The Hindu 07.01.2015
Digital classrooms in city
The Coimbatore Corporation has readied four modern,
digital classrooms with computers, internet connection and electronic
equipment in as many schools to improve teaching-learning experience.
This could well arrest the declining student strength in schools, said Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan.
Resolution
As
per a resolution the Corporation had passed around four months ago, the
Corporation had spent Rs. 1 crore to also install interactive boards in
the classrooms, where students would get to see modules the teachers
had prepared on various topics in textbooks.
The Corporation would supplement the audio-visual modules with those available in the public domain, he added.
The
civic body had established the classrooms in its schools on Oppanakara
Street, in Selvapuram, Udayampalayam, P.N. Pudur, and Peelamedu.
Extension
In
phases, it would extend the facility to other middle and high schools,
where students in classes six to nine would benefit by using the
facility at least twice a week.
The classes would start this week, said the Commissioner.
The
Corporation had taken up the digital classroom project after it found
success in the project at the Maniakarampalayam School, where it had
partnered with American India Foundation and Dell, for what was called
the Digital Equaliser Programme.
In the four schools there were around 1,000 students who would benefit .