Digital Education in India

Yesterday when I came home from work, I found my younger brother, who is in 7 th standard now, sitting with bundles of paper around him. With curiosity I asked him what these papers are about. He told me those papers were of his academic tests that were conducted throughout the year. He kept on adding papers to bundles and I started wondering exactly what purpose these tests are serving and how is any school able to keep record of each student with so many bundles of papers. The value addition of such tests is indeed a concern. CCE (Continuous & Comprehensive Examination) is introduced in all CBSE schools for overall evaluation of students. The main purpose of CCE is to make teaching – learning experience tension free and enjoyable. Under this, tests are conducted on weekly basis. The syllabus for it will be that covered in respective weeks. The results of these tests show where students need more guidance and improvements. This in turn makes each and every student fully prepa...

The human race is progressing at its best pace in this generation. The last 20 years have seen developments from the personal computer to data storage devices the size of your fingernail. Everything in today’s world is required to be fast, organized, extremely responsive and dynamic to the user’s needs. Image Source: www.techeblog.com There was a time not so long ago when paperwork pre-dominated all aspects of work. From something like sending a message across to analyzing huge amounts of data, it was all done on paper, by hand. Even in today’s time, most government offices rely on paper records than online data to provide service to the masses. There was something else that lived through. Examinations have since time immemorial been done on paper. Keeping with tradition, exam papers are sorted, checked and piled along with millions of such sets in a government facility somewhere. What we get in return is also a piece of paper that we have to protect with utmost...