Greetings, On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 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. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >
+10 Is there any possibility for me to join such effort? can you mail me some details? I am from Thane,Mumbai -- Regards, Rajagopal -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
