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STEM Education and Tech Assisted Tools for Student Comprehension

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The session focused on STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to create skilled and employable  workforce. It highlighted the need to increase critical thinking among students that will help build the next generation of innovators

Hema,
Principal,
Ganges Valley School

It is a great challenge for educators to handle kids born with STEM skills as they are born creative and innovative. They are practical problem solvers and designers rather than workers. Also, they have collaborative thinking and are life-long learners. These kids are very comfortable handling technology tools. The only thing missing out is engineering approach and we have to concentrate on that.
Prabhakar Reddy,
Principal,
Bhadrachalam Public School

Our talent pool can be increased by enhancing the level of STEM education in K-12 and by strengthening the skills of teachers through additional training in STEM. We should enlarge the pipeline of graduates and students entering college with STEM degrees. Degrees acquired today do not prepare them to face real world challenges and limit their employability.
D Usha Reddy,
Principal,
Meridian School

Think and then create, innovate because gadgets can only support. After all, it is the human brain that created gadgets. The human mind should focus more on the classroom than on technology.
Seetha Murty,
Principal,
Silver Oaks School

Every school should be a research centre because they know the background of every student who comes in. Schools and parents have to decide what technology should be used in schools to fulfill the goals of the education they want to give to the youngsters.
Andrey Shelukhin,
Counselor (Science & Technology),
Embassy of the Russian Federation in India

The Russian concept of socio-economic development up to year 2020 stresses on the need to establish a national system for the development of science and national innovation in technologies with greater use of ICT.

 

Punjab Children to Learn Through Radio

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The initiative aims at imparting education in a simple but an interesting manner by using the strong medium of radio

Chandigarh: To bring qualitative improvement in primary education, the Punjab government has decided to start radio classrooms in all government primary schools from December 20 under its Parvesh Project.

Stating on the decision, the state education minister Sikander Singh Maluka said under the new arrangement, a special 20-minute education programme would be telecast through regional centre of FM Jalandhar, FM Rainbow, Jalandhar, Local Radio Station, Bathinda and Patiala from 1430 hrs to 1450 hrs for primary students.

This new initiative is aimed at imparting education on selected subjects in a simple but an interesting manner by using the strong medium of radio.

“The Punjab government was committed to upgrade the primary education and decided to adopt different mediums and interesting manners to develop more interest for education among tender minds,” he added.

He said after comprehensive study it was found that by using the medium of radio, some tough concepts could be explained to the kids in a simple manner and the special radio classroom initiative would also help the young minds to concentrate on studies.

The minister has directed the Director General School Education to ensure provision of radio sets in all the government primary schools besides educating the teachers about the channel and its frequency for this new radio classroom system.

New Website Launched For HR-College Interaction

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TheHRConnect.com is fastest growing online portal for the HR community facilitating interaction between HR heads and colleges

New Delhi: Understanding the need of branding for employers, TheHRConnect.com has offered the HR community in India an online platform to interact with colleges and universities.

TheHRConnect.com is a social network dedicated to HR professionals. It has features where users can have pages similar to Facebook for promoting their brand.

TheHRConnect.com is the fastest growing online portal for the HR community and it operates on the belief that effective online network for recruitment can lead to potential benefits.

Using social media, colleges and universities are able to today not only connect with students but also promote their brand in terms of generating employment opportunities for their alumni.

Scouting for the right talent through campus placements has become easier with social media from the point of view of HR professionals as well. One such leading website, offers beneficial interaction between the HR heads of various corporate companies and students.

 Mr. Gagan Randhawa, Co founder, TheHRConnect.com says “We provide this facility of designing a customized page for colleges. The college can use this page in order to put their college information, profile, etc. It can upload their placement brochure and student profiles as well. Also, it can promote their page among HR professionals in the same way that we do on Facebook. Any HR who is interested in recruiting alumni from the college can download the college profile as well as students’ profile for placements.”

Setting India Free from Regulatory Barriers

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We need to identify pockets of excellence in our country and provide opportunities for growth to them, AICTE Chairman S S Mantha asserts

Teaching is a performing art. You need passion to teach and learn and have the immunity to learn from students. This immunity creates a two-way traffic and helps you connect with the students.

