Vidwath Innovative Solutions, a city-based company, has developed a smart class kit for students of Classes 1 to 10. One of the features of the kit is digitalised, animated versions of all subject material. The kit comes in three languages — Kannada, English and Urdu — in order to cater to more students across the State.

Rohit M. Patil, managing director and chief executive officer of Vidwath, and Venugopal Rangaraju, the chief operating officer, told The Hindu on Friday that after working for three years straight with a team of over 35 software engineers, technicians and subject experts, they had managed to prepare digitalised and animated versions of all the lessons.

The lessons have been designed in such a way that students can easily grasp the ideas by actually seeing their representation instead of having to imagine them. For example, if a science teacher wants to explain the human heart or a rocket to students, he or she can just show them on screen and teach.

The kit includes a multi-touch interactive board, which is just like a touchscreen monitor. Even students can use the interactive board and open math tools like compass to draw diagrams on the screen.

According to Vidwath, there is great demand for their product and over 700 schools across Karnataka have already bought it. Of the 700 schools, 500 are Urdu schools.

Besides this, for many schools in rural areas, where backward class students are in large numbers, Vidwath has not only supplied the kit free of cost but has also appointed a tutor to teach the concept of ‘smart teaching’ to the teachers.

Mr. Venugopal said they have used high-end software and hardware to make the kits, which has all the lessons in 3-D. Mr. Patil said he plans to hold discussions with the higher-ups in the Education Department soon to make this “first-of-its-kind” kit available in all government schools. They also said Vidwath had supplied smart class kits to schools in Mysuru with children with hearing and speech disabilities.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by H.S.Narasimha Kumar / Mysuru – February 27th, 2016