Project Jigyasa

With its eyes firm on the mission of providing a truly global standard of Education within the confines of Jaipur city, this is another mammoth step in the right direction. With this project the school aims at completely integrating the most modern tools of Education into the school. This project is to be completed over a period of time.

Some salient features of this project are:

• All the class rooms will be equipped with computers with a large screen. This would help the teachers to explain a number of topics by showing to the class the Audio Visual presentation of the topic being taught to the children without taking the children anywhere outside the class room thus maximizing the understanding level and minimizing wastage of time.

• The children as a part of their assignment will get an opportunity to make their own presentation to the class or other classes. In order to make these presentations they will be provided with internet accesses in the library along with a large pool of other resources and books. This not only hones their skills of presentation and expression in the most modern media but also gives them an opportunity to widen their perspective and do research in depth.

• A separate editing and School Educational Resource Department has been set up in consultation with the teachers and the Academic Supervisors to construct and purchase other software required for Computer Aided Learning.

• This will provide the teachers with an opportunity to update their lesson plans with sister schools situated across the globe in the U.S.A, Australia and the United Kingdom.

• The entire staff is connected by an internal network that lets all of them communicate with each other and the Principal with the help of a few keys. Staff can even have discussion over internal newsgroup concerning any topic. The parents coming to the school for a query could just punch in the keys and would be answered by the concerned staff over a live network.

• All the children’s records would be maintained by the class teachers on the computers and would be passed online to the next class teacher.

• The students are linked for their projects over these networks with Schools world wide, some even have live networks to exchange ideas and other inputs in order to make their projects.

• Their would be an in-house news network along with the weather reports made and telecast live by the children for national and international news and other important ideas. This will not only benefit the children to understand the issues surrounding all of us but also give the children an opportunity to analyze and discuss the issues as they see them.

In the final phase of project Jigyasa the school hopes to virtually link the school over video conferencing to various countries and a variety of meaningful debates will then be possible at different levels, starting with kindergarten teachers from around the world to children interaction from Grade 1 to 12. The children would have live debates across the world, see and analyze the work of children worldwide. ‘It’s all about different ideas and a fertile breeding ground for the imagination of the children and the sky is the limit,’ says one school staff.

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International Ecology Project

We at Neerja Modi School have embarked upon a very ambitious program - The IEP. The main objective behind it is to share with the world community our concern and commitment towards our immediate environment. The program involves an inter-disciplinary curriculum including both “hands” on science and ecology activities and internet component to enable students to take advantage of the information super highway. In fact, our highway will be international, taking us all the way to Harkar School in California, USA and the Tamagama School, in Tokyo, Japan.

We believe that common goals and co-operative learning will unite the schools in order to enhance science and technology education and above all to make friends.

The students have set project partners and schools abroad are already exchanging their ideas views and concerns about their environment through e mails. This project has enabled our students to effectively communicate their views on the social and educational, values of trees. Why are trees important? What is the effect of trees on one’s health?

Siddharth of VII standard feels strongly about issues concerning the environment and wishes to share the fact that trees produce enough oxygen each acre for 19 people every day.

Swati of VII has some startling facts regarding trees. She feels that nature can remove up to 48 pounds of CO2 from air every year and an acre of mature trees can transpire 600 tones of water per day and help prevent droughts.

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