On 18 April, there was an interesting report on how Microsoft India and a Bangalore based firm Education Innovative Concepts have come up with trend setting technological breakthroughs by developing their `Windows Multipoint Server (WMS)' and `NextPC', respectively, toward a common goal: To take the benefits of Computer Aided Curriculm to more number of children at about 50% of the cost that is being invested by school managements presently.
Such developments have a great potential in reaching children in rural areas as well and let them participate actively in the learning process. Perhaps this will pave way for more community participation in school processes, which has always been a worrying issue to school managements, NGOs, and other education providers.
However, it is important that technology aided classroom strategies do not replace replace activity based approaches unless they are not advisable or not practically possible in any given classroom situation.
Links: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/default.aspx and http://www.ieconcepts.in/NxtPC.aspx
However, it is important that technology aided classroom strategies do not replace replace activity based approaches unless they are not advisable or not practically possible in any given classroom situation.
Links: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/default.aspx and http://www.ieconcepts.in/NxtPC.aspx
