IIT Delhi begins training teachers of Common Service Centres' Bal Vidyalaya

A training workshop "Design Thinking for ICT enabled Bal Vidyalayas in rural India" - the first in a series -- was organised on the IIT-Delhi campus.

IIT Delhi begins training teachers of Common Service Centres' Bal Vidyalaya to upskill them in technology

With an aim to make teaching fun and impactful for the students, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has begun training the teachers of Common Service Centres' Bal Vidyalaya to upskill them in the technology. 

"Across the globe, curricular and pedagogical attempts are underway to prepare children for the 21st century with relevant contemporary skills. India has also made its move through the new National Education Policy (NEP). However, much effort is needed to implement the core philosophies of universal value-based contemporary education at the ground level as detailed in NEP,” said Jyoti Kumar, Professor of the Department of Design, IIT Delhi. “This workshop is one such effort to help the facilitators of CSC Bal Vidyalayas to develop technology-based creative classroom activities for children," she said. A training workshop "Design Thinking for ICT enabled Bal Vidyalayas in rural India" - the first in a series -- was organised on the IIT-Delhi campus.

A team at IIT Delhi has also developed Augmented Reality (AR)-based content as per the learning outcomes outlined by the NCERT. CSC Bal Vidyalayas - a government of India initiative -- was started in 2020 in the middle of the COVID pandemic, to bridge the digital divide for the poor and underprivileged primary school children from rural India, the press release stated.

Earlier, IIT Delhi third-year computer science student, Kalash Gupta, won the 'World's Best Coder' title and has won prize money of USD 10,000. Gupta emerged on the top of the list of over 1 lakh coders from 87 countries who participated in the tenth season of Code Vita.

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