MAPUSA
Stressing the need to use technology to enhance the abilities of students, Deputy Speaker and Mapusa MLA Joshua D’Souza on Wednesday said the teachers will have to face challenges to bridge the gap between the traditional curriculum and the new curriculum of coding, robotics and computer syllabus.
“We know how smartphones have helped us, especially during the Covid times. For many people, it was difficult. But the young ones have taken maximum advantage and made it difficult for even teachers today. They have surpassed in many spheres. In fact, the students know more than the teachers. It is good but it also has drawbacks,” D’Souza said.
The Deputy Speaker was speaking as the Chief Guest at an event to showcase ICT equipment supplied to various beneficiary schools covered under the CARES Scheme and Training at Saraswat Vidyalaya High School, Mapusa.
Director of Directorate of Education Shailesh Zingde, Director SCERT Nagaraj Honnekeri, Project Director, Project Management Unit Vijay Borges were also present.
Representatives of the school management, head of schools, officials of various government departments and industry representatives were also present.
Continuing, D’Souza said teachers should work to be a link between the students and the technology that is available today.
“It’s the most challenging time for teachers. There is the traditional curriculum and there is this new curriculum where you will have to work with all sensitivity on how to bridge the two together. We can use technology to enhance the abilities of students,” he said.
The government introduced Coding and Robotics Education in Schools (CARES) scheme in the State since 2021 with a vision to help students acquire problem-solving, computational thinking and design thinking skills at the middle-level school education.
To achieve the objectives of the scheme, the then-existing computer subject was revamped into a revised ICT curriculum, comprising two parts “ Regular Curriculum and Elective Curriculum.
Regular curriculum is mandatory for all the students of Classes 6, 7 and 8 and is delivered by existing computer teachers while Elective Curriculum is for interested students of Classes 6, 7 and 8 and is delivered by specially recruited teachers for Goa fellows who are professionals with Information Technology background.
Further, to aid the implementation of the revised ICT curriculum, existing computer labs of schools are upgraded thereby providing computing devices to 435 government and government-aided schools covered under the scheme.
“We know how smartphones have helped us, especially during the Covid times. For many people, it was difficult. But the young ones have taken maximum advantage and made it difficult for even teachers today. They have surpassed in many spheres. In fact, the students know more than the teachers. It is good but it also has drawbacks,” D’Souza said.
The Deputy Speaker was speaking as the Chief Guest at an event to showcase ICT equipment supplied to various beneficiary schools covered under the CARES Scheme and Training at Saraswat Vidyalaya High School, Mapusa.
Director of Directorate of Education Shailesh Zingde, Director SCERT Nagaraj Honnekeri, Project Director, Project Management Unit Vijay Borges were also present.
Representatives of the school management, head of schools, officials of various government departments and industry representatives were also present.
Continuing, D’Souza said teachers should work to be a link between the students and the technology that is available today.
“It’s the most challenging time for teachers. There is the traditional curriculum and there is this new curriculum where you will have to work with all sensitivity on how to bridge the two together. We can use technology to enhance the abilities of students,” he said.
The government introduced Coding and Robotics Education in Schools (CARES) scheme in the State since 2021 with a vision to help students acquire problem-solving, computational thinking and design thinking skills at the middle-level school education.
To achieve the objectives of the scheme, the then-existing computer subject was revamped into a revised ICT curriculum, comprising two parts “ Regular Curriculum and Elective Curriculum.
Regular curriculum is mandatory for all the students of Classes 6, 7 and 8 and is delivered by existing computer teachers while Elective Curriculum is for interested students of Classes 6, 7 and 8 and is delivered by specially recruited teachers for Goa fellows who are professionals with Information Technology background.
Further, to aid the implementation of the revised ICT curriculum, existing computer labs of schools are upgraded thereby providing computing devices to 435 government and government-aided schools covered under the scheme.
