M. Rajendran reports that children in two of New Delhi’s schools mix prime time TV style quizzing with classroom instruction as part of another stage in moving to computer aided learning. Young students learn complicated chemical formulae or the periodic table or photosynthesis. Then they test what they learned in the “fastest finger” way by clicking on a computer mouse.
Information technology by Educomp Solutions, Inc. provides the digital content. Teachers log onto the school network and download the latest and the best exercises for their class. Interactive quizzes are conducted with Educomp’s Smart Assessment System software that dispenses each student’s scores immediately. This allows teachers continuous evaluation of each child and the chance to remedy learning deficiencies in real time.
This is not an endorsement of any company or product. It is recognition of the power for student learning of mobile PCs in schools. Some call such computer aided education smart classes.
That seems a reasonable descriptor, at least for the moment, until even more powerful methods, procedures, and techniques emerge. I’m sure their on the way. Business people see such deployments as worthy of venturing into the highly financed, low productivity education market.
Hmm. I wonder if the New Delhi schools are an example of how U.S. schools will outsource instruction in exchange for increased student learning rates?
