paradigm shift and OLPC

[kalyan97]

I have already offered a comparative lexicon for 25 indian languages which
will add content to the laptop. I hope this will be plugged in.

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman

On Nov 18, 2007 7:39 PM, Nagarajan Vadivel <radius.consultancy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello All,
> I am an academician from INDIA.  In anticipation that India will be
> one of the beneficiaries of OLPC I did some research on the use of
> OLPC for delivering content both syncronously and asynchronously.  It
> is unfortunate that India opted out of the OLPC project
> One of the topics gained currency earlier was the creation of content
> depositories as net library with ebboks and audio books.  It was also
> further emphasisde that there must be a cadre of paid and nonpaid net
> librarians having their virtual presence to help the teachers and
> learners to manage information.
> I understand the OLPC as a paradigm shift deschholing learning as an
> institution to create a virtual network of learning and teaching where
> the students will be active learners and the teachers will be "guides
> by the side"
> I am aware that the paradigm shift requires the delivery of content
> through internet and internet mainly in digital and multimedia form
> The technology is another issue where the content creators and
> developers provide the content in the web and in the flash drive
> I did some work to port content mainly of creatice commons and open
> source type in USB flash drive and UDisk for distribution to the
> teachers to share the same with the learners in the meshed environmeny
> in the class room context
> When the learners are atomized and work individually they may use the
> net librarians to get the guidance
> It is an ecosystem of internet synergising the appliances (Flash
> drives) and services (net librarian/net library) for
> deinstitutionalising the school with meaningful virtual educational
> service to millions
> The challenge is already there and how we will challenge the challenge?
> Nagarajan
>
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