The class expects some understanding from the lecture and in the absence of that, he might never want to come back for that class. We need teachers with domain expertise and the ability to understand students.

We can use technical interventions as value-added material but not as a replacement to the teachers. I do not think we have good content available today. Today’s students do not study from books, but series. They mug the questions and the answers from those. And if the questions come in a different form, the students are unable to answer them.

Therefore, we have a very serious concern  about the regulatory processes we are employing. For example, the national average for first year results is about 20 percent. This means if there are a million students, only 20 percent of them pass their engineering exams.

Quality is a very important factor in technical education today because students enter the industry directly. This means the industry judges us from day one. We also come across students who score 90 percent in grade 12 and fail in the first year of their engineering.  

The problem: lack of conceptual understanding. Mugging does not hold any value. A lot of people who cannot make that transition fail,  and those who have the potential, understand the game and change their track. So from the second or third year, their percentages  start rising.

Providing opportunities for growth
Creating quality all over the space is not possible. We need to identify pockets of excellence and provide means of growth to them. Everyone wants to do an MBA today. But are all the people pursuing MBA getting commensurate jobs? We need to change the demand  side and increase employment opportunities in different sectors, come up with manufacturing and retail sectors and open up more  retail sectors, primary, tertiary and secondary markets because there is a lot of job potential available in these sectors.

Not just this, we also need more money circulation in the system. Population figures say that the rate of growth is 1.5 percent and the  GDP is 5.5 percent. The difference four percent is the per capita income. Inflation is about eight percent. Therefore, the real value is  going down. We do not have any money to spend and there is no money in circulation. And because of inflation, the prices are going  up.

The Indian society believes in saving and investing money in different bonds, and in the US and other countries at the country  level. And yet, we say that our economy is not performing well. The US takes loans and spends they money we save. They import  almost everything and their economy is growing. What we need is self-regulation. The systems we are moving towards are not proper  for a developing country. We should systematically break regulatory barriers and create trust in the system.

At AICTE, we are promoting the vocationalisation of higher education which is the future. If we do not provide our students meaningful opportunities for education and employment, it will hamper the growth of our country.

In the coming years, conventional  degrees or diplomas in any discipline will not work. We need to create new paradigms and bring in more students into the system,  specially those who fail or drop out. We are also promoting the concept of community colleges for those who have never gone to  school, provide skills to them and show them higher pathways.

 

Knowledge should be Coupled with Common Sense

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Prabhakar Rao Polasani, Chairman, Rao’s Group of Educational Institutions, opined that our education system should be more interactive and make students think out-of-the-box, at eINDIA 2012

In today’s world, children are very active when it comes to using technology. They know how to quickly operate and understand things that use technology.

Before we talk about having digital classrooms, we should first ponder over the purpose of educational institutions in India and the future in India. We have so many big and prestigious  institutions like the IITs in our country and a number of other institutions working towards getting students into the IITs, but do we have a noble prize winner from even one of the IITs?

All it takes to get into an IIT is a lot of hard work and revision. Certainly, there is a lot we are missing out on. I shall explain this through an example. A 65-year-old man was suffering from a cardiac problem and was visiting a famous super-specialty hospital for his treatment where he also got his bypass surgery done. After two months, he fell sick with something else
that affected his lungs. He went to the same hospital where they tried to diagnose the problem through various tests. A week after he was discharged, he fell sick again, went to the same hospital and got the diagnosis repeated. This time, he visited another hospital to cross-check, where he was admitted for a week. His illness reoccurred. He now went to a third hospital where he was found to be suffering from fluid-filled lungs. What did all the other hospitals he went to miss out on? Idea.

Clearly, all the institutions in our country are imparting a lot of knowledge to the students, but this knowledge lacks common sense. We seriously need to analyse if the kind of education that we are imparting to our students make them think out-of-the-box and how interactive our teaching is.

Despite a lot of gadgets being introduced into the classrooms today, learning through visualisation still seems to be more impactful.

