45,000
Kerala students to be trained in IT
Tuesday December 21, 2010 06:42:40 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government's IT@School Project starting next week for
six days will impart customised information technoloy training to
45,000 school students.
IT@School, which is the technology arm of the general education
department of the Kerala government, was set up for empowering
schools with latest information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled
education, besides implementing e-governance within the education
department.
The project has recently received 'Honorable Mention' in Stockholm
Challenge Award-2010 and has been considered the world's biggest
ICT deployment in education using free software.
The programme will have two-day training sessions in three batches
in over 750 centres spanning the state's 14 districts.
From each school, a minimum of 10 students from Classes 8 and 9
drawn from government-run, aided and also unaided schools will be
taken for training.
IT@School Project's executive director Anvar Sadath said they
provided specific IT training to 14,821 School Student IT
Coordinators (SSITC) during the last Onam vacations and due to the
positive response from schools, a similar idea of training was
decided.
"The content of a two-day programme includes topics such as how to
solve the technical problems in computers, how to effectively use
internet at schools, various ways to prevent cyber crime, onsite
support for free software applications and maximise use of
Malayalam computing," Sadath said.
The students will also get a real-time experience of several
graphic software, including audio-video editing tools such as
K.D.N. Live and Audacity.
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