Children ought to know the pros and cons of every means of transport. They should be made aware of basic rules like wearing helmets, fastening seat belts and following traffic signals properly.

Road Safety Educational Modules:

Schools can teach the children, through road safety workshops, and programs specially curated for kids. The teachers can teach through funny, yet thought-provoking stories about the importance of road safety. Road safety should be a part of their school syllabus and children need to be graded for the same. The grading will help them focus better. The students should be taught to adapt better and eco-friendly ways like walking and cycling to schools.

Road safety campaigns must be conducted by schools regularly. The students must be involved as volunteers, and they must be asked to make posters, and hoardings highlighting the importance of road safety. Working models on road safety rules, can be done by the students as a form of inquisitive learning process. Healthy practices such as walking to school must become a part of their road safety projects. Students enacting a skit scripted on road safety initiatives will be a great way of learning it. Students who excel themselves in these programs can be applauded. This will encourage other children to increase their involvement.

Conclusion:

Educated kids pave the way to safer streets and thus become healthier. The more the students are aware of road safety, the less we need to care. This is the motto of Cape of Good Hope in line with the schools.

Voices of Tomorrow: Developing Critical Thinking Through Debates and Storytelling in Schools:

Critical thinking: A MUST!!

Critical thinking is a dominant requirement in today’s world. But what’s critical thinking? Critical thinking is analyzing, questioning, evaluating and knowing every topic thoroughly. In simpler terms, it is feeding one’s curiosity through which their power of decision-making improves.

Why is critical thinking that important??

In recent years, education has become accessible to a larger sect of people. As the literacy rate increases, competition exponentially increases. In today’s digitalized world with extravagance and technical dominance, need for problem-solving is a must. Problem-solving skills are the result of critical thinking.

Role of schools in developing critical thinking:

School is the basement for learning. Every child’s aspiration gets a proper shape in their schools. The right teachers mould the children according to their capabilities. Children are the voice of tomorrow. They need to know and excel in the art of communication. Communication is the base of expressions. Even the best of ideas become crashed without a proper expression. Hence to communicate and share their thoughts, children need critical thinking skills. We all know well that – “Thoughts become words, words become action”. The thought processes with critical thinking give efficient and quality outcomes.

Critical thinking has become the base of employment in recent days. A talented person is not employed if, they lack decision-making and problem-solving skills. This ambitious world wishes to grow higher and higher. It is a race with many hurdles. The one who tackles the hurdles gets hired first. Hence, the schools need to train the children accordingly.

How can schools instill critical thinking, in juvenile brains??

Public speaking is a way of learning. It is a leadership quality in itself. Public speaking paves the way to critical thinking. When a few students talk together about a topic, various viewpoints surface.
To make students productive with each other is a prodigious task. This can be achieved in a conventional way – Debates. Debates give a topic its original value. Both the pros and cons of a topic are discussed. The issue is deeply analyzed both intellectually and emotionally giving an unprejudiced solution to it. When the schools initiate debates regularly, the children will become confident public speakers and analytical thinkers.

Next to public speaking, creativity matters for tackling the mountainous hurdles that come our way. The students have to be prepared on that ground. The best way to improvise creativity along with speaking is storytelling. Stories can change lives!! When students are encouraged to write their own stories, they will learn the art better. Writing a story requires voluminous reading. A fact when presented after thorough research in a story form has a larger impact and reach. Storytelling makes children confident, creative, hard-working and better readers.

Conclusion:

Critical thinking learnt at school, becomes the first asset of future for our future achievers and that’s what Cape of Good Hope is instilling in kids of today and tomorrow.

Journey Through History: The Educational Significance of Field Trips to Historical Sites

History – A Treasure Hunt

History is a tough, yet important part of our learning. History is proof of our identity, culture and geographical backgrounds. We learn a lot from the past events and our ancestors. “Old is gold” is a powerful quote. Most of the inventions are a part of history. What we do now is just discovery, rarely there are inventions too.

Only when we delve into the past, we have a clue as to what we can discover. History is a treasure, which has to be hunted properly with appropriate guidance. We can find gems as valuable as diamonds and deadly events that might threaten us to the core. The diamonds will help us grow, and the negative traces will help us not to fall and fail.

