On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Devendra Laulkar<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> MS to build IT skills in Maha schools > > This is nothing new. The teachers are being trained and re-trained with > almost no output out of it. > > It all started years ago with Intel "Teach to the Future" program. Teachers > were taught how to use Word, Powerpoint and some other programs, to create > school reports help students in creating newsletters etc. Also, an important > module was on copyrights. > > Then we have MS-CIT [1] which was/is again compulsory for all teachers as > well as state government employees. Again this involved Windows, Office etc. > and had a computer based test. > > This latest thing I guess will be similar. Mostly it is useless. Instead of > focusing on teachers(who are usually over burdened among other things) maybe > the effort can be spent on teaching children. My 2 annas. > > -Devendra. > > [1] http://www.mkcl.org/mscit/ >
Well, it's good MKCl is solving the puzzle of litteracy as is given on their basepage, as everybody is else seems to be dealing with illiteracy :-) my 2 शिवमुद्रा (होन).. -- १. Stupid question always warrants a stupid answer! २. No question is ever stupid! _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
