"Classrooms of the Future: Cutting-Edge Creativity Today with Adobe. Gaining a Competitive Edge Tomorrow"
24 August 2023
The event was held on Thursday, 24th August 2023 at Hotel JW Marriott, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru. It was organized by Adobe and the media partner was APAC News Network. The event was attended by academicians, teachers, and students from various institutions across India.
The event was aimed at discussing how Indian academic institutions can leverage AI and adopt Adobe tools to empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively. It also explored how academicians can share best practices on embracing digital transformations in their institutions and prepare students for the future.
Key Points Discussed
The following key points were discussed during the event:
The need for a shift from traditional classrooms to future classrooms as outlined in India's National Education Policy (NEP).
How AI and Adobe tools can be used to empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively.
How academicians can share best practices on embracing digital transformations in their institutions.
How academicians can prepare students for the future and provide them with specially curated creative curriculum to increase their skill ability and employability.
How Adobe Creative Cloud tools and AI tools can help students of academic institutions perform better.
Gist of Points Shared in Roundtable Discussion
The following are the gist of points shared in the roundtable discussion:
Students should learn at home and spend class time applying their knowledge to real-life issues.
Technology can change learning forever and we need to embrace it and manipulate it to our advantage.
Teachers of the future must be prepared to be data collectors, as well as analysts, planners, collaborators, curriculum experts, synthesizers, problem-solvers and researchers.
Students will no longer have to rely on the artistic calibre of their teachers to communicate difficult concepts.
Giving students a sustainable and high-quality education in the future will be made possible by a mix of teachers' involvement and AI.
Academic institutions must incorporate digital tools and skills into their infrastructure and curricula.
The NEP emphasizes experiential learning and art-integrated education.
Academic institutions must develop smart classrooms, in a phased manner enriching with online resources and collaborations.
The next phase of AI involves extracting intelligence from documents to gain valuable insights and streamline processes further.
We need to tap into that intelligence in order to gain more insights, and gain more understanding.
Adobe tools empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively, so they can turn their classroom ideas into college and career opportunities.
Dr Thothathri Venugopal participated in the roundtable discussion as a panellist. He shared his insights on how academic institutions can leverage AI and Adobe tools to empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively. He also spoke about the importance of experiential learning and art-integrated education in the NEP.
Dr Thothathri Venugopal was also awarded the Outstanding Education Leadership Award at the event. The award was given in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of education.
Overall, the event was a great success. It provided a platform for academicians, teachers, and students to discuss the future of education and how AI and Adobe tools can be used to empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively.
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