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Education Content
Development for TAL Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
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BackgroundTechnology is an important aid in achieving large scale impact through education in India. Technology Assisted Learning (TAL) as the name suggests uses technology as a lever in the process of education. The problem encountered by many educators working for under-privileged children is that good educational content is not available in regional languages. This applies equally well to books as to multimedia contents that can be delivered through a computer. Another problem is the cost of such content as is available.Through this project we hope to address these problems. In its immediate form this projects aims to develop contents in Tamil that can be used with Tamilnadu State Board curriculum for all classes. In the future we would also look at contents that can be used independently by students from rural India through Internet kiosks like the infrastructure Nlogue is setting up. The project would be executed using the infrastructure and people at Olcott Memorial High School. Project Bridge would be setting us a multimedia lab at OMHS will 20 computers. These can be used during the spare time and during after-school hours to create the content. Asha would fund this by either paying existing teachers an additional income for creating these lessons or by hiring qualified educators specially for the purpose of creating these contents. The contents thus created would be used in all Asha projects (initially in the projects around Chennai), and be made available to nLogue for use in their Kiosks.
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