Learning Practices in the 21st Century: Technology Challenges and Digital Insights

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The Internet and a wide variety of emerging communication and simulation technologies have enhanced the learning process and experimental or real-world problem solving skills for students. Schools are not just adopting technology, but more diverse and innovative ways of teaching and learning. The session expresses viewpoints on blend of technology and education to overcome these challenges.

Simi Kher, Country Coordinator, Tony Blair Faith Foundation Our education system today would feel irrelevant unless there is a bridge between how students live and how they learn.

K Renuka Raju, Founder, Correspondent, Lotus Learning Systems Society Every child and teacher must have the skills that are required to make them job-ready. These have to be evaluated as a part of the curriculum and also reported in the National Certificate for Workplace Preparation.

Nageswara Rao, Principal, Sanghamitra School If we blend technology and classroom teaching, we can give better education to the children. Harnessing technological advancements can turn the world around for a student who considers studying as a compulsion.

Rupesh Kumar Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, Inopen Technologies Our objective in teaching computer science is to develop clarity and stepwise execution of any task. We want to develop confidence in solving complex problems. We should use this as a vehicle to mould the next generation technology users.

Lt Col A Sekhar, Principal, Atul Vidyalaya The right blend of technology is needed in teaching. Quality and access to education are the major challenges that need to be addressed.

Satheesh Kalyansundaram, Senior Sales Engineer, Websense Security is a serious issue in education and needs to be looked deeper into.

Mathewhzacharias, Principal, Global Indian International School To achieve quality in education, we need to involve our student community in brainstorming. Charles Darwin said that what we think today is not the best thing in the next generation. We have to put things in perspective

G Kumar Naik, Secretary, Primary and Secondary Education, Government of Karnataka Schools have changed drastically in the last 15 years. To overcome the barriers in the education, we have to move from the first level of ICT to the second.

eINDIA Awards Hall of Fame

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Essentials for Building Visionary Schools in a Globalised World

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“To build the school is to build the civilisation”, says Robert Stevenson. The term ‘visionary’ implies to those schools where learning programmes and communities share basic qualities. The session was enriched with speakers from across India and the world. The panel shared their opinion on the roadmap to building visionary classrooms to adapt to the globalised world
Dr Pascal Chazot,
Head of School, Mahatma Gandhi International School

Good methodology and pedagogy can resolve challenges in the classroom.
Sukumar Venkatachalam,
President, Pearson Schools

The holistic development of a child does not focus only on academic brilliance. Academic  knowledge is definitely required but it is not the only aim to getting education. This is a starting point and is the fulcrum. It needs to be supported by the overall activities of children. Exhibiting your talent in cocurricular activities needs to get into the classroom today, and teachers are the pillars for this implementation. The focus on building good teachers needs to be given more emphasis.
Shashwati Banerjee,
Managing Director, Sesame Workshop

Schooling needs to begin at a much earlier age and needs to be regulated with standardised guidelines. We also need to have high quality trained teachers in the country to impart meaningful education, apart from engaging content, holistic curriculum, and teaching methodology in the classrooms.
Shivoo Kooteshwar,
Director, Amaatya Academy

We should spend less time in filling minds of hungry students with content by lecturing them. Rather, we should ignite their creativity, imagination and problem-solving skills by talking. This is done by interacting with students and doing active learning in classrooms.
Sundaram Ramaswamy,
CEO, Xcallibre

To build visionary classrooms, we need to have limited teaching staff and focus on making their time more useful and effective.
Sanjay Singh,
Principal Secretary, Department of School Education, Madhya Pradesh

Quality has to be the target in education, but the major limitation is that we have teachers who do not have teaching as their first choice.

