It @school

it@school

1. IT @SCHOOL

2. IT@SCHOOL An information technology project under the Department of General and Higher Education,Government of Kerala in India. Launched in 2001 to foster IT education in schools. IT@School Project is termed as the Single largest simultaneously deployment of FOSS based ICT education. Headquarters in Thrivunanthapuram and it has District Resource Centers in each district . Current Executive Director is K.Anvar Sadath The project remodeled teaching methodologies in classrooms through the use of IT.

3. It is being implemented in 12,000 schools in Kerala which follows the state syllabus. The project provides ICT enabled education to 1.6 million students and 20,000 teachers per year in the state of Kerala. It endeavours to enhance the intellectual productivity of teacher and curricular comprehension of students . The project enhance the role of IT as a teaching aid for learning all subject.

4. The project is a nodal agency for all eGovernance activities under General Education Department Also nodal agency for implementing EDUSAT network in the state and runs an exclusive channel for education called VICTERS, was the first complete Educational Channel in India. The first breakthrough of this channel came in 2005 when IT was made compulsory subject in schools and the channel was inaugurated by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on 28 July 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram . In association with BSNL, the project has provide Internet broad band connectivity to all high schools in Kerala.

5. During 2007-2012, IT@School provided ICT infrastructure to 4071 schools. In 2016, it re-initiated the ICT intervention in Lower Primary and Upper Primary sections, by launching exclusive ICT Textbooks viz ; Kalipetti and e@Vidya . As many as 1.50 lakh teachers from std 1 to 12 has been enhanced with ICT skills, making them to teach effectively with ICT tools .

6. IT@School amply supplemented the State Government’s Public Education Rejuvenation Mission with initiatives such as Samagra Content Portal, Sampoorna School Management software and Schoolwiki which are later developed by KITE and SCERT . ‘ Hi School Kuttikootam ’ programme lauched by IT@School under which over 1 lakh students are provided with trainings in 5 different areas such as Animation, Cyber Safety, Hardware, Electronics and Malayalam computing .

7. The project also conducts specialized training for visually challenged teachers in the state. It also provide Camera handling training to the teachers. Apart from this several educational software such as Dr. Geo, Rasmol , K-Tech lab, Geogebra , Chemtool , Kalzium etc are being customized in developing teacher friendly applications for facilitating ICT enabled eduacation in the state.

8. The project also engaged in organising statewide awareness campaign exposing the everyday computer user to the possibilities and advantages. The “Total Physical Fitness Programme ” software provides awareness on physical fitness and it includes the fitness details of 30 lakh of students. Some of the e-governance activities of the project includes the noon meal distribution computerization, youth festival software, pre-metric scholarship online etc.

9. AWARDS National e- goverance award for the best project in 2005 E-India Award in 2008 World is O pen A ward in 2008 Open Document Format Alliance Award in 2009 Kerala State e- goverance Award 2010

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