IT@School at a Glance

Number of High schools in the State
Government
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996
Aided
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1407
Unaided
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374
Panchayath
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21
Total
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2798
The Uniqueness of IT @ School Project
Winner of National e-governance award 2006 for exemplary leadership and ICT achievements.
Government made IT, a compulsory subject in school curriculum. About 40000 computers have been supplied to the schools by the Government.
The first State to conduct compulsory IT theory and Practical examination in SSLC examination (4.72 lakh children)
Nearly 16 lakh students per year benefited in acquiring the IT skills. Manpower includes 161 Mater trainers and about 5600 IT coordinators to attend the IT needs of school
Training imparted to all high school teachers. About 60, 000 teachers trained in IT
IT Mela introduced in state to encourage IT initiatives among students and teachers
Hardware made available in a totally decentralized way – providing assistance under LAD funds of MP/MLAs, Local Self Governments, Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs), Old students, philanthropists et al.
IT@School project had developed its own OS in Linux in association with Free Software foundation namely IT@School Linux The platform of IT education completely shifted from WINDOWS to non proprietary software – Linux
Infrastructure development in schools by undertaking supply of solar panels , Generator, multimedia rooms etc to schools.
Introduction of EDUSAT network and ViCTERS channel- the first and only education channel in Kerala.
EDUSAT initiatives
The project is the nodal agency for implementing Edusat initiatives in Kerala
The project runs two channels of EDUSAT one- Interactive channel and other non interactive channel namely ViCTERS
There are a total of 95 Satellite Interactive Terminals (SITs) and full fledge utilization of interactive network
ROTs (Receive Only Terminal) supplied in all 1400 schools for reception of ViCTERS channel.
ICT initiatives
Steps being taken for establishing multimedia rooms in every school.
Focus towards IT enabled teaching. The project has developed for physics and mathematics for standard 9. The first phase of the try out of these initiatives has already been completed in selected high schools. Full scale implementation by next year.
Full scale HS survey and UP survey completed collecting the minutest details.
Broad band connection to all high schools. This scheme expected to be completed by June 2007.
The project recognized as the nodal agency for implementing e- governance initiatives with in the department.
Activities Pipelined
Establishment of General education management portal
UP and HSS roll out
Major e-governance initiatives like:
Noon-meal computerization –to analyze all the intricacies in noon meal scheme from top to bottom. Piloting of the scheme already started in Palakkad and Kozhikode
Child Census data entry support – the activity was initiated by SSA. The project provided the technical support for implementing the scheme.
Staff Fixation software – To analyze the staff fixation pattern in accordance with students ratio for the past 10 years and also to help in future staff fixation.
Model Residential school teacher deployment monitoring – To analyze the quality and monitoring of model residential schools.
TTC admission computation
Youth festival software – Software to help and coordinate various programmes in youth festival
Staff transfer and posting software – Software to help in staff posting and transfer.
Efforts to roll out ViCTERS as a 24*7 educational channel and to telecast it through local cable network