Schools Play a Massive Role in Teaching History:

School is the place where we start learning. That’s where history is introduced as a subject. It is an unwelcome subject. Students feel that learning about the past has no relevance in the present. Little that they realize that history has got answers for everything in their future.

Making History Interesting:

To make history interesting, Schools have to take the students to historical places on field trips. Such trips will encourage the children to create interest in the subject. A visual depiction of anything has a larger impact on the children. Movies are the best example of the benefits of visual depiction. When we see any movie, we easily connect with the place and people associated. When the students are taken to historical sites, they will start learning about the place and important events associated with it.

Magic of the Historical Sites:

These places will first kindle a sense of belonging in those who visit. The students will connect themselves, with the people who belonged to those times. They will learn about the hardships faced by people of those times. They will learn the beauties of living with nature. Though luxuries were present in every era, our previous times had fewer artificial things. Our ancestors were always one with nature.

Through visiting such places, students will get to know the architectural marvels of the buildings and the talents of the then architects. With the least resources, they were able to construct marvels! This will in turn show the importance of creativity.
Students will also learn the fact that “Nothing Comes Easy”. Our ancient times have seen more wars for even the basic amenities that we enjoy nowadays. Students will learn to know what contentment is. They will know the realities of life, and come out of the social media phantoms and fantasies.

Conclusion:

The journey through history is a beautiful experience and exposure, a school can award its students. The students will be mature, confident and most importantly self–reliant. The historical sites are nothing but historical achievements, that have a beautiful and saddening story behind them. This is the essence that Cape of Good Hope wants to instill in the Younger India of today and tomorrow

From Policy to Pavement: “Advocating for Safer Transportation Options in Your Community”

Transportation is the preliminary requirement for any Nation. Transportation is a major part of evolution; transportation has been evolving continuously. Our ancestors first walked, then used cattle for their mobility and slowly it changed and changed. Now here we are with the most luxurious of vehicles from smart cycles to extravagant cars and buses.

As transportation progressed, it brought challenges that needed to be met. Everybody from an infant to the elderly uses some sort of vehicle. An infant uses a perambulator (though it’s a passive mode of transport, it does contribute to the vehicles on the road). Number of vehicles has become insurmountable.

Challenges of Transportation system:

The first and foremost challenge faced due to transportation is the safety of the travellers. It is an urgent thing to be dwelt upon. Transportation can never be avoided, so we need to formulate things that prioritise road safety.

Safety not only begins by making strict rules for the riders, it should include strict infrastructural policies. As a community, we all need to look into the conditions of the roads, and tracks etc., We must make sure that the infrastructure on which our transportation relies has to be maintained properly. Though the transportation infrastructure needs the government’s concentration to a larger extent, as civilians we need to strictly maintain the infrastructure carefully and properly.

Economies are more dependent on transportation. Transportation has to be reliant and sustainable for our economies to be sustainable.

What are the safer options for commutation?

Though transportation is inevitable, its usage could be a bit reduced. Anything becomes hazardous upon over-exploitation. The same is the case with the transportation system. The number of vehicles has to be reduced to avoid traffic jams, which is a major threat to the transport system.

People need to adapt to walking whenever possible. Walking makes our physique as well as roads healthier. Walking to a significant extent, reduces the number of vehicles on the road. While travelling by cycle or two-wheeler safety measures like helmets should worn without fail. In cars and all other closed vehicles, fastening the seat belts should become a habit. All of us should become self-conscious and responsible. We need to avoid travelling without proper training and with people who lack proper driving papers. Adapting public transport also avoids traffic congestion. Erol Rozen rightly says” You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system”. The public transportation system is an Eco friendly and a reliable option.

Role of Vehicles in Safe Transportation:

Though we have discussed the infrastructure on which transportation is reliant and those who travel by vehicle, we need to address the vehicles themselves. Safety depends upon roads, people and mainly the vehicles. The vehicles have to be properly driven and properly maintained. The vehicles need to be serviced regularly, which can avoid unnecessary untoward events that can happen because of spoilt vehicles.

