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Textbooks with QR codes have been superb for the school students of TN
Posted on: 21/Dec/2018 10:55:38 AM
In the state of Tamil Nadu, textbooks with QR or quick response codes were launched for the students of classes one, six, nine and eleven. These QR coded textbooks have taken the interest of the students to another level now. Many students feel confident because of these textbooks with QR codes. It is now said that the performance of the students have improved hugely by these textbooks. This has made both students and their parents very happy.
A class eleven student of Government Girls Higher secondary school expressed her happiness regarding the textbooks with QR codes. She spoke about how she used to find the subject of Chemistry very tough and how these new energised textbooks carrying QR or quick response codes have improved her performances in the examination. The important point is the students have been able to access quality content online and this has made QR codes a great success. It has been 6 months since textbooks with QR codes first came into being and there have been more than 2 crore scans and more than 1 crore downloads done. In other states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan textbooks with QR codes were launched and when compared to these states, the scans and downloads in TN were highest. It is well known that it was the school education department that coined the name ‘Energised textbooks’. The important point to note is the information provided by these energised textbooks were many.
The contextualised content in the form of audio and video were accessible by means of codes placed below lessons. By installing DIKSHA app or any other external QR code scanner app, both the students as well as the teachers could get more information. Getting linked to audio, video content or worksheets at the DIKSHA repository is possible by this. According to R. C. Saraswati, principal of Government Girls Higher secondary School, Ashok Nagar, the fear amongst the students have gone down now with the textbooks having QR codes. There is a change in the manner in which the students approach subjects like chemistry, biology, Tamil and mathematics etc. The officials belonging to school education department have pointed out that atleast 4000 QR codes have been placed in the textbooks in the state of TN for the benefit of the students.
Mr. Satheesh, state coordinator, DIKSHA and digital assessment, spoke about how more than 36 lakh students have been using these QR coded textbooks and how in the next year these textbooks would also be launched for classes like two, seven, ten and twelve. There were some complaints from the teachers belonging to the government and private matriculation schools regarding the non-functioning of QR codes in maths and biology textbooks. It is now said that these complaints would be looked into. According to Mr. Shanmugavelayutham, convenor, TN-FORCES, the authorities need to train more teachers as many are not aware of the technology. All the teachers have been trained to use the QR codes even before the launch. This was later confirmed by the officials.
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