Annual Report - National Council Of Educational Research And ...

NCERT
16. Department of Computer
Education and Technological
Aids
It is a major concern of NCERT to integrate the Information
and Communication Technology into school education.
Developing training materials for teacher-educators and
development of syllabus and instructional materials for
students form a key component of the NCERT task in which
it intends to devise models for technology, facilitate
participatory forums and develop web communities having
the same interest.
Developing viable models and appropriate materials to integrate Information and
Communication Technologies into school education is the broad area of activity
of the Department of Computer Education and Technological Aids (DCETA).
Training of teacher educators from states in the use of technology and to enable
them to conduct similar programmes for teachers in the states is the other
important area of activity. The department is also responsible for maintaining an
active website for the Council that offers a forum for discourses on school
education between the educational community and the general public. The
department is also maintaining the IT infrastructure at NIE campus.
At the National Centre for Computer Education of the department the following
activities are undertaken:
� Developing a curriculum guide, syllabus and textbooks for computer related
courses at the senior secondary level;
� Holding training/orientation programmes for teacher educators and teachers
from states and UTs towards basic ICT skills relevant to school education
and the ability to develop ICT-based learning materials for the classroom;
� Conducting training programmes for members of the academic and
administrative staff of the NIE departments of NCERT;