Conclusion:

Safe transportation leads to a happy and hassle-free future is the mott of Cape of Good Hope.

The inception of Atal Tinkering Labs was a watershed moment for the Indian Education system. Owing to such labs, myriad of students are now coming forward to innovate something revolutionary with the help of scientific equipment available to them.

There is still some opacity among various educational institutions regarding the setting up and functioning of these labs. We have attempted to resolve these confusions by discussing all major aspects of Atal Tinkering Labs in India.

Background

To promote a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation across India, Indian Government’s Think Tank Niti Aayog launched its flagship program Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). This initiative is instrumental in streamlining the policies by the government that revolve around innovation. The concept of Atal Tinkering Labs in Indian schools is one of the primary offerings by AIM.

What are Atal Tinkering Labs?
Atal Tinkering Labs are workspaces in the schools where the students of Class Sixth-Twelfth can acquire innovative skills through hands-on learning. The Niti Aayog envisions nourishing one million students as innovators in the future.

The tools and equipment in the laboratories enable the students to learn multiple STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) concepts. As a result, they are able to transform their ideas into reality. The equipment and DIY (do-it-yourself) kits are mainly related to the latest technologies, such as robotics, microcontroller boards, 3D printing, and sensors.

Additional activities

This initiative isn’t just limited to promoting the innovation culture by working in the labs. Numerous additional activities can also be conducted, including exhibitions and competitions at the national and regional level. To promote problem-solving among the students, workshops and lecture series can be conducted regularly. Screening of STEM-related films is often included by the educational institution. Niti Aayog also encourages the ATL schools to invite reputed speakers for talks on STEM education and entrepreneurship.

Financial support to the schools

Each school selected for setting up Atal Tinkering Laboratory in India receives a grant of Rs. 10 lakh from the Indian government for the establishment of the lab.

The school also receives a sum of Rs. 10 lakh separately for operating the lab over a period of five years. This amount is also used for the:

• Maintenance of the lab
• Competitions
• Lecture series
• Payments to the mentors and other professionals involved

The involvement from other institutions for financial support is also encouraged to further upgrade the ATLs. The Niti Aayog encourages local institutions and industries to be a part of this initiative by creating facilities and exhibits that are domain/subject specific. Recently, SAP Global had a tie-up with Atal Innovation Mission to adopt 100 ATLs across India.

Equipment in the labs

The Niti Aayog provides a comprehensive list of the equipment and tools to be purchased by the schools through the funds granted to them. These tools and equipment are segmented into four different packages:

Package 1: The kits and equipment related to robotics, electronics development, Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors are part of this package.

Package 2: This package constitutes rapid prototyping tools, including the 3D printer kit and tools, along with filament for the 3D printers. A set of arts & crafts accessories is also found in this package.

Package 3: All the electrical, mechanical and measurement tools come under this package. Some of these tools include pliers, screwdriver set, soldering iron kit and workstation for drilling.

Package 4: It comprises safety equipment, accessories, consumables, power supply, and a construction kit.

Innovations by the students

What differentiates an ATL from a science or technology lab is the fact that the focus is on interdisciplinary learning so that students can create something revolutionary.

To further accelerate the creation of groundbreaking ideas, the Niti Aayog had organized a six-month-long nationwide challenge called Atal Tinkering Marathon. The themes included clean energy, water resources, waste management, smart mobility, agri-tech, and waste management. Top 30 innovations from this challenge received various prizes, which also involved the three-month-long ATL Student Innovator Program (ATL SIP). These innovations include:

• A smart tap to monitor and purify water flowing through it
• Use of sewage water to produce electricity
• A smart lock system to avoid accidents, theft and illegal use of two-wheelers
• Air purification and monitoring system
• Waste cleaning robot based on ‘C’ Programming language

These and numerous other ideas highlight how the student working in these Atal Tinkering Laboratories can drastically improve the society we live in.

