New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday announced a partnership with Facebook to provide training on digital safety, online well-being and training on augmented reality (AR) to students and teachers.
As part of the collaboration, Facebook will apparently support CBSE in its first-ever initiative to introduce AR as a curriculum.
“I congratulate CBSE and Facebook on its partnership to introduce certified programs in augmented reality for teachers and digital safety and online-wellbeing for students,” news agency IANS quoted Union Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
The training modules, which are now available on the CBSE website, are for the secondary school students. In the first phase, 10,000 teachers will be trained while 30,000 students will undergo the same in the second phase. Around 10,000 students will be covered in the training to be imparted by the Centre for Social Research (CSR).
IANS reported Facebook’s statement that the curriculum shall cover aspects such as safety, privacy, mental health and Instagram’s guide for building healthy digital habits.
The module has been designed to guide students to become responsible digital users, identify and report threats and harassment as well as report misinformation. The learners will get an opportunity and platform to conceptualise, create and brand their own AR experiences which will help the students preparing for a career in the digital economy.