100 Days Action Plan

ARISE is an educational initiative aimed at establishing state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics laboratories across all high schools in Kerala, creating foundational awareness in these fields among students. The project is being implemented by upgrading the existing digital infrastructure in schools with Little KITEs units, while ensuring the necessary equipment is provided to schools without them. In Kerala’s public school ICT curriculum, coding is already introduced from Class 4, AI concepts from Class 7, and Robotics in Class 10. ARISE serves as a direct continuation of these learning objectives.

Key Impact: Advanced Robotic Kits have already been distributed to over 2,200 schools, with dedicated KITE Mentors and Student Mentors fully trained to lead the initiative. This program aims to lead the next generation to the forefront of the global technological revolution, cultivating scientific temper and innovative problem-solving skills right from the school level.

• Future-Ready Exposure: Introduce students to core principles of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotics at the school level.
• Hands-on ARISE Hubs: Convert existing IT labs or tinkering spaces into interactive, advanced robotics learning environments.
• Teacher Empowerment: Provide comprehensive training to educators on cutting-edge AI tools, robotics applications, and lab safety protocols.
• Socially Relevant Innovation: Encourage students to use design thinking to build tech-driven solutions for real-world issues in agriculture, healthcare, traffic control, and water management.
• Ethical AI Awareness: Instill critical thinking, digital ethics, and safety awareness for responsible AI usage.

To elevate academic standards across Classes 1 to 12 in public education, integrating modern digital technology alongside physical infrastructure is essential. Samagra Plus is a comprehensive digital academic monitoring system that unifies curriculum-aligned digital content, teaching, assessment, progress tracking, analytics, and administrative oversight into a single network.

As part of the Government's 100-Day Programme, expanding infrastructure to boost academic quality is a key focus. Efforts are underway to integrate various portals developed by the Department of General Education to achieve this goal. By systematically documenting academic monitoring through digital tools and evaluating progress via centralized dashboards, all educational activities can be coordinated seamlessly to drive overall academic excellence.

• Teacher Support: Helps teachers plan learning activities using modern digital tools.
• Headmaster Oversight: Enables Headmasters to monitor, record, and guide lesson plans (both digital and non-digital) prepared by teachers.
• Educational Officers' Monitoring: Provides Educational Officers with tools to track school performance, offer guidance, and encourage academic progress.

This module is designed to train Headmasters on effectively utilizing the Samagra Plus portal to evaluate and record school academic activities.

• Support for New Leaders: Designed to equip newly appointed Headmasters with complete technical and academic support, building total confidence in their administrative role.
• Comparative Learning: Encourages trainees to benchmark current practices against existing workflows during training.

• Familiarize Headmasters with Samagra Plus features.
• Encourage teachers to adopt portal-based learning resources.
• Empower school leaders to easily evaluate and analyze academic outcomes.

Digital Square is an innovative educational initiative designed to foster gamified learning, digital literacy, creativity, and self-directed learning skills among students using modern ICT technologies. The project envisions setting up a digital technology-enabled learning environment across Classes 1 to 7 in public schools. It serves as a common platform to ensure equal opportunities for all students in utilizing technology. "Digital Square" helps increase student participation in emerging techno-creative fields—including Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, & Comics (AVGC)—while establishing the necessary foundational digital learning ecosystem.

Alongside this, the project aims to deliver ICT-enabled learning using Lower Primary and Upper Primary ICT-empowered textbooks (Kalipetti and e-Vidya), while promoting collaborative and decentralized development of digital learning resources.

• Government and Aided Lower Primary (1–4) and Upper Primary (5–7) schools following the state curriculum with at least two computers can participate.
• Schools with higher student enrollment must set up additional computers proportional to their strength.
• Arrangements must be made to ensure the Digital Square space remains fully operational during all school hours.
• As part of the 100-Day Action Plan, the project will be implemented in 50% of eligible schools in each educational district that possess the necessary physical infrastructure and demonstrate readiness.
• By ensuring continuous ICT-enabled learning, Digital Square will serve as a permanent digital learning aid in participating schools.

• Gamified & Blended Learning: Ensure digital-physical blended learning across all subjects using edutainment software like Educational GCompris, designed specifically for children.
• Digital Safety: Create a self-directed learning environment that emphasizes safe digital device usage.
• Creativity & Life Skills: Foster creativity, problem-solving skills, and computational thinking using tools such as Tux Paint (Drawing), Thalam & MuseScore (Music), Pencil2D (Animation), and Scratch (Block Coding).
• Bridging the Digital Divide: Reduce digital inequality by providing equal access to tech resources and standardized digital learning opportunities for all students.
• Inclusive Education: Utilize assistive technologies such as voice feedback for visually impaired students and high-contrast UI settings for children with special needs.

Currently, students face the challenge of preparing for competitive entrance examinations alongside their regular school studies. The UGC mandates aptitude tests for all undergraduate admissions, not just for Medical and Engineering courses. Major universities and colleges grant admission based on entrance test scores, and entering the workforce also requires clearing competitive exams. To address this, the Government has decided to integrate high-quality foundation training into the regular public education system, preparing all Class 11 and Class 12 students for examinations such as NEET, JEE, KEAM, and CUET.

While previous initiatives provided model question banks, preparing under teacher guidance within the school environment offers far greater benefits. It instills confidence and equips students with proven preparation strategies. To maximize efficiency, a dedicated, AI-powered portal will be developed to deliver personalized training.

• Universal Training: Provide competitive examination training to all Class 11 and 12 students across Science, Commerce, and Humanities streams.
• Confidence Building: Familiarize students with the formats and preparation strategies for professional entrance exams to boost their confidence.
• Academic & Career Readiness: Equip Kerala’s public school students to excel in higher education and secure high-quality jobs.
• Increased Representation: Enhance the presence of Kerala students in premier higher education institutions and competitive career sectors.

Schoolwiki (https://schoolwiki.in) is an official digital knowledge repository created through public participation, connecting every public school across Kerala. It serves as a comprehensive platform providing the public with detailed information about schools, including their history, physical infrastructure, academic activities, achievements, special features, and photo galleries. Additionally, Schoolwiki hosts local histories, state school literary festival entries, academic master plans, digital school magazines, Kunjezuthukal (creative writings by Class 1 students), and Aksharamvriksham (literary works created during the COVID-19 pandemic).

By transparently and continuously documenting school activities, Schoolwiki provides reliable information to students, parents, researchers, and the general public, playing a vital role in strengthening the connection between schools and the community.

As per directions vide Government Order G.O. (Ordinary) No. 1198/2022/G.Edn dated 01.03.2022, all Government, Aided, and Recognized Unaided schools in Kerala were mandated to set up their respective Schoolwiki pages, ensuring content quality and factual accuracy. However, several school pages remain incomplete, and some unaided schools have yet to update basic information. To address this, the State Government has launched "Wikithon – Schoolwiki Updation Campaign" as part of its 100-Day Action Plan. Managed by the General Education Department, this statewide initiative aims to comprehensively update and enrich 12,500+ Schoolwiki pages, reinforcing digital transparency and school presence across the state.

• Digital Archiving: Cultivate a culture of continuously documenting the history, founding background, ongoing activities, and notable alumni of every public school for future generations.
• Community & Student Empowerment: Enable teachers, students, and community members to collaboratively gather local information and school magazines, publishing them on an open public platform using a Wikipedia-style format.
• Information Accuracy: Ensure all basic school data is updated and verified in a time-bound manner.