The IT@School Project undertaken by the Kerala government will be introducing 'Hi School Kuttikootam' (Student IT Club Network) to boost activities and interests of students in ICT enabled learning,
About one lakh students would be covered in the network this academic year itself, thus making it the largest of its kind in the country, officials said.
The number of members is expected to be increased to a minimum of two lakh by next academic year.
Registrations of students will start from tomorrow.
IT@School Project would be implemented on the lines of the Student Police Cadets programme in the state.
"As part of General Education Protection Mission, the Hi-School Student Group programme would be strengthened and the students' participation would be ensured in various activities," Education Minister Prof C Ravindranath, said.
The programmes aims at facilitating an in-depth ICT learning environment for students, to provide students with an experience of group learning as well as collaborative learning, to improve the efficiency of ICT enabled education in schools.
This would ensure students' participation in resolving the technical issues in schools, safe usage of internet and building awareness on cyber crimes etc, a release said.
Students would be empowered to use the multi-faceted scope of ICT through this participative programme.
In addition to this, the programme would also highlight teaching students the importance of language computing, thereby giving the students an opportunity to undertake different language computing programmes.
Students, who are part of the ICT Clubs in schools, would be given specific training in five areas-- Animation and Multimedia, Hardware, Electronics, Language computing and Internet and Cyber Safety.The training would be meticulously monitored by IT@School Project.
A committee would be set-up in schools with the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) President as Chairman and Headmaster as Convener to co-ordinate the school level activities of Hi-School programme.School IT Co-ordinators (SITC) would lead the daily activities of this programme.
The activities of the programme would be executed without affecting any class-timings.
"As many as 1 lakh school students in the State would be part of this programme in this academic year itself and IT@School project would develop a mechanism for these students to provide the awareness and training for other students and parents," K Anvar Sadath, Executive Director, IT@School said.
Various organisations such as Google (Internet Safety), Start-up Mission (Electronics), Swathanthra Malayalam Computing have ensured their support in these activities.
IT@School Project would submit detailed reports for expanding such programmes and also to make use of the Corporate Social Responsibility schemes of various companies.
There are also plans to approach Union government to provide Hardware tools such as tablets to these students under 'Digital India' programme, the release said.
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