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IT education mela to begin today

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR OCT. 22. A major information technology (IT) education programme for high school students, has been organised here jointly by the district panchayat and the Thrissur Corporation from Wednesday as part of the State-level efforts to make the computer-enabled education wide-spread in all schools.

The programme christened `IT Education Mela, 2002, Thrissur', will comprise exhibition of computers, accessories and training materials as well as a demonstration programme for familiarising the students and teachers with the use of computers as tool for education. The Mela forms part of the IT@School Project which was launched at the State-level by the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) in Kasaragod last month.

The DPI has introduced the IT@School Project as part of its efforts to introduce information technology in high schools for qualitative improvement of the conventional teaching/learning system.

Addressing a press conference here today, officials of the education department and those in charge of the project said the IT@School Project envisaged introducing information technology in the education system not only as curricular subject. Instead, it was also aim at empowering the school to undertake computer-enabled education and to usher in a paradigm shift in the conventional pedagogical methodology.

Seminars, exhibitions, and competitions for students, teachers and public will form part of the Mela which is being organised in every district to provoke proven professional development for class rooms and to enable the schools to integrate computers in the existing class-rooms.

Even though most schools have now computers, many of them are remaining unused or underused, because of technical problems with the systems or due to the lack of proper trained personnel. The Government has identified about 18 empanelled agencies which can set up the computer units in the schools with concurrence of the school managements and the PTA.

The Mela will bring the PTAs, the managements, the headmasters, and the empanelled agencies in a common platform and sort out their differences and concerns so that all the schools can have functioning computer laboratories at the earliest. Also it will enable the schools to select the particular empanelled agency which will be able to set a up a computer laboratory suitable to the condition to the respective school.

The three-day Mela to be held at the Government Vocational Higher Secondary School for Girls in the city will conclude on Friday.

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