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His
Excellency, President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to
Government Higher Primary School, Nagasandra
Bangalore,
July 23, 2004 – His Excellency, President of India, Dr.
APJ Abdul Kalam visited the Government Higher Primary School,
Nagasandra, where 600 children study in class I to VIII. For students
in class III to class VIII, a visit to Computer Aided Learning Center
is an integral part of their school week. The center has seven
computers. Children in groups of three each per computer use story
based content depicted through colourful cartoons with interactive
games to learn Kannada, Math, Environmental Science and other
co-curricular titles. The content is in Kannada and additionally at the
option of the viewer can be in Hindi or English. Azim Premji Foundation
has developed 49 titles in Kannada for the children of Karnataka.
Dr. Kalam interacted with
14 children from class IV to class VIII representing all the classes
who were selected though a process of “lucky dip” conducted in each
class.
After observing the child
centered content, he enquired about the role of the teachers in
Computer Aided Learning Centres (CALC). On being informed that the
teacher introduces the concept in class after which, children used the
content which was followed by consolidation in the class room by
teacher, he appreciated the integration process followed.
The visit to CALC was
followed by an open house interaction with children, where he
encouraged them to ask questions and answered them in the true spirit
of a teacher. Dr. Kalam in his open house interaction emphasized the
importance of dream to set objectives and importance of learning in
achieving results.
Nagasandra Higher Primary
School is one of the 225 schools participating in the Computer Aided
Learning Programme initiated by Azim Premji Foundation for Indian rural
elementary school children in partnership with state government and the
local community. Similar programmes are in place in Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Orissa and Pondicherry in 1,000 schools.
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