IT@SCHOOL
in IT@School was
formed in 2001, as a Project under the General Education Department, to
inculcate IT activities in Higher School sections in the State. The first
breakthrough of IT@School came in 2005 when Information Technology was made a
compulsory subject in Std 10. The launch of EDUSAT operations and broadband
connectivity to schools commenced since then, the VICTERS channel operated by IT@School was the first Complete Educational
Channel in the Country. By effectively making use of the Centrally sponsored
‘ICT at School ‘scheme, IT@School provided ICT infrastructure to 4071 schools
during 2007- 2012. In 2016, IT@School re-initiated the ICT intervention in
Lower Primary and Upper Primary sections, by launching exclusive ICT Textbooks
viz; Kalipetti and e@Vidya.
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), formerly
IT@School Project, was formed in 2001-02 to fuel ICT enabled education in the
schools in the State. IT@School was transformed in to KITE in August 2017.KITE is the first SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) Company of the Education Department
of the State. KITE also became the first SPV to get funded by Kerala
Infrastructure and Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the apex body
for monitoring all the projects envisaged by the Govt. The hitherto scope of
General Education Sector has now been extended further with KITE being
positioned to fuel ICT support to Higher Education sector also including Arts
& Science, Engineering colleges and Universities.
IT@School amply supplemented the State Government’s Public Education
Rejuvenation Mission with initiatives such as Samagra Content Portal, Sampoorna
School Management software and SchoolWiki which
connects 15,000 schools for collaborative content development process. A major
recent highlight of IT@School was the ‘Hi School Kuttikootam’ programme under which over 1 lakh students are being provided
specialized trainings in 5 different areas such as Animation,
Cyber Safety, Hardware, Electronics and Malayalam computing.
REFERENCES
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https://education.kerala.gov.in › kiteitschool-project
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