Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: Two young teachers- Hilal Ahmad Lone and Ayaz Raina hailing from J&K, today received prestigious awards for “Best ICT Teachers” from NCERT at New Delhi.
The two teachers are among the 43 selected for National Award for Teachers using ICT for Innovation in Education. The award includes a medal, a commemoration, a laptop and a set of 10 DVDs.
Hilal Ahmad Lone resides at Kangan area of Ganderbal and is presently posted at GHSS Kangan. He has been working as Nodal Officer for Aadhaar and is incharge of J&K Knowledge Network for his district whereas Ayaz Raina belongs to Thannamandi area of Rajouri and is posted at BHSS Thannamandi.
Both the teachers are being engaged in various ICT related interventions like NISHTHA, DIKSHA, Knowledge Networks, and Smart Classes etc. They have been striving hard in their respective areas to enhance the teaching learning process in Government schools using ICT interventions. Besides, they have provided enormous trainings to their fellow teachers upon usage of IT Tools in their routine pedagogy in classrooms.
Appreciating the efforts of both the teachers, Sarita Chauhan, Commissioner Secretary, School Education stressed upon entire teaching community to adopt technological and ICT interventions for better transformation of teaching process in Government schools of J&K. She reiterated that teachers should make full use of ICT labs and CAL centres established in schools for imparting education using technology as a tool. She also stressed for use of DIKSHA App extensively in imparting class room lectures.
Anuradha Gupta, Director School Education Jammu, Younis Malik, Director School Education Kashmir and Dr Arun Manhas, State Project Director Samagra Shiksha also lauded the awardees.
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