Taking the “Smart City Project” one step further, from the upcoming Session 2016-17, students studying at the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) schools will be able seek “Smart classroom and e-learning programme” through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) intervention. In the first phase, the “smart classroom and e-learning project” will be operational from Class VI to XII.
The council is aiming to float RFP model for 30 NDMC schools in which 444 classes will be converted into smart classes. One of the Pan-City projects under the Smart City Proposal is to provide Smart Educational services through the Smart Classrooms.
The project will also focus on enhancing sports infrastructure, 360 value evaluation performances of the teachers and identifying mentors for the students, such as senior citizens who can guide the students.
Explaining the “smart classroom project”, Naresh Kumar, Chairman of NDMC said, “We aim to provide our students the smart education through e-learning solution in all NDMC schools by mentoring programme, centralised students e-Health records and skill development.” The smart learning project will reduce student drop-out and improve knowledge detention through leveraging e-learning, he added.
While revamping the existing sports infrastructure and developing new ones in the next few months, council wants to encourage children to participate in sports activities. Sports related activities such as hockey, basketball, tennis, badminton, boxing and football will be taught trained professional. Places like Shivaji Stadium, grounds will be utililsed for the sports activities.
“We want to provide qualitative education to our 26,000 students studying in NDMC schools, so we are trying to use ICT intervention which can improve the quality of inputs being imparted and which may enhance the learning outcomes in the students,” said Chanchal Yadav, secretary NDMC. Smart classes will have projectors, computers and web-based e-learning content. The project will be operational by July, 2016, she added.
With computers, interactive white boards, short-throw projectors and other hardware/software, students can avail the syllabus of NCERT in the digital form along with the study material being provided in bilingual form in Hindi and English.
For Senior Secondary students, all question banks, practice material, standard lessons, inter-active material, including flowcharts to unfold contexts in a layered manner, last ten years examination papers etc. will be provided in the digital form. The repository of Health record of all students would be maintained electronically for monitoring their health on regular basis.
The Pioneer was first to report that NDMC has asked all the teachers to improve their standard of teaching in order to enhance the quality of education in schools run by the civic body.