200,000 French students will gain from the release of the AI-powered study software MIA

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered teaching tool will allow lycée students in France to edit texts and maths problems.

“Modules interactifs adaptatifs,” or MIA, is the name of the app developed by the French EdTech startup EvidenceB.

One of the final choices made by former French Education Minister Gabriel Attal before he was appointed the nation’s new prime minister in January was to make access broadly available to 15-year-olds.The decision was taken in response to the release of concerning data about the educational attainment of French schoolchildren.

It “will be made available for free to 200,000 Year 11 students over the next few months, before being rolled out to all next September,” the education ministry said in a statement.

“There are 20,000 adaptive exercises available for students at MIA,” co-founder of EvidenceB Thierry de Vulpillières said to the French station BFM.

The technology does not produce for pupils; rather, it forces them to think.

De Vulpillières said, “You need to give exercises that are challenging enough to push the student, but not too hard so they become discouraged, or too easy so they get bored.”

The AI-powered app’s algorithm provides the student with the optimal workouts to do development.

The application comes with a dashboard that lets the teacher keep an eye on each student’s development. This provides a really handy synopsis,” teacher Cécile Cathelin, who worked with EvidenceB to create MIA’s resources, said to Euronews Next.

She suggested that the method might result in time savings for teachers. “Students’ strengths and weaknesses will be instantly recognised by artificial intelligence,” she continued.