Use Technology to improve education: But how & where?

I think there is too much of illiteracy in India mainly due to non available of good teachers across the country and no basic infrastructure, and in rural part of India the education which is being provided is pretty much outdated and it needs to be updated, due to time & money constraint from the Government's side its been really difficult for one to provide same kind of education that urban & rural kids get.

I remember one ad from Idea telecom service in which through mobile all the village schools  will be connected to a school in a city where teacher will be taking attendence and teaching them through the mobile phone, a brilliant idea, why not simply take a screen and a projector and give them a virtual classroom where they can even correspond with the teacher, and similarly even teacher can see the students. This will not only give quality education, but will also increase the literacy rate in the country, and will make sure that every body is getting the same level of education across the country.

It is quite interesting that we are talking about intrtoducing technology in the classerooms, more interesting because, it is in a nation that has not yet been able to distribute the light of education to all the nooks and corners. In my approach, drawing a single line conclusion about the same would be difficult. Rather, if we can do the same in multiple levels, I think that the approach could be more wholesome and realistic. We are in a generation today where we are seeing WORLD SCHOOLS. Talking about implementation of technology out here would be mocking at ourselves, as they have already introduce the best. Also, talking about the rear parts of the country, where education is still considered lavish, technology ios still a mocking. Dhanbad happens to be my place of work and, though not actively, but rearly, i work in a rural market, or lets call it U-ral( a transition between Rural and Urban). In many of the sorrounding places, education is seriously a lavish "aminity". So, I suppose that the first challenge in areas like this is to implement the basic education.As for the modern and the Urban cities, we can think about implementing technology, digital classrooms and the other e-learning tools.

    One more thing that I would like to draw your attention to is that, technology is seriously amazing and can do miracles, but there are certain areas, where human beings are necessary.

Well, all that I understand, if a class room have a computer with internet connection and a projector, they can get to see things which they are made to read. Now its for the teacher to take initiative and slowly keep adding best, latest pictures, audios and videos for each topic that are being taught. You know the only difference between a good school and a bad school is that they do not have the teaching resources. Internet provides the best answers to all queries.

I also need to address the people who say work upon the basics. I think, when we are talking about Technology, the constraints are bound to be there. You cannot talk technology to people who don't even have books to take home. So technology can go to small cities which already have the basics there but can compete with latest if compatible technology is provided. On technology, I am definitely not talking about remote village and poverty but places which can be a nearest reach for them. We underestimate people when we talk like bringing basics. They don't want our sympathy. People are capable of themselves, we just need to decentralize and reach out for education and I see it happen, when I drive from Delhi to my small city Rampur in UP.

when it comes to utmost "technologising" the education system ,the first thing to consider is uniformity ,and to bring it ,digital classrooms are definately a major source if it can revamp pedagogy and produce the desire result,by way of euipping the students with  rural and less developed with the same skills.it is possible if ,organised and implemented well and honestly.the next thing to modify is the teaching methodology which needs to be made more interactive and practice based with vocational traning to imparted as compulsary subject rather than optional.furthermore,the feedback system should be in place where students and there parents could post there queries,remarks and suggest things that can included or corrected so as to involve parents equally with the educational system  and make participate in there child development then being mere resource provider.

After you have arranged a square meal to the rural students, you start chronologically as follows :-

1) Arrange them shelter and clothing 2) Give them good drinking water and basic sanitation 3) Give them a 'pacca' school bulding with wide classrooms and a playground 4) arrange one teacher for every 40 nos of students 5) provide them text books ( pls limit the numbers ) etc.

And .. then ... connect all villages with electricity and Broad-band. Connect the class-rooms with Digital Vedio-projectors and V-sats for remote learnings.

... and then India marches ahead in e-learning.

Digital Classromms+Applicable Support as required (Food/Transport/Books)+Autonomous institutes+Discipline+Uniformity of goals among institutes+Smart Efforts in implementing good standards

Digital class room is not enough but it requires technical teacher with gud knowledge and good humanity to react with childrens... and also ther should be gud Learning environment have to create in the schools or institutions....

The only way to use technology in an effective way is the computerization of schools. As Dayanand said, only then the quality education reaches the rural. The Government can take it into an account since is not a big deal interms of Money. In Tamilnadu, the elementary education is slowly getting computerised and it is a better idea to extend the same for the higher.