Coimbatore: Learning to be more interesting and enjoyable in the past month for the S Roshan, a sixth grade student of secondary school No 4 Veerapandi government in near Periyaancenickepalayam.
Audio-visual contents short of the text book lessons with a compelling narrative through short stories get him involved with the people.
This can happen due to kalvi40, educational mobile app, available in Google Play for free.
This application was developed by Bumblib Trust, a nonprofit organization, with the aim to empower teachers and students of Tamil medium government schools in rural areas.
Apart from the academic content, KALVI40 own puzzles, short stories, origami, and many more activities and this is an ad-free application.
As schools in Veerapandi, 16 other rural government schools throughout the district Coimbatore using KALVI40, which has academic content in audio and visual format.
Master said that aided his own mobile application aims to bring out the best of the students and ensure the best study patterns.
E Vanaja, Principal Devayampalayam Panchayat Union School, said this application offers online practice tests and test timer.
This helps students to prepare for competitive exams and manage their time in the exam.
“Content created to make learning easy and consumption for children in government schools,” said G Prem Kumar, founder Bumblb Trust.
A former techie who quit his job to work for government school students, Prem said many students stop learning during a pandemic because they are unable to obtain access to the self-learning content.
She decided to work for children as it is to create audio-visual contents are simple and attractive from the school from class III to class VIII.
More than 600 volunteers from around the world contribute content for the application.
State Text Book Comes with a QR code and anyone can see the audio-visual content using smart phones, but many students who just have bad internet connectivity can not access the videos for each video size exceeds 50 MB, says Prem.
Prem adds that any audio-visual content offered through KALVI40 less than three minutes.
“About 95% of the video is less than 5 MB, which students in rural areas with poor connectivity can also access.” This application can be accessed through the television with the help of a device that costs about Rs 5,000.
Tim KALVI40 mingle funds from voluntary groups to offer the device free of cost to the school so that students can be taught through this after the school reopened on November 1 had planned to take applications for the 200 schools in 1,200 schools in 1,200 schools in 1200 Regency Coimbatore in the coming days.