{"id":141069,"date":"2024-03-20T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141069"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:04:27","slug":"sri-lanka-begins-ai-school-education-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/03\/20\/sri-lanka-begins-ai-school-education-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka begins AI-school education integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>courtesy aa.com<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Initiative to offer students above grade 8 opportunity to delve into AI within realm of information technology, says Colombo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has begun integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into school education, an official statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The island nation\u2019s Education Ministry signed an agreement with Microsoft on Tuesday to commence a pilot project to integrate AI into the school curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative will offer students above grade 8 the opportunity to delve into AI within the realm of Information Technology,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Minister Susil Premjayanth said Colombo expects to fully implement the program by next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, the project will be rolled out in 20 schools across 20 districts, with a commitment to provide conducive classrooms and necessary technical equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dedicated team from Microsoft will extend support to facilitate online educational activities,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy aa.com Initiative to offer students above grade 8 opportunity to delve into AI within realm of information technology, says Colombo Sri Lanka has begun integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into school education, an official statement said. The island nation\u2019s Education Ministry signed an agreement with Microsoft on Tuesday to commence a pilot project to integrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}