The new EBA was introduced with a program attended by the Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin at the MEB Shura Hall in Ankara. EBA, which was restructured within the scope of digital transformation in education; It was stated that it is aimed to develop it with artificial intelligence-supported applications, personalized learning tools, academic development tracking and measurement-evaluation systems. It was noted that the platform, which was prepared for students from pre-school to secondary education, as well as teachers, parents and education administrators, includes applications for lesson planning, access to digital content and tracking of learning processes.
Speaking in the program, Minister Tekin congratulated the 29 October Republic Day and said, "Today is the 28 October, tomorrow is the Republic Day. In a very difficult period, as a result of a very difficult struggle, the Republic was established on 29 October 1923 as a result of the War of Independence. And as the Ministry of National Education, we were entrusted with the task of raising a youth who will advance, preserve and defend the Republic of Turkey. First of all, I congratulate all of us on the Republic Day."
"THEY WERE CRITICISMING THE INVESTMENTS AS 'GARBAGE' AND 'WASTE'"
Stating that he started working as an undersecretary at the Ministry of National Education in the spring of 2013, Tekin said, "The title that we were most criticized by the opposition that day was the FATİH Project. Opposition political parties were criticizing the investments we made on the use of technology in education as 'garbage' and 'waste'. The projection of the FATİH Project that day was; there are very important changes in the digital field in the world, we acted on the assumption that Türkiye should establish a mechanism that can use digital infrastructure in education as soon as possible. That day." "The opposition, which criticizes this as 'garbage' and an unnecessary investment, criticizes our shortcomings in technology literacy and digital field or 'This should also be done', we need to be consistent," he said.
"EBA IS THE SUBJECT WE ARE BEST AT AMONG EUROPEAN COUNTRIES"
Stating that the technological transformation in education started with the FATİH Project in 2011, Minister Tekin said, "We started this work with the FATİH Project in 2011 and said, 'We should establish a digital infrastructure in all of our schools.' Because technology changes very frequently, these changes will definitely have reflections on education. Internet infrastructure in our schools and interactive boards in our classrooms were indispensable for this project. After establishing this infrastructure, what should be the main mechanism that our children can use with this infrastructure? We focused here and "We designed EBA to be one of the largest education content portals in the world. In this sense, EBA is by far the best among European countries in terms of the number of active users around 6 million," he said.
"WE HAVE ACQUIRED AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTED INFRASTRUCTURE"
Stating that EBA has reached a new dimension in artificial intelligence integration, Minister Tekin said, "At today's point, there is a different picture regarding EBA, which we have been trying to enrich continuously since 2011. That is, there is a reality called artificial intelligence, which has seriously entered the new normal life in the world. And we need to transform artificial intelligence into an infrastructure in which our children and young people can benefit from artificial intelligence and produce from artificial intelligence within the education and training processes. The new EBA project is actually artificial intelligence." "We would like to share with you the integration of intelligence with the rich EBA knowledge and other applications of the Ministry of National Education. You will be able to see only a part of our artificial intelligence applications in the new EBA. Apart from these, we have established an infrastructure that allows us to make rational decisions with the support of artificial intelligence from billions of data. In this sense, we have provided all our schools with an artificial intelligence-supported infrastructure that can instantly report all anomalies, from their physical positions to their geographical locations, from their academic achievements to their human resource needs."
"DON'T TRUST THE DRAWS"
Minister Tekin said that negative perception studies against the platform should not be relied upon and said, "I would like to underline this; the Ministry of National Education has always been under attack from other units that have tried to exercise tutelage over it. We are always fighting against a structure that tries to sell auxiliary books and sells auxiliary books by denouncing the textbooks of the Ministry of National Education; that gives or wants to sell private tutoring services and, while selling this, denigrates the teachers of the Ministry of National Education, denigrates the schools of the Ministry of National Education, and disregards the efforts of our teachers." "Nowadays, the new artificial intelligence-supported applications of both MEBİM and EBA are faced with similar smears by people who want to market their own products for the purpose of managing perception," he said.
