PROJECTS IN EDUCATION (In Progress

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PROJECTS IN EDUCATION(In Progress Planned)

• Dr. M V Ananthakrishnan
• Media Lab Asia
• Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
• October December 2004

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• ACTIVITIES
• VIGYAN ASHRAM
• Pabal Schools
• Vocational Education
• NOMADIC TRIBES
• Ambernath Camp
• Sholapur Precincts
• DISSEMINATION
• IHCI 2004, Bangalore
• AISECT2004, Bhopal

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• ACTIVITIES Vigyan Ashram
• Vocational Training
• Trade Practices
• Scientific Concepts
• Management Skills
• Pabal Schools
• Courses Current Practices
• IT-enabled Courseware

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• ACTIVITIES Nomadic Tribes
• Medhangijoshi Ambernath
• Visit I
• Dedicated Teacher
• Traditional Methods (Board, Charts)
• Ignorance of social awareness/hygiene
• Visit 2
• Children divided into two groups (1 Multimedia
  2 Traditional)
• Finding
• Recall of Group 2 better than 1
• Attraction of Group 1 better than 2
• Suggestion
• Hybrid of multimedia traditional teaching

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• ACTIVITIES Nomadic Tribes
• Tuljapur
• Magar Sanghvi
• Robbing Hunting as a profession
• Dedicated Teacher
• Students attend day school and camp school
• Camp children divided into three groups based on
  learning/retention abilities
• Awareness of alphabets, numbers, words from the
  local environment
• Use of flash cards for words, colours, alphabets,
  numbers
• Child marriage in evidence
• Popular sports (kho kho, kabaddi, cricket,
  soccer)
• Films (mostly Marathi)

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• ACTIVITIES Nomadic Tribes
• Umarga
• Masand Jogi
• Magic, stunts illusions road-show as a
  profession
• Dedicated Teacher
• 4-14 years age group
• Camp children divided into four groups based on
  knowledge levels in Maths, English Hindi)
• Awareness of alphabets, numbers, words problems
  with recalling number sequence starting randomly
  Hindi/Marathi details linited
• Irregular attendance
• Child marriage in evidence
• Health Hygiene issues ( Skin diseases)
• Entertainment singing, musical instruments,
  street shows
• Ladies also involved in business (buying
  selling ladies goods)

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• ACTIVITIES Nomadic Tribes
• Yemgarwadi
• Nomad School
• 300 students (80 girls) age group 4-16 years
  Classes I-Viii
• Children from all over provided books, dresses,
  boarding lodging
• Initial resistance to leave home only to find the
  school safer
• 10 girls go on to Pune for higher studies
• Awareness of alphabets, numbers, words from the
  local environment
• Problems
• Polygamy Polyandry
• Family feuds
• Girl child marriages

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• DISSEMINATION
• IHCI 2004 Bangalore
• TEACHING OF GRAPHICAL INTERFACES An Experience
• TCS Experience
• Natural Interfaces
• Case Study Critique
• AISECT 2004 Bhopal
• ICT FOR THE LESS PRIVELEGED Some Experiments
• TCS MLA experiences
• Appropriate adaptation of IT to handle issues of
  the less privileged
• Avenues/opportunities for projects

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• NEW PROJECTS (Initiated)
• NOMADS
• Instructional Design Courseware development
• Infrastructure support
• Faculty Development
• Field Tests
• Follow-up Monitoring
• Enrichment Enhancement
• VIGYAN ASHRAM
• Course identification
• Instructional Design
• Courseware development
• Field tests
• Faculty Development

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• NEW PROJECTS (Planned)
• EVOLVING GUIDELINES FOR CULTURE-BASED INTERFACES
• Study of various cultures in India
• Identification of unique culture/tradition for a
  community/sect
• Identification of icons and metaphors specific to
  a culture
• Design Development of an interface
• Identification of cultural factors common across
  interfaces
• Evolution of guidelines for an interface
• Application of guidelines to a new interface
• Documentation of issues and possible remedies

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• NEW PROJECTS Planned
• Adaptation of aAQUA to Education
• Creating an education database (instead of
  agriculture as of now)
• Populating with knowledge, information, data etc
  on a couple of subjects (science, maths)
• Identifying subject experts
• Hosting for public access
• Testing for query rates and types
• Testing for capacity and response time
• Extension to related areas
• Analysis of data on user profiles, hits, query
  types, responses and delays
• Refinement or flexibility

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• DEVELOPMENT TEAM
• CORE
• Dr. M V Ananthakrishnan
• Mr. Yogesh Kulkarni
• Ms. Prajakta Patil
• Mr. Abhishek Thakkar
• Mr. Rahul Swami
• TWO to be recruited (Social Sciences background)
• PROJECT SPECIFIC
• Mr. Siddharth Nair
• Mr. Varun Chandrasekhar
• TWO to be recruited/hired ( content-specific)

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DISCUSSIONS