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See and Learn

By: Diptiman Dewan children understand better when they see than when they read.If technology can be made an enabler to let children study subjects with a visual dimension added to books. learning is faster and consequent and dropouts rates of students also decline. "computers bring about a dramatic change from the mundane process of learning at school and reduce dropout rates, as seen in pilot projects we have conducted in Karnataka. using networking technology, teachers and students can see each other real -time.while kids from multiple villages can see and hear one other on screen, they also take the same class together. every child is audible and visible in the different classrooms," explains Aravind Sitaraman, President, Inclusive Growth, CISCO. Cisco is using networking technology to educate children in rural areas. "one teacher- many classrooms" is a method followed whereby students can see the teachers and what he or she teaches; the teacher can point...