Bala Swecha-Bridging the Digital Divide
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Bala Swecha-Bridging the Digital Divide
- Some Context Current state Our Vision
- Some Context
- Government schools:
- Corporate schools:
- Huge Digital Divide
- History
- 5,000 / 76,000 Around 22 million students attend these schools Focus on: Computer education rather than Computer aided education Number of schools with computers Proprietary hardware & software • Vendor lock-in • Expensive licences
- Constraints: Constraints with NComputing: • Proprietary technology • Vendor lock-in • Licences • Old software N-Computing
- . The Free Software solution:
- A 3 School Pilot
- 35%(Average Pre Test Score)
- 84%(Average Post Test Score)
- Implementation in schools 1500 Student Volunteers 200 GLUGs With a reach of 20,000 students IT Volunteers at Swecha
- Teacher Training Workshops 200 Teachers 180Schools 75 schools adopted!
- Some Context Current State Our Vision
- Current State
- Virtual lab applications: Math: • Geogebra • Tux Math • KBruch Science: • Density • Free fall tower • Weight and Mass • Human Atlas • Levers • Pulleys • Step • Kalzium Social: • Kgeography • Stellarium • Celestia English: • Artha • kAnagram • Conjugate Programming: • kTurtle • Scratch And a lot more…
- Kalzium: Periodic table & Molecular builder
- Stellarium: Planetarium application
- Moodle: Multimedia Content Offline videos
- Content from - • Aravind Gupta toys • Khan Academy • PhET • K12 • and others
- Some Context Current State Our Vision
- Our Vision
- Vision: Vision