Now, Bots and AR Bring Textbooks to Life

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    • Publish Date: Jul 25 2016 1:33PM
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    • Updated Date: Jul 25 2016 1:33PM
Now, Bots and AR Bring Textbooks to Life

New tech being used by ed-tech companies like Smartivity, Blippar, Vidyanext and PaGaLGuY to enhance learning experiences


Entrepreneur Pratima Rege's daughters Navya (11) and Nyaara (7) are big fans of augmented reality startup Smartivity's 'Safari' colouring kit. The girls go about colouring the animals on the sheet, scan them and watch in fascination as the animals come alive on the screen. Moreover, the girls get to learn about the animals too.
Augmented reality (AR) is one of the emerging trends in the nascent education technology space in the country. “They (the kids) were thrilled to see it ( an animal) come to life. It has impacted them in a wow way. It kept their interest for the longest time and they have retained the knowledge,” said Rege. “Kids these days know what interaction is, through games. This (AR) will take it a bit further than fun and help them in understanding concepts. It adds a new dimension,” said Tushar A Amin, co-founder of Smartivity Labs. Another AR app firm, London-based Blippar, has plans to engage with the education ecosystem to look for potential uses of AR to enhance learning experiences. “Conversations with different stakeholders —  colleges, schools, boards and publishers — are ongoing. We have Blippar Education as a separate vertical. In a couple of months, we will be closing a few deals. There is a huge shift towards visual-based education here,” said Arnav Ghosh, managing director, Blippar India. If AR is one emerging trend in ed-tech, bots is another. Bots are used to run automated tasks like revisions, feedback and announcements. These are tasks that any teacher or course provider will have to waste a certain amount of time on every day.
“We have stared with what we know are pain points. For example, you studied something yesterday , revise today . It also gives reminders, acknowledgement of progress and also loops in the other players (tuition teachers and parents),” said Ravi Kittu, vice- president of product and marketing at tutor aggregator platform Vidyanext. Its bot is called Vidyabot. According to Allwin Agnel, founder of education network PaGaLGuY, bots can have a lot of applications than just coaching and doing repetitive work. “Once you have data, the bots will become intelligent. The next generation of bots will do a lot of things. For example, a social bot, will check for people who live nearby and ask if you want to meet them. Bots will step up to do things that humans cannot,” he said. Agnel has introduced bots into Prepathon, a learning app which helps students prepare for MBA, IBPS and SSC, among others. Prepathon already has revision, feedback, motivation and announcement bots and has plans to introduce one new bot every month.  ET

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maheswara sri vidyanjali high school

this is the best significant step taken.It can help children like me to get more deeper in to the topic.I wish JK Rowling''s books also done like this.

Samueal Raj Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

That is a very good move.

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