LUCKNOW: The education department is mulling to replicate digital literacy, coding and computational literacy program (DLCC) in its upper primary schools. The program is aimed at imparting basic and application-based understanding of coding among students.
In a pilot done in collaboration with HCL Foundation in 26 schools in Hardoi district, it was found students demonstrated a good understanding of basic concepts. “More than 81% of KGBV and 98% of Composite schools’ students completed their application-based assessment, signifying that they are able to apply their understanding of the basic concepts of coding successfully. In fact, children are now making animated movies and coding games,” said Alok Varma, project director – Samuday, HCL Foundation.
The NEP 2020 emphasizes the importance of teaching computing at par with mathematics and science as it promotes problem-solving, computational thinking, and critical reasoning skills. Keeping this in mind, director general school education Vijay Kiran Anand said, “We are working on proposal and only when model is finalised, and we will try to scale up,”
On Wednesday, a state-level workshop was organised to take forward the learnings and deliberate on the scope of replication and scale up across the state.
This digital initiative is aimed at strengthening rural education by introducing computers, basic coding to make students aware of logical thinking, decision making, learning a sense of direction as well as basics of financial intelligence, and business acumen.
The project used block based programming platforms just as scratch to develop students’ understanding of coding concepts and provide opportunities for them to develop a deeper understanding by making projects.
In this program, emphasis was on foundational learning, achieved by teaching basic concepts relevant to students’ lives. The approach aimed to improve students’ engagement and retention of knowledge. To ensure each student could understand and retain the knowledge, basic concepts of coding such as sequencing, distance and direction, algorithms, debugging, loops, were taught using conceptual examples from their own lives.
In a pilot done in collaboration with HCL Foundation in 26 schools in Hardoi district, it was found students demonstrated a good understanding of basic concepts. “More than 81% of KGBV and 98% of Composite schools’ students completed their application-based assessment, signifying that they are able to apply their understanding of the basic concepts of coding successfully. In fact, children are now making animated movies and coding games,” said Alok Varma, project director – Samuday, HCL Foundation.
The NEP 2020 emphasizes the importance of teaching computing at par with mathematics and science as it promotes problem-solving, computational thinking, and critical reasoning skills. Keeping this in mind, director general school education Vijay Kiran Anand said, “We are working on proposal and only when model is finalised, and we will try to scale up,”
On Wednesday, a state-level workshop was organised to take forward the learnings and deliberate on the scope of replication and scale up across the state.
This digital initiative is aimed at strengthening rural education by introducing computers, basic coding to make students aware of logical thinking, decision making, learning a sense of direction as well as basics of financial intelligence, and business acumen.
The project used block based programming platforms just as scratch to develop students’ understanding of coding concepts and provide opportunities for them to develop a deeper understanding by making projects.
In this program, emphasis was on foundational learning, achieved by teaching basic concepts relevant to students’ lives. The approach aimed to improve students’ engagement and retention of knowledge. To ensure each student could understand and retain the knowledge, basic concepts of coding such as sequencing, distance and direction, algorithms, debugging, loops, were taught using conceptual examples from their own lives.
