A Hyderabad- based company working on learning technologies, unveiled Edutor Advantage, a first of its kind hand held interactive learning device, for students from std III to X. the touch screen device comes with preloaded class specific curriculum- aligned content that is easy for students to understand.Equipped with audio, video and animated content, the device offers course material in social studies, mathematics, science and English, cricket, yoga and karate, spoken English content and Wikipedia on the extra -curriculum activities front.
Students could opt for self assessment with inbuilt pratice tests and questions so that they could take corrective action. Edutor advantage, according to its developers, is tailor-made to suit students, requirements and will not allow distraction as it does not require any Internet connectivity. The instrument has been designed in such a way material except the custom- built solution developed by the company.The handheld instrument is priced ar Rs 5,845, and the content will cost another Rs 1,635. The company will update the content every year in line with the changes in the education curriculum and students can upgrade the content as they enter higher classes. The company is planning to release a similar solution for the Indian certificate of secondary education(ICSE), the International General Certificate of secondary Education (IGCSE) and the SSC in the coming months.
Prof. John Kurakar
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