How Different is Digitised Learning, Really?
The repute of degree and institutions are not lost because of a shift in the mode of learning-teaching mode, they are lost because of poor teaching, irrespective of the mode employed.
Neeta Dhuri, a teacher for hearing impaired students, takes an online speech therapy session of parents and students during the COVID-19 lockdown in Mumbai. Photo: PTI
Education6 hours ago
For over a year, the battle for effective pedagogies online has raged, and opinion remains, as expected, divided on multiple aspects, from syllabus to assessment and the exacerbated digital inequality. Worries over the collapse of the traditional classroom, the absence of classroom debates, the watered-down syllabi and mass copying have been expressed across the world by educators, administrators and students.
Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India
The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India , edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.
File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters.
Tech06/Feb/2021
About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the data that would be produced by Aadhaar as it was expected to connect to a series of other datasets that practically governed our life. His repeated request to the representatives of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), at a presentation which the latter made on the companyâs premises, was simply to hand over the data to him. For a company whose main line of work was to interpret data for âintelligenceâ, which is to mine data for pointers on how to prolife
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Without President Donald Trump s tweets preserved and accessible in context, the story of his presidency can t be told, says media historian Lisa Gitelman. She explains that how we remember @realDonaldTrump will be key to understanding America s recent history.Read Full Article »