Eligibility Criteria for the Schools

Infrastructure: The school applying for the ATL must have 1,500 square feet of area. For the schools in hilly/Himalayan and island states, UTs, the minimum eligible area is 1,000 square feet. There should be facilities like a science lab, a steady electricity connection, a computer lab with internet, a library and a playground in the school campus.

Faculty: The school must have employed dedicated and qualified staff for Sciences and Mathematics.

Enrollments: A minimum of 400 students must have enrolled in Grades VI-X. For the schools in hilly states, this number is 250 students.

Attendance: The attendance of the students and faculty must be 75 percent or above in the last three years.

The selection process, which involves two rounds, takes around 10 weeks. The application form and deadline can be checked from here: http://aimapp2.aim.gov.in/.

Advisory Body

Each school with Atal Tinkering Lab is supposed to constitute an advisory body to monitor the operations of the ATL. The AIM suggests the following members for this body:

• Chairman – Principal of the School
• Convener – Faculty-in-charge of the ATL
• Two Members – Alumni/reputed academia/young innovators/ representative from local industry or local community
• Two Members – Parents of the School Students
• The advisory body needs to conduct at least three meetings per year and is supposed to send the report of each meeting to AIM.

Contact us for More Information:

We hope that this information will answer a lot of your questions. You can always connect with our representatives for more details on establishing or operating the Atal Tinkering Labs in India. Our representatives are available through:

Phone: 9643327934

Email: info@capeofgoodhope.co.in

It’s an undeniable truth that one of the most precious things in this world is time. That is the reason why in an interview, the legendary Tamil and Bollywood actor Kamal Haasan once said: “If I had stolen anything valuable in this world, I could have stolen time.” However, time is precious for those who understand the importance of time by making its best use in life as the time once passed can never return. So, why don’t you make the best use of your time at such a time when you are having ample of time?

As you all are well aware that due to the spread of the deadly coronavirus or covid19, the whole world is affected in a very miserable way. It has terrified the humanity at large causing thousands of deaths, hospitalisation, quarantining and all. Many countries in the world including, India have enforced lockdown which is just like clamping of curfew. Nobody will get out of homes until any dire requirement or emergency arises there. All of should follow this precautionary measure to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.

I have seen in some video clips that people are dancing, singing, watching movies at their homes to bust their boredom during this lockdown while there are also the people who are praying Almighty God to get the whole humanity relieved from this menace. Students have also shown their patience by staying home consistently. What I meant to say is why don’t you make the best use of this sufficient time? If you really want to educate yourself from your home in the stream of science, technology, engineering, maths and other relevant subjects, it’s a golden opportunity to visit www.mystemtime.com where you can find a treasures of learning through online and video classes.

Just visit the website www.mystemtime.com where you can watch free educational videos related to the following and learn these valuable things online.

• Elementary learning
• STEM Concepts
• Robotics and Coding
• Electronics & Embedded Systems
• 3D Printing
• Audiovisual Assessments

You can register on My STEM Time as a mentor or as student. Videos on the following information and topics are available for aspiring students who watch them and benefit from them as much as possible:

• My STEM Time feature multiple products based videos
• Watch STEM videos on different categories
• Watch ATAL Tinkering Lab videos and check the level of learning the videos
• Watch participants spending times on models in competition
• Connect with Mentor & Students on the contests regularly held

My STEM Time has a team of professionals who are specialised in their field with ample expertise ever ready to help you learn what you aspire to learn and even what you might have not been knowing whether to learn or not to learn. They are selected professionals to introduce you to the modern and international patterns of learning like STEM & STEAM Education, ATAL Tinkering Lab, Artificial Intelligence, etc. as all these are made through STEM and STEAM the subject to hands-on learning or practical learning with tools and other objects. The videos related to them will also suffice to teach you as much as you can be able to handle these things easily. So, hurry up! The time once passed will never return to serve you again.

Growing population, lack of political will, economic slump and some other pertinent aspects have been the reasons behind blurring the hopes of job opportunities in India that have brought them to almost their saturating point. But if the old proverb “Where there is the will there is a way” is followed, it plays an encouraging role to help the Indian youth explore newer ways of opportunities and become symbiotically advantageous with their knowledge, expertise and spirit to work. There are various disciplines of education, and many of them include professional courses, and learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) being one of them has better prospects for Indian youth. Though developed countries are harnessing AI to the best they can afford, India has also joined the bandwagon and it is also on the path of adopting AI for its better future. However, before we go into its depth, we must have a glance of Artificial Intelligence.

