Edtech startups are using Chat GPT in a variety of ways to enhance their products and services
The opportunities for Edtech companies are to increasingly use Chat GPT to develop virtual assistants or chatbots to assist students with their studies. These virtual assistants can help answer questions, provide feedback on assignments, and offer personalised learning recommendations based on the student’s progress and learning preferences. Chat GPT can help make these virtual assistants more responsive and engaging by generating natural language responses that are more like a human conversation.
Using Chat GPT to develop a more personalised learning experience that adapts to the individual needs of each student seems to be the need of the hour. By analysing data on a student’s performance, learning style, and preferences, Chat GPT can help create learning experiences that are tailored to the student’s unique needs. This can help improve student engagement as well as lead to better learning outcomes.
While there are numerous benefits of the Chat GPT era, let us look beyond the obvious.
Differentiation in the ChatGPT era
What is more critical is how one really develops a competitive edge in this era where a host of solutions as well as different patterns of thinking will be delivered to you by a mere prompt. What will differentiate one bunch of students from the others in the Chat GPT era?
If one may call them there are a host of new-age Edtech startups that are mushrooming all over the country. It is astonishing the way schools in smaller towns and cities are embracing robotics and space technology. Kids from far-flung areas across the country are being introduced to STEM labs’ design thinking and analytical skills from Class 5.
The inspiration is to participate in international competitions in subjects like space technology and robotics. These Edtech companies are clearly creating the next generation of problem solvers who look at things in a structured holistic manner and think of ideas that can solve genuine problems. At the same time thinking creatively and in a nonlinear manner to arrive at different perspectives is encouraged
With the advent of Shark Tank entrepreneurship and the power of BIG ideas are being cherished and celebrated across age groups. Stories of teens getting inspired by Shark Tank and even appearing on the show are doing the rounds. Start-up ideation is being celebrated across age groups.
The opportunity to create the next generation of problem solvers who can think beyond the obvious across fields will probably be the game changer for the new-age Edtech companies. What will also be critical is how skills like design thinking can be democratized and even a kid from a low-income school can get access to tools and perspectives that can enhance his chances of becoming a critical thinker of the future
A series of Edtech startups have kickstarted what no one thought would happen in India 10 years ago. Different sets or skill sets are emerging and these are empowering kids to develop an entrepreneurial problem-solving mindset that can enable them to compete at a global level.
While Chat GPT will continue to evolve and change the face of education in times to come, the real game changer will perhaps be the next generation of critical thinkers and problem solvers who will leverage Chat GPT to arrive at path-breaking solutions for every conceivable problem.
While Chat GPT as a tool will become more and more efficient and creative we need to place greater emphasis on the next generation of thinkers who will leverage this tool to take the human race to greater heights
Final thoughts
While Chat GPT as a tool will become more and more efficient and creative we need to place greater emphasis on the next generation of thinkers who will leverage this tool to take the human race to greater heights.
-By
Aditya Jaishankar
Brand Consultant
