On 06/30/2011 11:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jun 2011 22:34:15 Rony wrote: >> On 06/30/2011 09:47 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: >>> 2011/6/30 Rony <[email protected]>: >>>> I did some web searching on this subject and there are some nice eye >>>> opening articles on this technology and every school management must >>> Did you find anything relevant to the Indian milieu during your research? >> It is still young and what happened in the US is now happening here with >> the same players amongst the rest. What I feel individually is that >> these are high end presentation products meant for corporate offices and >> not for schools, that too in every classroom. Simply calling them >> teaching aids does not change things. We don't even have the entire >> syllabus of every class and subject available fully in professional and >> electronic format. If schools want to go digital then a simple projector >> and computer in every class or in a special room is sufficient. Schools >> must invest in professional grade content not gadgets. >> > You should visit with Dr. Nagrjuna and Ganesh/ Amit etc on their visit to > khalapur to understand what ICT is all about. > ICT requires the student to be in control, asking questions, generating data, > interacting with their immediate environment, in applying the principles of > science, maths, arts etc. That is learning and more importantly that is what > teaching is all about. > > Education in most places has degraded to hand me downs from teacher to > student > and ICT is reduced to gizmos like the white board. How many students have > their own lab? or their own music / story / recording facility.
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