Multi Dimensional Approach is a Must for Visionary Schools

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Holistic development of a child is very important in today’s globalised world, said Rajeev Katyal, Country Director, Global Indian Foundation and GIIS Schools India, at eINDIA 2012

India is globalising very fast. Indians are going abroad and MNCs are coming to India and interacting with each other. This is pointing to an era where India will emerge as a global economic superpower in the years to come. Children of today’s India will lead the effort. And for this they need education in globalised environment.
A global school needs to cater to certain aspects, which makes it the visionary school of future. One such aspect is curriculum, whereby we need to have schools catering to diversified curricula. Second aspect is infrastructure that needs to be not only academic, but one that also caters to co-curricula and global connectivity. Third is holistic development of a child academically, and also  support multiple intelligences, and excellence in different areas. Holistic development is a method of looking at a child in multiple  dimensions and choosing that dimension in which that child is special and trying to emphasise on that strength in a particular child.
Global education excellence also talks about exchanging information between children in various parts of the world to make them  globally aware about the other parts. Global education is about sharing best practices across geographies and involving every stakeholder including teachers, students, parents, media, and society. There are multiple dimensions that need to be focused on when we talk about visionary school in global context. Today, schools emphasise only on CBSE curricula. Many students have full potential and freedom to go to curricula, which are different from Indian curricula like IGCSE curriculum or IB, ICSE. Particularly with  international curricula, students get a chance to go abroad and study in foreign universities.
Holistic development of a child is very important in today’s globalised world. A child could be good in academics, sports, communication or creativity. Typically in our schools, we focus on different dimensions of the child’s personality. The schools measure the ability of the child to develop in each of these areas termed as nine gems or nine dimension method where we look at things like values and ethics, leadership development, and sporting excellence to develop a child. So, multi-dimensional development is another aspect of developing global school.
An interesting experiment that the Global Indian International School has done is the global student exchange through videoconferencing. We facilitate monthly interactions with students from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indore, Surat, and Noida through the videoconferencing method to understand about each other’s countries. For example, students of Noida interacted with the students of Singapore and each presented to the other interacted about transportation system in their respective cities. Students of Noida came to know about Singapore’s transportation system and what they can learn from it. So this kind of student exchange leads to globalised community and develops global culture and etiquette.
Another good practice that GIIS has created all over the world is strengthening of communication between all stakeholders that are  important for welfare of a child such as parents, teachers, principals, and administrators. So we have created software, My Global  Campus, that provides basic information about assignment, marks, tests, student notificationand also encourages regular feedback and  interaction between the parents sitting at home and teacher. This implementation enables 24X7 connect with schools and parents at  home. They can remotely track the child’s progress, take feedback from teachers and school. They have become partners in the child’s progress along with the schools.
With all above-mentioned efforts we are creating visionary schools of the global world.

eINDIA Proves the Power of ICT in Education

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The recently held eINDIA 2012 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), Hyderabad, witnessed key decision makers & experts, administrators & policy makers, leaders & stakeholders, service providers & IT-telecom vendors, consulting firms, ICT entrepreneurs & development agencies – all converging on one platform

Technology is of no use unless it comes to the reach and affordabil- ity of the common man, said Sri N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and chief guest,during the inauguration of the eighth edition of eINDIA 2012. India’s largest ICT event comprising conferences, expo and awards was held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre on 15- 16 November, 2012. Jointly organised by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd; Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS); and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Government and Mee Seva, the two-day event witnessed 30 panel discussions on ICT usage in governance, health and education. The conference had three parallel tracks on eGovernance, Education, and Healthcare. The three summits convened concurrently offered a unique platform for in-depth knowledge exchange and networking for key decision makers and experts; administrators and policy makers; leaders and stakeholders; service providers and IT-telecom vendors; consulting firms; ICT entrepreneurs and development agencies. Apart from the seminal tracks, eINDIA Awards turned out to be the real showstopper of the event. Fifty-four awards were given for ICT initiatives across governance, health and education under 24 separate categories. Moreover, the ICT expo with 110 exhibitors was a major attraction of eINDIA 2012. The event coincided with the first anniversary of Mee Seva – the flag- ship scheme for electronic delivery of services by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Speaking about Mee Seva services, the Chief Minister said that by issuing certificates and other documents through digital signatures, the state government had reduced dependence on the middlemen, thus introducing transparency in the system, timely delivery of services, and reducing wastage of public money.

