Students feel that the 30 minutes of his computer practical class is not sufficient as each student gets not more than five minutes hands-on. However, they are glad that the computer which they had not seen or touched till they joined the Government Pre University College at Peenya, is a "wonder machine" and "user-friendly".
Teachers who have been so used to the chalk and talk method, have come to grips with computers. Thanks, to the training offered by Intel to the teachers and the students of Government schools under the Intel Innovation in Education Initiative.
In association with the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT), Intel has been working in "demystifying" the computer to the underprivileged and the needy.
The India Education Manager of Intel, Ashutosh Chadha, told that the education programme is aimed at professional and capacity development of teachers, besides creating an environment to use technical tools with ease. The programme is for both elementary and secondary schools. It also has technology dissemination programmes for rural and slum children.
Intel works not with computer science teachers but others who wish to learn computers and who do not have the required infrastructure. The master trainers, who have been trained under the programme, then spread the concept of technology-aided teaching and help the implementation of technology supported project based learning (TSPBL).
It is believed that after the introduction of computers in Government schools, the enrolment has gone up. Intel is working on developing technology standards based on the State curriculum, adds Jagannath Rao, Director, DSERT.
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