As part of its initiative to ensure that benefits of Information Technology and computer education percolate down to the grassroots, the Delhi Government is all set to launch a Computer Aided Learning (CAL) project in association with Ernst and Young (E&Y), in 200 government-run schools to convert the normal classroom into multimedia classroom from August 10.
This is part of the initiative by the Education Department to bridge the gap between the children studying in government schools and those who pass out from public schools.
The objective of the project is to reduce the dropout rate from sixth standard onwards as the trend has been that a large number of students after completing their primary education in MCD schools till fifth standard are not able to reach the government schools for various reasons.
Under the new multimedia facility, lessons would be imparted through animated forum making it easy to learn and easy to explain. The Education Department is of the view that this will help generate interest of the students in the subjects and help concentrate in the classroom learning inciting them to attend classes regularly. In Computer Aided Learning, the teacher through a CD would teach the content.
The programme contains numerous self-generating exercises and question banks both subjective and objective. This will also make the government school children literate right from sixth standard and encourage usage of computers and related material.
The E&Y consultants have agreed to provide all the hardware required for implementing the CAL project for all the schools in the pilot project and would also maintain the same.
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