What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also called Machine Intelligence because it’s the simulation of human intelligence. Whatever benefits we obtain from AI is in fact, the reflection of human brain that applies to program for a specific output to obtain from AI. Driverless trains and vehicles, ATM machine, appearance of similar advertisements and options for songs and movies of your choice on social websites and even many things which we find and utilize in our day-to-day life are based on automation that works by AI.

15 Ways of How AI can increase job opportunities in India

The demand for fusion of man-machine teams
The future of job opportunities in India banks on how nicely humans and artificial intelligence combine together to build the fusion of man-machine teams. This initiative can blend the strengths of both AI and humans to bring out better business results.

Nationwide Employment
The companies that bring AI into effect can generate more money to expand their businesses. As a result, AI can lead to higher employee wages, better technology tools, and huge efficiency. With such accomplishments, companies can broaden their access to other parts of the world. This, in turn, will demand a global workforce, which India can generate more job opportunities for those who will be well-versed in AI.

The Role of AI in Marketing & Sales
As AI is playing a significant role in marketing and sales, it can build effective, large-scale sales forces by developing smart databases. Such tools as Zendesk and Salesforce are making use of AI to develop the insights that can enable the companies in inducting the ideal sales teams for their businesses.

AI can help companies rise
If big data of large amounts can be used prudently by AI and machine learning algorithms, it will enable companies perform relatively better. The employee retention rate can also be enhanced by it and it can help in new customer acquisition. Thus, it can create new job opportunities as companies will start flourishing and fetching benefits to the industry as a whole.

AI can generate new job positions
According to a recent World Economic Forum report, around 50% of the full-time employees of companies will shrink in a few years to come. Though AI will play a role to curtail jobs, but simultaneously it will make a demand for new job positions. In order to make AI function impeccably, humans will be required to have a check on work, bringing improvement to it and manage it. It is indicated by WEF that the new position will call for additional skills for managing the edge between technology and man.

Jobs maintenance by AI
AI is aiding businesses to operate more smoothly, particularly in such areas as customer service, automation, and so forth. There are also some companies that have even integrated AI in all their essential systems. Since AI is being implemented in several industries, the demand for an AI maintenance workforce is on rise. Resultantly, companies would need a large number of AI developers and engineers for maintenance of their systems.

AI’s role in Robotics
As estimated, the realm of robotics is going to experience an immense growth in the year to come. AI-based robots like stationary robots, non-humanoid land robots, and fully automated aerial drones, are attaining substantial business interest from companies across the world. Some of the Indian companies will also take part in it. This increasing demand is sure to widen the avenues of job opportunities for AI robotics engineers.

Acting as Facilitator
Companies adopting AI are going to make a demand for AI facilitators who will bring business to them with flexibility to create their own AI environments. It will include the creation of automated environments as also the build systems like virtual assistants. These environments will help the workforce perform better without depending considerably on security, governance, data control and compliance.

AI in Healthcare
AI has more scope in healthcare. As per PwC estimates, healthcare will be one of the biggest winners from AI, where increase in job opportunities can be nearly 1 million, and India may share a considerable percent of this increase. In years to come, AI-powered healthcare is going to be available at a scale and on-demand for everybody. Therefore, the need for AI-assisted healthcare jobs is expected to see a big rise.

Playing major role in Automated Transportation
Such companies as Uber and Google are investing millions on AI-driven self-driving cars and trucks. As such mode of transportation is going to pick market up in the future; it will create a large number of vacancies for AI and machine learning engineers not only in foreign countries, but in India as well.

AI in Digital Assistants
The Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and Bixby are such Digital Assistants that are getting more active by the year. Global IT giants like Google, Samsun, and Amazon are investing billions into making digital assistants perform complicated tasks. These works involve learning about our daily routines, speech recognition, and so on. As per Zion market research, by 2025, the global intelligent virtual assistant market will go up to $19.6 billion.

