It is highly appreciable to see that the Government of Kerala is going to raise the quality of school class rooms on a par with international standards in learning. The international school students read and write English well and are able to do mathematics with ease. But one of the recent surveys on school education in Kerala had revealed that many ot our school students are not able to write their names correctly and very weak in arithmetics.
The class rooms in developed countries are almost saturated with electronic gadgets and teacherട there now are dead against with further dumbing of e - waste into class rooms. Learning this, gadget makers all over the world have, therefore, decided to sell their products among third world countries. The term 'smart class room' has thus become a synonym for transforming third world schools into electronic waste dumbing yards. India is not an exception.
The electronic white board (EWB) or power point presentation is not a substitute for age old teaching practice with black board and chalk. Any hate speak against black board and chalk is a crafty way to destroy able teaching-learning process and thereby to find markets for electronic gadgets produced by multinational companies. Abandoning black board is a technological invasion, the net result of which is; inefficacy in teaching-learning process in our humble class rooms.
Many of our government hospitals are now dumbing yards of disinfuct CT scan machines , ultra sound scanners, computers, x-ray units and even ceiling fans just because poor maintenance. This sort of fate awaits our schools with smart class rooms.
K A Solaman
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