While not charging any fee for the service, the tech giant Google will help the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in safety trainings at schools. The safety awareness programme with Google will train teachers on latest development that takes place in internet space.
Both will offer a course on 'Digital Citizenship and Safety' in information and communication technology curriculum.
The Union School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said: "Internet can be used to help us;as it has a potential of damaging the social structure and damaging an individual, it is extremely important for us to understand how we can keep ourselves safe.”
The NCERT has curriculum on IT and communication technologies embedded in teachers training programme.The curriculum developed by NCERT in collaboration with Google will be used to train students from class I - class XII across 1.4 million schools in India where they will learn how to become good and responsible digital citizens.
Google India Director, Trust and Safety, SunitaMohanty said: "We have provided NCERT lot of content that were ready with Google, tools and tips about internet use. We also segregated the curriculum into four different areas. We have a different set of programme for different age group."
The Union School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said: "Internet can be used to help us;as it has a potential of damaging the social structure and damaging an individual, it is extremely important for us to understand how we can keep ourselves safe.”
The NCERT has curriculum on IT and communication technologies embedded in teachers training programme.The curriculum developed by NCERT in collaboration with Google will be used to train students from class I - class XII across 1.4 million schools in India where they will learn how to become good and responsible digital citizens.
Google India Director, Trust and Safety, SunitaMohanty said: "We have provided NCERT lot of content that were ready with Google, tools and tips about internet use. We also segregated the curriculum into four different areas. We have a different set of programme for different age group."
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