1. What is IT Kids?

IT Kids is a  computer based learning system for the children in the age group 4 to 14.

2. Who is behind the project IT Kids?

3. What do you teach?

Word Processing, Programming, Spreadsheets, Multimedia and Telecommunication.

We do have an equal focus on academics also like language arts, Social studies, Science and Mathematics. In short, they are learning how to make use of the enormous power of this computer as a productive tool to help them in their academic studies.

Young World - One Year Program

	6 modules
	One hour per week
	42 weeks or 42 hours program
	Covering all the technology areas

Camps - Short term programs

	Duration: 12-15 days
	Focus on one or more technology areas

Course for Housewives

Specific courses for End Users

School Programs

4. Features of the curriculum

	Thematic
	Fun Filled
	Project Oriented
	Age appropriate
	Focus on technology as well as Academics
	Incorporates a definite set of learning objectives
	Employs the best software titles in the market, after extensive research
	Updated & changed every year
	Designed by a team of highly qualified professionals comprising      academicians, educationists and child Psychologists.

5. Timing

Evening 3-7 on weekends.

Throughout the day on weekends.

6. Conveyance

We don’t provide any conveyance.

7. Implementation?

Normally, a child who enrolls for the one year program goes through the whole module, by by the end of which he/she will be able to master all the technology areas in an age appropriate way. If he she enrolled in the middle if the course, he/she will go through the modules of young world and will be carried on to the rest of the modules of the next academic year curriculm. In short, by the end of the one-year program, he/she will be able to master all the nine technology areas in an age appropriate way.

8. Scheduling

The grade classification is as follows:

	Grades KG-11
	Grades 1-3
	Grades 4-6
	Grades 7-10

In actual practice, the curriculum implementation is for a particular age group. Even though students of different ages in a single age group will be there in a single class. We have a structured implementation methodology.

All the students in a class will be having a common set of projects but the learning objectives will vary, since it is age dependent. That is, each child will be completing the same project using the functions, which are age specific.

9. Do you have free demo session (young explorer)

Half-hours free learning session for kids.

10. Is one hour a week enough for teaching children computer technology?

We don’t believe in over burdening them. We believe that one hour per week is the optimum time  for exposing children to computer technology. We have arrived at this after an extensive study and research.

11. Examinations

We don’t conduct any examination as such. But we assess their performance regularly. In each module, the project that they do in the last (7^th) lesson is meant for this. The parents are informed of their children’s performance. 

12. Do you give certificates?

They are given a Participation Certificate, and at the end of the course, they get certified as ‘IT-Kids’.

13. How deep your curriculum goes into the academics subjects?

We give focus on the most important and the toughest topics (concepts) in each subject.

14. What is the problem with the Computer Science syllabus in schools?

Schools approach and teach computers as a programming tool. They only teach Basic & LOGO. And most of the children are not interested in programming. They get an aversion towards computers, which might later lead to a sense of technophobia in their minds.

Our curriculum throws open the doors of technology, thereby exposing children to technology in the younger ages itself because we believe that future belongs to technology and also computer is going to be a very  common tool in the near future.

15. What is the medium of instruction?

English

16. What is the ratio?

Student: Computer ratio- 1:2

17. What is the difference between you and the competitors?

Most of them focus on academics only. Their methodology is CBT (Computer Based Training). We employ the CBL (Computer Based Learning) methodology, because it is better suited for children.

Other players teach technology but with no academic focus, despite claims that there is a secondary focus on academics. This incidental focus does not include a definite set of learning objectives, crucial for academics.

18. Why CBL but not CBT?

Researchers have shown that CBT is not effective for teaching children. The problem with the CBT approach is that it does not give the child an opportunity for exploring things on his own. And as a result of that he gets bored very soon. That is why we are adopting the methodology of CBL.

19. Do you teach software such as MS Office to the children?

No. We do not teach them the software as such but how to use the software for solving their everyday problems. We teach them how to make use of enormous power of computers as a very useful and productive tool.

In the process of teaching technology, we make use of the best software Titles like MS  Office, available in the market. For example, we teach them basics of Operating Environment, Word processing, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Desktop Publishing, Multimedia, Programming, Databases and Telecommunication using the software but not the software as such.

20. Why so?

According to the market research, about 90% of the technology, will be used in the next century, have not yet been invented.

Information which is important today, might be irrelevant in the future. That means that teaching today’s software as such to the children won’t help them to face the new millennium.

21. Who is the team who developed (the research done) for developing the curriculum?

The I. T. Kids R & D team, a panel of top educationalists of the country, who have been in kids segment for the past four decades, consisting of academicians, child psychologists, teachers and IT professionals who are not only in charge of developing the curriculum but also are responsible for keeping constant watch in the implementation process.