{"id":15467,"date":"2013-12-26T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15467"},"modified":"2013-12-26T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:06:46","slug":"brain-house-for-a-smarter-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/brain-house-for-a-smarter-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain House: For a smarter classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> Trivandrum City Corporation is all set to implement <strong>state-of-the-art smart classrooms for science stream students<\/strong> in select government schools by launching an ambitious project, \u2018<strong><em>Brain House<\/em><\/strong>\u2019. The system will help schools that are lagging behind in digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>A total of Rs.15 lakh has been allocated for the Brain House project. Since setting up a single digital classroom costs Rs.3 lakh, only 5 schools will be covered in the first phase. The equipment, including CPU, projector, interactive whiteboard, green board for writing, speakers and other accessories will be supplied by Keltron. Keltron will also provide software support with its in-house product called \u2018Technext,\u2019 which can be customised for different classes.<\/p>\n<p>The contents for teaching are organised in a hierarchical structure with each chapter broken down into various modules. Each module will have a run time of 6 minutes. For lower age groups, the modules are character-based and for the higher age groups, modules will be more content focused. It comes with many features such as NextStudio, an interactive whiteboard software, NextDictionary, a digital dictionary, and NextTools, a collection of tools such as graphs, pH indicator, equation balancer and periodic table. It also has an extensive library of over 10,000 images.<\/p>\n<p>The entire system is based on the Linux operating system which makes it comparatively stable and virus free. Brain House is designed in a user-friendly way so that teachers without much knowledge of computers can operate it.<\/p>\n<p>Though the system is currently limited to students in the science stream, it could be customised to cater to students from humanities and commerce streams too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Trivandrum City Corporation is all set to implement state-of-the-art smart classrooms for science stream students in select government schools by launching an ambitious project, \u2018Brain House\u2019. The system will help schools that are lagging behind in digital infrastructure. A total of Rs.15 lakh has been allocated for the Brain House project. Since setting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}