The number of out-of-school children in India has fallen to 10 million in November 2005 from 39 million, D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development has said.
The Minister added that 100 per cent success in various educational schemes is yet to be achieved and assured that shortcomings and deficiencies in the functioning of these schemes are continuously being monitored and the emphasis are the child centric schemes. What is to be ensured now is that there should be a vocational bias at the end of secondary education in the absence of which, students are presently proceeding to higher education pursuing degree course in general education resulting in the creation of surplus manpower who do not fulfill the productive requirements of the country. Diversification of education at secondary level would reduce the pressure on higher education. Vocationalization and terminalization of education at the middle school level and secondary education level is essential to gear up educational development for economic growth.
Zambia and India have signed an agreement that will see India fund Zambian training centres to train researchers and the public in information and communication technology (ICT) skills.
In the largest such simultaneous deployment of ‘free-and-open’ software in India, over 15 lakh Kerala schoolchildren start taking their quarterly practical tests in Information Technology on personal computers using a special Linux version.
John Wood, founder and CEO of the non-profit Room To Read libraries announced opening of 1,600 libraries by this year. The libraries will add to those already are operational in schools in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and five other countries.
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has currently introduced an online payment system to ensure better support services to learners. NIOS for this reason has signed an agreement with the ICICI Bank for installation of a payment gateway for making online payment through credit cards.
Apeejay School, Noida has made rapid strides in the implementation of IT and IT education over the past decade. Today, the influence of IT has permeated through out the school and its ubiquitous presence can be felt at all levels and departments, right from Nursery to the school office. This in turn has spawned an IT culture among the students, who have garnered several laurels for the school in numorous inter-school competitions at the state, national and international levels, in addition to consistently performing well in the CBSE examinations. Innovative curriculum is designed and developed by the computer staff. A graded IT education programme (Grade I to Grade XII) has been developed that introduces the use of computers at the pre-primary level itself and then builds on the students knowledge and skill base at every subsequent level.
Apeejay School, Noida has made rapid strides in the implementation of IT and IT education over the past decade. Today, the influence of IT has permeated through out the school and its ubiquitous presence can be felt at all levels and departments, right from Nursery to the school office. This in turn has spawned an IT culture among the students, who have garnered several laurels for the school in numorous inter-school competitions at the state, national and international levels, in addition to consistently performing well in the CBSE examinations. Innovative curriculum is designed and developed by the computer staff. A graded IT education programme (Grade I to Grade XII) has been developed that introduces the use of computers at the pre-primary level itself and then builds on the students knowledge and skill base at every subsequent level.
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The school uses Pre-school software, the CAL packages and systems that help pre-schoolers learn to read, write and conceptualise. Using a simple keyboard or a touch-sensitive screen, the computer can present images of letters, animals or other objects. Many systems can also recognise and repeat sounds. The school also uses educational software for classes Nursery to XII, in which the CAL packages enable children to learn math, spelling, geography, and other subjects, often in the form of a game of adventure. Software for both individual and collaborative learning exists. Computer simulations created with sophisticated graphics and commands that let a child practice real world knowledge and decision making skills to, for example, demonstration of science concepts and mathematics.
The School did not have an effective computer cluster to render computer-generated images (a render farm) solution for users who needed to create large volumes of animation and images. Instead of leveraging the calculating power of a multi-computer cluster to render images, students used local individual machines to render their images. This meant that rendering multiple high definition animated images could take days, and often locked up all the processing power of the machine. With tight course deadlines, such time-consuming processes affected students’ abilities to produce long-sequence animation on time, and hence limited the creative content that went into their work.
Windows Compute Cluster Server includes a single head node and one or more compute nodes. The head node deploys compute nodes and schedules jobs for the compute cluster. To automatically deploy compute nodes to the cluster, the School simply installs and configures Remote Installation Services (RIS) on the head node. As Ng says, “Windows Compute Cluster is very simple to use. The user interface is Windows-based so little learning was required by administrators and users. And when needing to make updates, the IT administrator deploys updates remotely via the server machine.”
As a not-for-profit organization, SIDM needs to be smart when investing in technology. Ng comments, “Windows Compute Cluster Server was cheaper than the Linux alternative. Coupled with excellent support and the solution meeting our exact needs, we felt that this made it the right technology investment decision. Windows Compute Cluster Server offers great value for money.”
IWBs are highly motivating and learner-centred tools when integrated innovatively. They offer a powerful facility for integrating media elements into teaching to enhance content and support collaborative learning. Although already penetrated the school sector, the tool has still less presence in the higher education sector. All IWBs though do not offer all similar features, but their over all contribution to teaching learning revolves round the same set of objectives.
These whiteboards have a soft flexible surface similar to vinyl, comprising two pieces of resistive material with a small gap between them to create a touch-sensitive membrane. They can be drawn on using fingers or a special stylus that can represent pens of different colours via software selection.
Interactive whiteboards can be fixed or free-standing. Free-standing boards have the advantage of portability Interactive whiteboards work with both PCs and Macs, the only need is to check the right software. However, the tool has yet to address some issues attached to it, in order to make a widespread use of it in teaching and learning. One of the major issue being interactive whiteboards are more expensive than conventional whiteboards or projector/screen combinations.
Sun Microsystems India has entered into a technology alliance with Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Pvt Ltd, a software product development company operating in the IT segment of e-Learning and knowledge management, to deliver an end-to-end e-Learning solution to the academic community.
Educomp Solutions, the online, interactive and multimedia education content and solutions provider announced that it had acquired a 70.05 per cent stake in Canadian online teaching solutions company Savvica.
Intel Corporation Chairman Dr Craig Barrett announced introduction of its Intel World Ahead Programme aiming at providing information and communication technology (ICT) education and its access to the general population across Bangladesh.
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