Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), a division of the state’s General Education Department, has introduced an innovative platform aimed at enhancing the learning experience for students studying Hindi. The E-Cube Hindi Language Lab, officially inaugurated by Minister for General Education V Sivankutty, aims to make language learning enjoyable and accessible.
This initiative follows the success of the E-Cube English Language Lab, which has been in operation since 2022. The Hindi language platform is part of a broader effort under the high-tech school project to promote multilingual learning using Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS). It is designed to be compatible with existing school laptops, incurring no additional costs.
Minister V Sivankutty said that the E-Cube Hindi Language Lab, which is entirely developed using Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), can be used by students on existing laptops in school without any additional cost or device.
The E-Cube Hindi Language Lab is segmented into three levels: Levels 1, Levels 2 and Levels 3, corresponding to grades 5, 6, and 7, respectively. The platform offers logins for students, teachers and headteachers. Students can access five units to engage in game-based interactive activities to listen to stories, speak, read, write, and create linguistic discourses by logging in. 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. Students, teachers, and headteachers can review this at any time.
The software also has a feature to record and save students’s 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 each student’s learning progress and provide feedback through the teacher login and headteacher login.
K Anvar Sadath, CEO of KITE, shared his thoughts about the initiative:
Like the E-Cube English Language Lab, KITE will also provide the ‘language lab’ on all primary school laptops and train teachers.
KITE is a government-owned company that supports, encourages, and implements the modernization of Kerala’s state-owned or government-aided educational institutions. The organization strives to address information and communication technology, capacity building, content development, connectivity, e-learning, satellite-based education, support and maintenance mechanisms, e-governance, and other related operations. Its mission is to turn Kerala into a knowledge society by improving educational quality through inclusive, sustainable, and technology-enabled interventions.
