Pravin dai, your experience signifies the need of the development of computer-based learning tools such as eBarnamala to impart education to any age group. I got the source for e-barnamala. If you permit, could we have it on GH so that everyone can contribute in improving it?
Rohit dai, thanks for updated information :) On Sunday, February 17, 2013 6:52:46 AM UTC+5:45, pravin joshi wrote: > > HeHe... I read the sidebar on etherpad and was flattered by the > conversation. > Anyway I wanted to just explain a little abt eBarnamala to put it into > actual perspective. eBarnamala is targetted at Early Learners (not > necessarily kids), specially for learning by doing. The basic idea was to > make it into a tool that will allow people coming into tele-centers and > e-libraries to play with it and learn in the process to make themselves > literate. If u look into what the Nepal government thinks as literate is a > person who can understand letters, time, money and be able to sign. Also > kids experiment a lot. That may not be the case for all early learners as > all early learners may not be kids. > That is why the interface is made into something dead simple and most > times only 1 click for anything to be done. > While in Jiri with my wife, we realized that eBarnamala could be used for > re-enforced learning. Ladies had social classes there to be literate, but > did not know how to continue their learning after the classes were over. So > I further looked into that the tool could be simple enough to be used in > any place where there is a computer and people with no computer knowledge > could just click their way through. > I hope that explains more the thought process and motivates people to take > eBarnamala to another level. > > Pravin > -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
