What role has technology played in arresting drop-outs, facilitating universalisation of education in India?
Technology used effectively has the potential to be the great leveler. It has the ability to provide quality resources in the form of content to a large number of students. The issue of teacher quality can be addressed easily by integrating technology in the curriculum and in the teaching and learning process. Project based approaches in a technology enriched environment, will help connect learning to the real life and make learning a more involved process. Very often technology is not used effectively because teachers have not been trained on effective use of this powerful tool. If these tools are provided, then change can happen at a fast pace. Education policies also need to be amended to support this cause. We have seen some encouraging results in rural India where students themselves, given an opportunity to solve authentic real life problems and given right technology resources, with right guidance of trained teachers, have addressed issues like girl child retention, bringing bac
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