4 Tamil Nadu schools to use Windows tablets as learning aid
Posted on: 29/Jul/2014 12:31:53 PM
Microsoft India today announced that four schools in Tamil Nadu will use Windows tablet computers to teach, a step in the tech major’s drive to get on the technology-enabled learning wave and popularise its products.
Takshila School, which has 10 campuses across the country, will have the Microsoft product at its Ambur campus in the State. GT Aloha Vidya Mandir, Vidhya Sagar Global School, and SJT Surana Jain Vidyalaya & Junior College are also on the wagon.
Microsoft has also begun training programmes to help schools incorporate the tablet computer into their teaching modalities. Chennai-based technology company Harness has built an application that will help teachers keep tabs on what students are watching on the tablet computers. The Harness Handitouch enables a Master tablet — meant for the teacher — to remote control content accessed by students.
The tablet computers can accommodate the NCERT application for information on curricula and policy. Lessons taught in school can be saved on the Microsoft Azure cloud for reference. The plan is to take the schools scheme to 100 institutes this year. Schools have to pay a cost for this.
