NATIONAL POLICY ON ICT IN
EDUCATION
Propose innovative approaches and solutions for
building a forward-looking road map/master plan
for ICT in Education
By:
K.S Muralidhar
CEO
Learnsmart India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
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Index
1.
Retrospection –
“Is the current education system
teaching our children to score or to survive?”
2. 24x7guru.com- an outcome of a dream
3. 24X7guru.com
4. Proposed roadmap for ICT in Education
Retrospection
IS THE CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM TEACHING OUR CHILDREN
TO SCORE OR TO SURVIVE?
Education is best defined as a system that teaches students their value, acts as a platform to
enhance learning, facilitates in identifying strengths and develop on potential. However, the
current definition as prevailing in schools revolves around examinations where a child’s
intelligence is judged from the marks their score during a 3 hour examination.
All of us at a stage in life have been students and have gone through the same process of
education. The same old traditional education of a 3 hour examination that alone judges the
student is in no longer a match for the pace in which the industry is moving today.
The industry demands for individuals who are beyond books and hires personnel based on their
conceptual clarity and strong fundamental back up. The percentage of marks obtained by one
on his report card is of least influence to his employability. The only thing that matters is his
fundamental foundation in concepts learnt during his course of academics, which has given
into today’s education system as a memorizing tool for examination for the purpose of scores
alone.
Students today lack the conceptual clarity of basics in academic due to the prevailing system in
examination. Day in and day out, the child is tested on the bases of his short term memorizing
skills in all chapters for a particular class and once he graduates to the next level to another
class, storage of this memory fills the prior. The cycle continues until he reaches the stage
where in the real world, his concepts are questioned and loop holes then are realized but a little
to Late.
We are not against exams per se but we find the kind of exams we have are objectionable
because they only test the child’s memory or how fast he writes. We agree that assessment is
the only system of evaluation of things learnt and thereby developed a portal viable and equally
distressing for concepts learnt and neutralize exams and named this Portal
24X7guru.com
24X7guru.com- an outcome of a dream
24X7guru.com is an outcome of a dream, a dream of experienced professional who were
stimulated by the stress levels, low self esteem arising due to low scores in exams, the
increasing level of suicides committed and running away from home due to failure in exams,
these and many more as prevailing in young students today.
The team then committed themselves to the cause of spreading quality education
beyond
examination to cater to knowledge that increases the child’s self esteem, acts as a platform to
enhance learning, facilitates in identifying their strengths and develops on potential. Through
24X7guru.com they endeavor to train young minds to have a strong academic foundation
making Young India intellectually stronger and stress free.
24x7guru.com combines Unified Council’s Education content, Bodhtree’s online diagnostic
and assessment engine to help students study more efficiently, evaluate their progress and scale
better grades in science and mathematics subjects.
The future of India depends on Educating the Future- 24X7guru.com
It is a cliché to say that children are our future; we hear that all the time. But if it's true, what
does that future look like??
The future of India is a ten year-old boy from Mumbai whose father was a doctor and hopes
he'll become one too.
The future of India is a nine year-old girl from Delhi whose father is a lawyer and hopes
someday she would be one too.
The future of India is a thirteen year-old girl from Bangalore whose father is a businessman
and she dreams of someday be one too.
The future of Our country is in these children and thousands more studying right now in
schools, full of promise, blending cultures and creating something new. We want them to
flourish and are diminished if they won't.
To partner with them and help them in strengthening their academics in their early foundation
phase, we developed an on-line assessment tool with the objective to complement efforts by
schools, teachers and parents to empower students to become conceptually strong and named it
the
24X7guru.com
This dynamic assessment portal enables students to identify their strengths & areas of
improvement in subjects as vital as Mathematics & Science. Unlike other conventional
teaching tools that promote rote learning and create pressure on students to memorise rather
than understand; 24x7guru.com enables conceptual clarity, rational thinking ability and
analytical skills through scientifically designed assessments tests.
How does it work?
We strongly believe that a strong foundation at the school level itself is the base for success in
future and therefore 24X7guru.com caters to the students between class 3 to 10 for CBSE and
ICSE and shortly shall be adding the respective State Boards on to its portal.
Once the child is subscribed on to the portal, the entire syllabus pertaining to his class is
provided with the chapter wise breakup ( as shown in the figure below)
The child can assess himself on the chapter of his choice. Each test compromises of 20
multiple choice questions. The questions are based on the concepts pertaining to the chapter.
Each test has 20 questions and every chapter can be tested 3 times which provide for an overall
60 different concept questions to the student on every chapter. Each question is based on
various skill type such as Observation, Critical, Reasoning, analytical understanding etc. The
focal point is the accessibility of class and course specific information by which students can
assess their learning by taking a test and rate their progress everyday after school hours.
Sample of the question is provided below:
After the child completes his test an instant feedback on performance is provided. This
feedback provides him detail of Where he went wrong and more importantly Why he went
wrong. The report generated explains the child a step by step solution and reasoning to all
questions asked thereby strengthening his knowledge.
Sample of the reports is provided below
24X7guru.com is a 100% web assessment tool for the generation Z that utilizes modern tools
and techniques thereby making learning and assessment fun for children with the absence of
stress. It traces performance over a period of time to give detailed analysis of performance in a
subject with every test taken.
It tests the understanding and application of concepts rather than memorizing skills.
Road map that we propose For ICT in Education
Currently talks on education have become popular since everyone has started commenting on it
with the objective of questioning the system rather than providing effective solutions on
improvising the system.
We all agree that it is unjustified to declare a student pass or fail on the basis of a single threehour
public exam. There should be more comprehensive way of evaluating students by
employing multiple techniques of assessment.
We at 24x7guru.com propose to partner with the Department of Education to help in
strengthening every child’s academics in their early foundation phase through the use of
modern tools and techniques that all schools across India can uniformly use not only to
encourage the students to learn concepts but also to reinforce what is being taught in the
classroom.
The Proposal:
To introduce 24X7guru.com as a reinforcing tool for concepts learnt in class and include this
tool as a uniform learning/ teaching methodology for all schools across India.
This would benefit in:
- Providing a continuous uniform evaluation exercise on concepts
- Developing knowledge quotient in every child making their foundation strong
- Providing an opportunity for feedback or discussion on the students responses
- Motivating him/her to do better rather than just providing grades
- Lessen the load and tension on students
- Making teachers more accountable as performance of all teachers can be traced based
on the responses of the students in the assessment
24X7guru.com through the use of modern tools and techniques could also provide the
department of education with a detailed combined report of the level of learning’s had by
the children in all schools at the State, District and Mandal level.
Benefits of 24X7guru.com to the stakeholders
With great anticipation we look forward to partnering with the Indian Educational System for
the development of this “Generation Z” and are open to explore the possibilities of together
building the Young India.
Warm Regards,
K. S. Muralidhar
CEO
0-9849012166
LearnSmart India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
Profile of Mr. K S Muralidhar
Mr. K S Muralidhar is the CEO of Learnsmart India Pvt. Ltd. He has 25years
of expertise in the field of Advertising & Media communication.
He started Learnsmart India in July 2007 with a vision to provide children a
better and stress free system of learning.
Mr. Muralidhar is the visionary behind the concept of 24X7guru.com taking it
from strength to strength to train young minds to have a strong academic
foundation and make Young India intellectually stronger.
Contact Details:
K.S. Muralidhar
CEO
Learnsmart India
0- 98490 12166
Hyderabad
muraliks@24X7guru.com
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