Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has completed arrangements for providing specific mobile app building training to 30,000 Kuttikootam members of the State during the Christmas vacations.
KITE, earlier IT@School , will conduct a one-day camp for students in different batches from December 27 to 30. It will be a continuation of training of the Kuttikootam members who were trained through the e@Utsav camp during the Onam vacations.
App Inventor, a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) application that enables development of mobile apps through drag-and-drop method, will be made use for the training.
All Class 8 students in the State have been familiarised with Scratch Visual Programming software that is part of their ICT learning.
No hitches
Without hitches of programme coding, students could easily develop mobile applications using this software, by arranging the code blocks that appear in the software.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. is supporting App Inventor.
Through this application, students will be able to learn and prepare the Xmas app that presents an Xmas song on the press of a button, an app that makes sounds as we type, one that facilitates handling media files on a mobile phone, and KITE’s Sites App that helps use various sites of KITE.
Training venues have been set up in all educational districts.
As part of it, all Kuttikootam members would be trained to operate and take care of the hi-tech facilities made available in classrooms, K. Anvar Sadath, Executive Director, KITE, said.
The Hi-School Kuttikootam programme includes over 1 lakh students of Classes 8 and 9 in the State. Students are trained in five domains - animation, hardware, cyber safety, electronics, and Malayalam computing.
