thiruvananthapuram a total of 56000 high school teachers in kerala will soon get specific training in information technology as part of the state governments general education rejuvenation missionthe training is imparted under the itschool a government initiative to impart it education in schools from may 8 onwardsthe itschool has come up with the teachers training project after the launch of the high tech school project envisaged to digitise 45000 classrooms in staterun schoolsthe highlight of the training would be the practical sessions which focus on the use of information and communications technology ict in classroom transactions said k anvar sadath executive director itschool projectthe threeday training programme focuses on specific activities which help in classroom transactions of teachers such as preparing multimedia presentations collecting digital contents such as text pictures and videos from internet how to make use of such contents to develop content and language computingunlike the routine ictbased training this initiative for teachers is planned to provide subjectwise ict training this year he saidsubject experts and ict experts would jointly provide the training to teachers all subjects including languages are included in the training programme sadath saidthe threeday training would be implemented by utilising over 1100 trainers in 550 centresict learning and training are completely based on free software platformthe training introduces specific activities to design learning process by self and also to formulate contents in the appropriate manner he saidit would be conducted using training modules and econtents which are specifically developed for each subjectarrangements would be made to provide ict training based on screen reading software exclusively for visuallychallenged teachers he saida dedicated team would be assigned to monitor the progress and review the training programmea total of 38000 upper primary teachers had already been provided specific ict training which started from april 8 in four batches the official added