Tech tools, blogging, radio in school curriculum proposed
Blogging, the recommendations say, should be encouraged to support creative writing
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Pallavi, I am thrilled to see quotations and suggestions from my paper "Technology as a Tool and Enabler in the post-NCF 2005 Constructivist Classroom in India" (http://www.csdms.in/gesci/pdf/ShuchiGrover.pdf) that I submitted in response to a call for papers to help draft a National Policy for ICT in School Education.
I have to clarify though that these are quotes and suggestions from my paper and NOT the draft policy, so your article has misrepresented facts, besides omitting to cite the correct source of your quotes. All the technology tools that you have alluded to- blogging for creative writing, spreadsheets, databases, concept maps, hypermedia & the "use of digital devices like robotics kits, digital microscopes, graphing calculators and GPS devices for science, math and social sciences curricula" come from my paper and NOT the "draft compendium". I do not even know if these recommendations are being considered for implementation in actual Policy!
You may be interested to know that I was invited to a meeting of educationists at NCERT as a follow-up to this - academics and educationists who have unfortunately been sidelined from this process of drafting a National Policy. The process described on the CSDMS website, has saddened several luminaries in the field of education in India, and we are hoping, jointly, as a group, that we will be able to influence the process better than large corporations with vested interested who the MHRD is looking to instead. This group includes, among others Dr. Krishna Kumar, Padma Sarangapani, Poonam Batra, Anjali Noronha, Rohit Dhinkar & Vinod Raina. Read this article by Gurumurthy K.-http://southasia.oneworld.net/opinioncomment/ict-in-education-government2019s-flawed-approach
I expect you to publish a revised version of this article with corrections, without omissions and certainly with appropriate acknowledgments. Thanks!
Shuchi Grover
Educational Technologist
http://educatorslog.in
http://shuchi-edblog.blogspot.com
Shuchi