National Policy on ICT in School Education

Round Table Discussion on Capacity Building of Teachers and Schools in ICT
September 30, 2008, Hotel Claridges, Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi

A Round Table Discussion on Capacity Building of Teachers and Schools in ICT was organised at Hotel Claridges on September 30, 2008. Shri Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD, Govt of India graced the discussion as chief guest. The agenda of the discussion was:

What are the methods of skilling and re-skilling educators to adapt and to adopt to the changing faces of technology?

How can educators be guided on effective use of these new tools that focus on learning activities, rather than content delivery or general learner management?

How to build buy-in and ownership among educators and motivate them to spearhead the ICT-based education process?

List of Attendees

Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, GOI

S C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, GOI

Jyrki Pulkinnen, Executive Director, Global e-Schools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI)

Prof Mohd. Akhtar Siddiqui, Chairman, National Council for Teacher Education

Dr Babu Sebastian, Director, State Institute of Educational Technology, Government of Kerala

Prof MM Pant, Former Pro Vice- Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University

Dileep Ranjekar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation

Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology and Management Academy

Prof A K Bakhshi, Director, Institute of Life Long Learning, Delhi University

Annie Koshi, Principal, St.Mary's school

Prof Santosh Panda, Director, Staff Training & Research Institute, IGNOU

Prof Ananya S Guha, Jt Director, Regional Services, IGNOU

Dr Prabhjot Kulkarni, Principal, Maharishi Valmiki College of Education

Kusum Warikoo, Director, Banyan Tree Schools

Anshul Sonak, Head- Education (India), Intel

Satish Kaushal, Country Manager - Government & Education (GB), IBM

Neelem Anand, Manager, public private partnership initiatives, IL&FS

S N Uma, Vice President, NIIT-School Learning Solutions

Rajeev Katyaal, Director, Education, Microsoft

Naimur Rahman, Director, One World South Asia

Anand Kumar, Coordinator, Education community, UNSE

Dr. Michael Ward, Senior Education Advisor, DFID

Dr. R Sreedher, Director, CEMCA

S N Goswami, CEO, Media Lab Asia

Anjalee Prakash, CEO, Learning Links Foundation

Vineeta Dixit, CEO, SW Applications, India

Kennit Suresh DEZA KEI, National programme Officer, SDC

Osama Manzar, Founder, DEF

Vivek Ramchandani, Education Project Officer, UNICEF

Ashish Garg, India Programme Director, GeSCI

Dr. Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, CSDMS

Cicilia Barbieri, Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO

Archana Bhambal, State Coordinator, EDC

Rajen Varada, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange

Gitanjali Sah, Research Associate, UN Solution Exchange

Rani Vaid, Maharshi Valmiki College of Education, Delhi University

Mandeep Bhandari, WA Education Manager, Intel

Gulroop Kaur, Head, Computer Department, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon

Aruna Sundarajan, IL& FS

V K Bhatia, Media Lab Asia