Government school gets digital makeover

Vijaynagar Colony: Government High School of Vijaynagar Colony provides digital education to the school students with the help of 40 Chrome books and a K-Yan projector which is an innovative solution to bring the benefits of interactive learning to students and teachers throughout the country.

It is the first school in Telangana to get Google for education which is working together with IL&FS foundation to enhance the quality of education in India and facilitate digital learning. Students are taught with the help of K-Yan projectors and each student in the school also get the opportunity to work with chrome books every day. 

Google has also employed a full time engineer in the school Murali Krishna who teaches students and teachers to operate the devices. Krishna said “Chrome books which Google has provided are pretty easy to use when compared to a windows computer and the K-Yan projectors has built in Computer tower, Speakers and Wifi connectivity which makes it a portable device equipped with all features designed for students to learn and teachers to teach.

A ninth class student Sai Ram said “digital class is like watching movies every day we are very excited for digital class every day. We also learn English there, digital class is our favourite class of the day. 

School Principal Suresh Kumar said “since two years we are teaching students using digital devices they are interactive and very helpful for students to understand. Teachers also take help of video lessons to teach students difficult concepts which can be easily understood with the help of these digital learning. 

Students have their own e-mail addresses which they can use to log on to their account which is connected to the server, so that they can access their notes. They are also taught how to make notes share them, look after things online, navigate through the map and almost everything that helps their growth in the field of education and life”. 

He added: ‘We are also the first school to have a robotics lab for students where they can learn the basics of robotics and engineering with the help of miniature equipments using which they can design their own lego robotic models. 

By Mayank Tiwari