NEWS
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Second Life: future online school?Among the most emergent platforms for game-based teaching is Second Life, a virtual world superficially similar to online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft or Sims Online. The Federation of American Scientists recently published the results of a year-long study suggesting that games have the power to teach analytical skills, team building, and problem solving.
Indian government focuses on higher and technical education
This is the first time the economic survey has equally devoted its attention to primary, secondary and higher education sector by highlighting initiatives in these sectors, which will further expand in the course of the 11th Plan.
February 21: international language day
Increasing concern over dying languages which have not been written down, promoted or simply passed on to the next generation has led to UNESCO declaring 21 February as International Mother Language Day.
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FEATURE
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Education unplugged: schools make cable-free connections
Few observers doubted that the wireless-technology revolution would have an impact on K-12 education, but when third graders start turning in homework using personal digital assistants, we know we've made a significant leap from the era of chalk and blackboard.
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CASE STUDY
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Empower, enable with Edurite
Edurite, a premier company in the field of ICT based Learning and Education content incorporates process of Cognitive Learning to provide the best possible teaching aids and learning solutions to schools and students alike. Edurite has been enabling technology led education in classrooms for seven years. These solutions help teachers explain concepts better, increase level of understanding of students and help children improve their performance.
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INTERVIEW
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e-Learning to supplement the huge shortfall of trained teachers
Pramod Khera
CEO, Aptech Aptech is one of Asia's largest education and training companies having strong presence in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. It has wholly owned subsidiaries in USA, Dubai and Bangladesh. Aptech has developed over 1000 courses exceeding 20,000 hours of instruction in several international languages benefiting over 4.5 million students.
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 Power Presentation
Technology integration in classrooms
Manisha Solanki, APF:"This presentation focuses only on the challenges which were a part of my experiences in the Azim Premji Foundation. When I sent the abstract to CSDMS, the first question was posed whether I will present the same CALP of Azim Premji Foundation. I said no, however I reckon my style of learning is constructivist and would include my past experiences in the area of integrating technology in classrooms."
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Educator’s Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk is an online web repository builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community consisting of over 2,000 lesson plans, 3,000 links to online education information, and over 200 question archive responses from the Information Institute of Syracuse, creators of AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk.
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