To mark the one year success of 'Punjab Educare App', which has virtually galvanized the school teachers to transform the unprecedented challenge posed by the COVID-19 by ensuring best efforts in utilization of the latest digital application to reach out to the students, is all set for a new look.
Krishan Kumar, Secretary School Education, while lauding the innovative initiative of teachers, said that the Department had chalked out a comprehensive project to update the "Punjab Educare App" with more user-friendly innovations.
"A team of dedicated computer teachers having exclusive expertise in such distinctive areas, has been striving hard to add new features to make the App more student oriented as well as focused on interactive learning", he added.
He said that the Education Department has adopted digital routes likeTV/ Radio Channels, What's App, Google Classrooms, YouTube etc to reach out tothe students during lockdown period but it involved some teething troubles andboth the teachers and students have beenfacing problems in locating relevant uploads.
Therefore, with a view to give fillip to "Online Education", the EducationDepartment launched an innovative initiative in the form of “Punjab EducareApp" on July 11, 2020, he said, adding that now, thestudy material for the students from Pre primary to 12th is just a click awayfor the teachers and students.
“Punjab Educare App, during its first year has takengreat strides to cater to the need, hope and aspiration of the students to havean easy and hassle free access to the study material. Though in its infancy, ithas achieved a distinctive 4.4 out of 5 rating. There are 40,90,021 users,3,47,23,772 sessions, 34,75,95,133 pageviews and 24,00,329 downloads of the App so far. The students belonging to other states and UTs,including New Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan,Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttrakhand are also using this user-friendly,easily accessible and easily navigated App”, said DEO Jalandhar.
He said it seems incredible that a team of schoolteachers from Jalandhar, having no IT background as well as expertise supporthave initially developed "Punjab Educare App" with their sheerdedication coupled with indigenous innovations. The school teachers are Deepak Kumar, Jaswinder Singh, Harjit Kumar,Haridarshan Singh, Chander Shekhar, Omeshwar Narayan.
Teachers further said that the "Punjab Educare App”is a one stop solution to the problems of accessibility of the study material. “Itprovides systematically arranged study material including text books, audio /video lessons, and daily assignments in all the subjects. It is a user-friendlyapp and puts an end to the worry of losing useful study material that is beingprovided by the education department on a daily basis. It is an additional toolfor the teachers and students. Theteachers and students can have hassle free access to the syllabus, text booksin PDF form, audio / video lectures, worksheets, assignments, word wallactivities, quizzes, S.St. Lab, features of smart schools, study material forcompetitive examinations including NTSE, NMMS, PSTSE”.
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Besides, it helps both teachers and students torecapitulate any topic whenever they want. Besides, new features are beingadded as per the requirement emerging from time to time.
Moreover, with a view to making its officials andteachers well versed in the use of the advanced IT applications, the PunjabEducation Department has launched a “Capacity Building" programme foraccelerating the pace of qualitative improvement in education. Under it, aseries of webinars for imparting on line training to the officials and teacherswere organised.