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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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