State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Chhattisgarh taking innovative steps under ‘Energised Text Book’ will provide additional educational materials in video, audio, PPT and PDF formats from new academic session.
As per information, educational materials are for class one to class 10th and are of 67 different subjects books, to facilitate teachers and students. Additional to it through mobile phone, by scanning QR Code, additional questions and answers and other information can be obtained related to the subjects. On the books around 3040 QR codes have been marked. Around 2.83 crore such materials have been distributed in the state, claimed SCERT.
With target to provide education to children in their own language, video has been prepared in Halbi, Sargujia, Kururkh, Dantewada Gondi, Kanker Gondi along with Chhattisgarhi. The QR Code linked educational materials are also multilingual.
As per information, these materials are more useful in single teacher schools where the students’ can through these materials seek additional matter apart from their regular text books. It can be used both offline and online, thus is multi-channel. It can be seen in personal computer, mobile phone, tablet and other formats. Digital Infrastructure on Knowledge Sharing (Diksha) portal will provide directives to the teachers also.
For using these text books, anyone can go to playstore and download ‘Diksha’ application and install it in the electronic gadget of use.