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700 laptops distributed to students

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PHOTO: K. MANIKANDAN

EAGER LEARNERS: Students of PSBB Millennium School working on their new laptops. —

TAMBARAM: Is it possible for school students to walk into classrooms with a computer that is the size of a notebook?

Recently, a group of chirpy students received a note book-size laptop each as part of a joint initiative by PSBB (Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan) Millennium School, St. Thomas Mount and Educomp, a private company to integrate computers in the daily lives of school students.

A total of 700 laptops were distributed to students of Standard II to VI as part of Educomp’s ‘School one-on-one computing (O3) programme.’

Managing Director of Educomp Solutions Shantanu Prakash said the objective of the programme was to bring computers into the daily lives of students for sharpening their skills in academics and also improve the teacher-student interface.

“We do not intend doing away with the conventional methods of teaching, but the aim is to improve efficiency and effectiveness of collaborative learning,” Mr. Prakash said. The company, which works with schools to implement innovative models to create and deliver content, had worked on the project for about an year and had conducted five pre-launch trials.

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