The eGovernance summit witnessed eight sessions over two days. The topics of panel discussions ranged from the Roadmap of e-Governance in India; ICT Deployment in Public Safety & Security; Smart Cities; ICT in Energy & Transportation; Aadhaar based Service Delivery; From eSeva to Mee Seva: State Leadership Summit; ICT Usage by Public Sector Units; and ICT Usage in Financial Inclusion.

L to R: Sanjay Sahay, IGP, Karnataka; Bipul Pathak, IT Secretary, J&K; M Chaya Ratan, Special Chief Secretary, Home Dept, Andhra Pradesh; Satyendra Garg, Joint Commissioner, Delhi Traffic Police; N S N Murty, IBM during a governance session on ICT Deployment in Public Safety and Security

In the two days, eINDIA witnessed eight sessions on health and telemedicine. Panel discussions took place around the Emerging Paradigms in Healthcare; eHealth and mHealth; Point-of-Care Technologies and Chronic Disease Management; Emerging Trends in Health Insurance; Patient Safety; Rural Health and the like. While aiming to provide a platform for dialogue on the health systems in India and beyond, the eINDIA Health Summit track was able to associate with various departments and representatives of state government departments, bodies like the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) and others. The event speakers and attendees were from reputed hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, doctors, policy makers, researchers, health experts and industry members from Andhra Pradesh, across India and abroad. Among the key speakers were Girdhar J Gyani, Member, Governing Board, NABH and Member, Govern- ing Board, ISQua; P K Taneja, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Gujarat; Balaji Utla, CEO, Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI) and N Veerabhadraiah, Chief Information Officer & Deputy Director, Commissioner of Health & Family Welfare, Andhra Pradesh.

L to R: Sanjeev Gupta, Marketing Head, Accenture; Veerabhadraiah Narumanchi CIO, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh; Srikant Nagulapalli CEO, Arogyasri Health Care Trust; and Dr B K Murli Founder & Director, Dr Hope Hospital during a health session on Emerging Paradigms in Healthcare

The education seminal track was divided in two parts – School Education and Higher Education. Overall, 14 panel discussions were held in the two days. The topics for Higher Education included Challenges and Opportunities in Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions; Investment in Education; Vision 2020; Transformatory Practices in Technical Education; Creating Innovative Models in Education; and Best Practices in Higher Education. Under the School Education Track, discussions were held on topics such as Essentials for Building Visionary Schools in a Globalised World; Learning Practices in the 21st Century; Alternative Assessment Strategies; STEM Education and Tech Assisted Tools for Student Comprehension; Progressive Learning Environment through Connected Classrooms; Blended Learning Curriculum & Supportive Teaching; and Training of Educators: Coping with Rapidly Changing Education Technologies. Prof S S Mantha, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE); K Sunitha, Commissioner, Directorate of Collegiate Education; Prof Parvin Sinclair, Director, National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT); Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad; Prof V S Rao, Director, BITS Hyderabad Campus; Sanjay Singh, Principal Secretary, Department of School Education, Madhya Pradesh; Dr Pascal Chazot, Head of School, Mahatma Gandhi International School; N Siva Sankar, Commissioner & Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh; Son Kuswadi, Education Attache, The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia; Andrey Shelukhin, Counselor (Science & Technology), Embassy of the Russian Federation in India; and K Gopal, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation were among the key speakers who included state education secrearies, vice-chancellors of universities, directors and faculty members of higher education institutes, and principals and chairmen of schools.
The speakers focused on how institutions and academicians have an important role to play in the development of employability skills of the students and how ICT can be uti lised as an integral tool in this direction.

Igniting Young Minds

Interestingly, eINDIA 2012 witnessed a welcome initiative in involving the youth and teenagers in its movement to promote innovations in the usage of ICT in governance, health and education. It’s a step towards igniting the young minds and creating a platform to share their perspective with industry players.
As the first step in this direction, eINDIA 2012 had organised an online national essay contest for teenagers and the youth. The objective was to assess the vision and understanding that today’s youth posses in the fields of governance, health and education. Essays were invited around topics on future of technology vis-à-vis governance, health and eduation.

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