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facilitate interactive
                                                                                              and engaging
                                                                                              educational activities.
                                                                                              Moreover,  AI  can
                                                                                              enable access  to a
                                                                                              vast array of educa-
                                                                                              tional     resources,
                                                                                              promote       critical
                                                                                              thinking and prob-
                                                                                              lem-solving    skills,
                                                                                              and          prepare
                                                                                              students for future
                                                                                              careers in technolo-
                                                                                              gy-driven
                                                                                              industries.
           Today  we are facing a surge of
           large language model interfaces                                           At the end  of the academic
           like ChatGPT, Copilot, and                                             term as the exams commenced,
           Gemini. As a mentor teacher,                                            making use of the no-exam
           recently    I  found     myself                                          days I thought  of organising
           amidst     several    academic                                           full-day workshops  for the
           discussions on the use of various                                       educators empowering them
           AI chatbots and apprehensions                                           in the use of AI tools and
           of the educators.                                                      lesson design systems in my
                                                                                mentee schools.
               A major cause of worry amongst
           educators was that the students have                                  I  discussed  the same  with our
           become adept at using these Artificial                  dynamic Principal Mr. Ajay Kumar who has
           intelligence systems and they were facing             recently been selected through UPSC.
           challenges keeping pace with them. So, this led       Sir welcomed the idea wholeheartedly and
           to a healthy discussion on my part convincing         offered full support for the same. Thus, with the
           the educators about the ability of AI as an incredible   support of a visionary leader started the journey
           tool that can decrease an educator's workload         into the transformative realm of AI where the
           and help students learn faster. Hence, the need       educators engaged in hands-on experience in GCO-
           was felt  to empower our educators with  the          EDSSS Possangipur B-1 Janakpuri.
           knowledge and skills needed to harness the
           potential of AI in designing engaging, effective          The endeavour then spread to other schools
           lesson plans for our students. It was this            namely GSKV G Block Vikaspuri and GBSSS
           thought that steered me as a mentor educator.         KG1/2 Vikaspuri. The implementation of this
                                                                 initiative required a lot of background work on
               By leveraging AI tools such as ChatGPT and        my part.
           other LLMs, educators can create content that
           caters to the diverse needs of our students              So, I touched base with educators and made
           enhancing student engagement,  motivation,            note of  their requirements  and  expectations.
           and learning outcomes. But, here is a caution         Then  started the planning stage, wherein I
           too!                                                  prepared a PowerPoint presentation, listed
                                                                 various AI resources and narrowed it down to
               AI technologies can offer personalized learning   find  time in schools  when all teachers were
           experiences, provide immediate feedback, and          available for training.

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