Jammu, June 18: A three day online orientation cum training workshop organised Directorate of School Education Jammu through its IT cell regarding understanding and usage of DIKSHA concluded today.
DIKSHA is a digital portal providing quality e-content for both students and teachers and is one of the main initiatives of the program “Enhancing technology and Quality of Education” under Atm Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan recently launched by Honb’le Prime Minister of India.
Directoarate of School Education, Jammu colloborated with Jnana Prabhodini, a Maharashtra based organisation which is official partner of MHRD in its initiative of DIKSHA and e-Vidydaan and successfuly conducted a 3 day orientation programme. The programme strated w e f 15th june 2020 aiming to develop the necessary skills for using and understanding DIKSHA platform. In prevailing circumstances the pandemic has drastically reshaped the teaching learning process. During this period a paradigm shift is evident in School Education department.
Speaking on the occasion Director School Education Jammu Ms. Anuradha Gupta said that the use of digital initiatives / platforms is the need of the hour and to get equipped with these initatives shall certainly empower our teachers in handling the challenges better. She also said that the IT cell established at Directorate would continue its endeavor in promoting the digital initiatives of Ministry of HRD like DIKSHA, e-vidya daan, PM e-vidya, etc.
Ms.Anuradha Gupta,Director School Education Jammu further added that the school Education department is committed to bringing the best available resources to the students and teachers as well.
The main highlights of the workshop were introduction about DIKSHA (a digital platform for teachers) techniques used for making e content like Blended learning,simulation and science activities on physics and chemistry through simulations by key resource persons from Jnana Prabhodini , Mr Arnab, Mrs Neerja Deshpandey, Mrs pallavi, prof Ravinder Godbole and prof Abhaya Tol.
Ms Mahwah Goni , State Nodal incharge DIKSHA also delivered a presentation before participants wherein she apprised the participants about the scope and Content creation on DIKSHA and e vidyadan. She also apprised about the work done so far in collaboration with JKBOSE. 44 titles of JKBOSE textbooks are currently energized. The content for Mathematics and Science which has been mapped from NCERT digital Content repository can be accessed via QR Codes placed on JKBOSE Textbooks.
Various participants spoke on the veledictory function who include Mr Pawan vivek DRG kathua, Mr Mehboob Ahmed qazi DRG kishtwar, Mr Nazir Ahmed itoo DRG Ramban and Mohd Anwar Principal HSS Sujwana. All of them hailed the efforts of resource persons from Jnana Prabhodini and appreciated
Director school Education Jammu for providing such online plateform during this critical phase of covid 19. all the speakers requested Director School Education Jammu to conduct such programmes regularly in future also.
At the end vote of thanks to the guest resource persons was presented by Mr sandeep Rathore DRG/DNO kishtwar who was also the technical coordinator of the workshop. The programme was successfully coordinated by Mr Sohail Wani Member , IT Cell DSEJ who has also been nominated as the nodal officer for further collaboration with Janan Prabodhini to strengthen the initiatives taken.
