- IT Concepts and General Awareness
- Typing Skills
- 21st Century Job Skills
- 21st Century Everyday Life Skills
- 21st Century Study Skills
- 21st Century Citizenship Skills
- Cyber Security Skills
- Go Green
- Netiquettes
- Ergonomics
Course Parity with International Standards
The types of skills covered in IT are – 21st century everyday life-skills, citizenship skills, study skills, job skills along with technical knowledge of operating system/s, MS Office tools, LibreOffice tools and other useful mobile apps and websites that are mapped to the following international IT literary standards:
| Sr. No. | International IT Literacy Standards |
|---|---|
| 1 | California Common Core Standards (CCCS) |
| 2 | National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS) |
| 3 | Northstar Digital Literacy Standards (NDLS) |
| 4 | Microsoft Office Standards (MOS) |
Who Should Join
- Students and Graduates: Individuals aiming to build a strong foundation in IT to enhance their academic and career prospects.
- Job Seekers: Those preparing for employment opportunities requiring basic to intermediate IT proficiency.
- Working Professionals: Employees seeking to upgrade their IT skills to improve workplace efficiency and adaptability.
- Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners: Individuals looking to leverage IT tools for business operations, communication, and management.
- Homemakers and Retirees: Individuals interested in acquiring IT skills for personal development, communication, and daily life applications.
- Individuals Preparing for Competitive Exams: Candidates seeking to strengthen their IT knowledge as part of exam preparations.
- Non-IT Professionals: Individuals from various fields aiming to gain IT literacy to enhance their professional capabilities.
What you’ll learn ?
In 21st century, most of the new actionable knowledge has delivered digitally. It is stored, presented, distributed, accessed, archived and managed digitally too. It only seems natural that it has become an essential part of one’s personal, professional and social life. It has also transformed the way of living in 21st Century. It attempts to propagate it through IT Awareness, Literacy, Functionality and Applicability among the common people with a view to bridge the Digital Divide and the resultant Knowledge Divide and Development Opportunity Divide. This surely makes a positive impact on one’s job-readiness, social behavior and ultimately boosts the self-confidence, enables him/her to work effectively in the 21st Century workplace.
Academic Approach
The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:
- Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
- Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
- Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
- Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
- Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
- Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
- Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
- Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
- Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
- Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
- Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
- Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
Software Tools
| Sr. No. | Tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating System and Internet | ||
| 1 | Windows 10 |  |
| 2 | Internet |  |
| 3 | Google Chrome |  |
| Word Processor | ||
| 4 | MS Word 2019 |  |
| 5 | Google Docs |  |
| Spreadsheet | ||
| 6 | MS Excel 2019 |  |
| 7 | Google Sheets |  |
| Presentation Graphics | ||
| 8 | MS PowerPoint 2019 |  |
| 9 | Google Slides |  |
| Personal Information Manager | ||
| 10 | MS Outlook 2019 |  |
| 11 | Gmail Inbox |  |
| Essentials | ||
| 12 | Ergonomics |  |
| 13 | Go Green |  |
| 14 | Netiquettes |  |
| 15 | Cyber Security Skills |  |