Access to Knowledge through Computer Education

Jiniiya* Ghosh is a student of Class IV in our model school Kishalaya Sishu Siksha Niketan. With her energies and enthusiasm she is easily recognized in the crowd of students. She lost her father a few years back. He was ailing by Cancer since a long time. Her mother Mrs. Tanima* went to New Delhi for better earnings to sustain the family requirements.

With an aspiration to see a strong future Jiniya* was admitted to the model school 3 years back. She is an attentive and good student.

She has special inclinations in Computers. Jiniya* is noticeably progressing in learning lessons in computers. She has scored more than 80% in Computers in the last Summative Evaluation Tests. “I like learning Computers so much. And I wait for the practical classes eagerly.”, says Jiniya*.

She is conversant in creating files, folders and save those properly. She can even lock the created folders with security passwords for keeping those secured. Good in applications like Word Art, Paints etc. She can create Posters and Paint with those. She saved all her creations in a folder named ‘Jiniya* – KSSN’.

In Office applications she is at ease with Words. Thus she can make her own and others ‘Resume’ as well. Very comfortably she can insert ‘Text Box’, ‘Table’ in Words file. Learning gradually she now manages Table applications easily by merging and/or inserting cells, rows etc.

Jiniya* searches her subjects of interest through Internet quiet confidently. She loves looking at her School Premises through ‘Google Earth’. Often she looks at her School Premises through ‘Google Map’.

Once her mother said, “I felt proud and very happy when my daughter shows our house in the smart phone. Only because of the Computers Classes at the School made this possible.”

Thus Jiniya a little girl from remote village of Sunderabans sees the world beyond her surroundings and aspire to see more when grows up with the help of Computers. 

* Names of individuals changed to maintain privacy and safety.

Sampa* Mondal is a student of 4^th Standard in our model school Kishalay Sishu Siksha Niketan (KSSN). Her father Mr. Laltu* Mondal is a daily wage labourer in cultivations at the vicinity and earns on an average only INR 6000.00 per month. With such steep income Sampa’s mother looks at the household core with sheer hardship. Despite struggling hard with financial steepness both of Sampa’s parents dream to see their daughter have a proper modern education with all essential lessons to face the modern competitive world. They are happy to see their daughter budding with all modern essential lessons with Computers under the school curriculum with facilitating Computer Lab.

Though, an average student in book based subjects Sampa has special interest in learning Computers. She is learning various operations fast and very comfortable operation the applications she learns. She can draw various kinds of pictures now- night sky full of stars, village life etc.

Sampa can prepare her Resume fast in the Words application. She can alter Screen Saver and Timer also. She can create folder while use it in a just way.

Internet browsing is a favourite task for Sampa. She tries out searching information of the subjects they learn in the school. She confidently searches locations using the Google Map.

Very pleasantly she says, “One day I’ll buy a Laptop by my own earning.”

* Names of all individuals changed to maintain privacy and security.