On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Gautam Chaudhary <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Reports state out of around 800 components only 16% are Indian, and >> still they claim the tablet to be made in India!! >> >> And now its not even quite cheap. And as the manufacturer Datawind is >> not a big one, i doubt the quality. >> > > > Most important - Will it useful to children ? In India , student learn a lot > of thing of various subjects and teacher play key role. many places, stuents > cannot write till 5th class. I do not think that introducing computing to a > very low age is good idea. > I visit lots of conf and see costly ICT solution where teacher can draw > and visualize Trigonometry problems.. I cannot really convince that all > these ICT stuff will really help. > Example - what will you call a teacher who teach "counting, tables, > addition and other basic math" ONLY on calculator and no ruff book !! can > you compare this teacher with school principle who just want > to digitize school in all possible ways ? > I have been associate with OLPC and I do not see any impact. do anybody know > any study which show Good impact ot ICT/Computer on child ? >
Given the typical student to teacher ratio in most places activity based learning will not be possible. In Finland or parts of Japan it is implemented to an extent. In India most advocates stress on using ICT as a study aid (simulations etc) and for self-learning. ICT is also expected to have a remedial role ... as quality of teaching is often not ensured. There are many studies on ICT. It is established that If students use it as some kind of TV, then they are sure to become dumb. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
