Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the technology wing of the General Education Department, Government of Kerala, has launched the E-Cube Hindi Language Lab, designed to simplify Hindi learning for school students. Minister for General Education, V Sivankutty, inaugurated the platform on Wednesday.

This initiative builds on the success of KITE's award-winning E-Cube English Language Lab, introduced in schools in 2022. The new Hindi language lab is part of the high-tech school project aimed at promoting multilingual education. Minister V Sivankutty said that the platform uses Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) and can be accessed on existing school laptops without any additional cost.

The E-Cube Hindi Language Lab is organised into three levels: Level 1 for Grade 5, Level 2 for Grade 6, and Level 3 for Grade 7 students. 

The platform offers logins for students, teachers, and headteachers. By logging in, students can access five units where they can engage in game-based interactive activities to listen to stories, speak, read, write, and create linguistic discourses.

This enables students to receive hands-on experience in listening, speaking, reading, and writing with the help of the software.

Students can save the activities and products completed using the language lab on their computers. This can be reviewed at any time by students, teachers, and headteachers.

The software also has a feature to record and save students' voices in audio and video formats. Students can also record animated conversations to speak Hindi confidently in real-life situations.

The creative products completed by the students are stored on computers. Students, teachers, and headteachers can review these at any time.

By logging in as a teacher, teachers can view the activities completed by each student, evaluate them, and provide support for improvement. Teachers and headteachers can monitor the learning progress of each student and provide feedback through the teacher login and headteacher login.

"Like the E-Cube English Language Lab, KITE will also provide the 'language lab' on all primary school laptops and provide training to teachers," said K Anvar Sadath, CEO, of KITE.

ANI