In Financial Services
Today, banks and financial services companies need AI engineers to develop the systems that will identify and lessen the incidents of fraud. Besides security, AI is being used in financial marketing. In this way, the AI job opportunities in financial companies will also increase.

In Gaming Industry
AI applications are found to be substantially large in the area of gaming industry. Whether it is design and development to in-game operations and maintenance, AI’s role in receiving rewards for gaming companies has been of remarkably substantive. As the reality games becoming more popular, companies are opting to invest major amounts on AI-based systems. In this way, the demand for AI developers in gaming industry is going to grow considerably.

In Education Sector
According to a recent report of PwC, the education sector is going to create almost 200,000 extra jobs, and of course, India will also have a certain number of vacancies for AI qualified youth. The concepts like smart content, personalized learning, and other data-driven operations hugely hinge upon AI.

In Entertainment Industry
The entertainment industry has very high expectation from AI and machine learning potentials and professionals. With identification of the online consumers’ behaviour, AI algorithms help in recommending media that suitably meet the consumers’ choices. Hence, the industry is going to hire a colossal AI workforce to meet their requirements.

India has embarked upon harnessing the benefits of AI; however it needs to widen its field to maximize the use of AI not only to run all machineries and industries smartly but also to maximize the number of vacancies for AI professionals, thereby increasing their dependence on AI. So it’s also an opportunity lies ahead for the Indian youth to learn AI and become AI expert to secure job across the world besides having broader chance to get absorbed in motherland per se.

After carving out its distinct niche in various sectors by virtue of bringing unprecedented benefits to humankind, now Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been proved an excellent technology to help in understanding and using English language appropriately. Yes, now AI will help computers in understanding the idioms and phrases also. Till recently, the technologies in use were to interpret the language, yet they were not proved worthy of doing satisfactorily error-free interpretation or translation because the machines could not grab the appropriate meaning of the idioms and phrases. For example, still Google translation is not fully reliable if brought into idiomatic perspective of interpretation. That’s the reason why in many offices and departments where linguistic chastity is given top priority manual translators are hired to do the needful.

A pioneering feat in understanding idioms

However, the US based IT company IBM has made an innovation in AI technology as its Artificial Intelligence researchers have introduced a considerable upgrade to the renowned Watson computer, enabling it to understand idioms and colloquialisms that indeed is a pioneering feat in this field. IBM claims that the update makes it the first commercial Artificial Intelligence system able to identify, understand and analyse some of the most exigent features of the English language.

Interpretation of tricky phrases is made possible

When tested, the complicated phrases such as “in the soup”, “hot under the collar”, “over the moon”, “hardly helpful” and so forth are confusing for algorithms to spot, i.e. AI is not able to debate the multifaceted topics or have nuanced discussions with humankind. “Language is a tool for expressing thought and opinion, as much as it is a tool for information,” acquainted Rob Thomas, a general manager at IBM Data and Artificial Intelligence. He further said, “This is why we believe that advancing our ability to capture, analyse, and understand more from language with NLP (Natural Language Processing) will help transform how businesses utilize their intellectual capital that is codified in data.”

IBM announces the advancement

The announcement of the advancement was made by IBM as part of a new suite of Watson technologies focussed on NLP, which is going to be implemented from its Project Debater Artificial Intelligence system. Of course, it marks the pioneering commercialisation of the key NLP flairs and will be taken as if Watson is “the only Artificial Intelligence system capable of debating human beings on intricate topics,” as opined by IBM.

New advance sentiment analysis

With new advance sentiment analysis, the feature suggests that Artificial Intelligence will no longer get confused over such phrases as given above for example. The new grade of understanding will have instant use in such zone as customer care, where the recurrent delivery of casually confusing language can be comprehended easily in areas like customer care, where more use of casual language has made correct understanding, grading and detailed analysis an arduous task.

Agile and active IBM’s Watson while paving its way for popularity in 2011 took on and subdued human champions at the US game show Jeopardy, making Watson the first computer capable to understand the unique question-answer format made the show win a wide popularity.