chennai class 10 and 12 students appearing for their state board exams this academic year have an added feature in their classrooms with advanced integration of information and communications technology ict across schools in tamil naduan information recognition application technology irat based app called tn schools live was developed by the ict cell of scert to help make text book information more demonstrative and interactive using the app on an image or concept in the text book automatically transforms it into a threedimensional live demonstration along with a tutorial in tamil to explain the concepts the app can be used on a phone tablet computer or laptopthe state council of educational research and training scert which implemented the module said that there are a total of 141 concepts in maths and science text books that have been fed into the app we introduced this in classes three months ago and the 141 concepts on a pilot basis have been embedded into the app these concepts are comparatively the more difficult portions said r asir julius assistant professor scertprincipal secretary of school education department d sabitha said that tamil nadu is the first state in the country to have done this she expressed that irat would help students immensely when it comes to understanding concepts we have been integrating ict across schools in the state by developing modules as well as teacher training classroom lectures are available in video format too apart from the 141 modules we are also looking at developing modules for 600 additional topics for classes 6 to 12 further rounds of teacher training will follow she said speaking on the sidelines of a joint seminar organised by the school education department and the academy of korean studies republic of koreascerts julis said that the technological idea of lessons is developed by teachers themselves a total of 1650 teachers have been trained under ict module with 240 teachers having been trained to create the digital content parallel to the textbook contentearlier in the event school education minister k pandiarajan said that the state was keen to forge partnerships with the republic of korea and give students from tamil nadu an opportunity to go to seoul universityhe added that the government was preparing amma science kits and amma maths kits for students which would be made available soon