From Director's Desk

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.” ~Bill Beattie

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Dr. K.J.Thankachan

The sustainability of a nation in the era of knowledge economy depends on effective educational productivity. Information & Communication Technology act as a potent and powerful tool for extending educational opportunities to anybody, anywhere and anytime.

                        Globalization and technological change processes that have accelerated in tandem over the past fifteen years have created a new global economy “powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge.” The emergence of this new global economy has serious implications for the nature and purpose of educational institutions. As the half-life of information continues to shrink and access to information continues to grow exponentially, schools cannot remain mere venues for the transmission of a prescribed set of information from teacher to student over a fixed period of time. Rather, schools must promote “learning to learn” i.e., the acquisition of knowledge and skills that make possible continuous learning over the lifetime.

           

This is the high time to focuses on the effective integration of ICTs into the educational system. The  multifaceted process of ICT in education that involves not just technology—indeed, given enough initial capital, getting the technology is the easiest part!—but also curriculum and pedagogy, institutional readiness, teacher competencies, and long-term financing, among others.

I am very much pleased to know that the Computer Club is releasing an online journal viz. INFOHOLIC. It will definitely give a strong IT platform to the students to polish their skills in ICT. On behalf of the Oshwal Education Trust I wish them best returns from venture and may God bless them all. Finally, let me say ‘ Educating  is divine”.
                             
                                                                                                  - Dr. K.J.Thankachan