Kids today are often referred to as “digital natives”. They enjoy being able to express themselves through the many digital technologies that they are so facile with; technologies that they would enjoy putting to use for the purposes of learning (and school work) as well.

This video was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills and be better prepared to succeed in the century. read more

Imagine a History assignment where a student must submit a write-up on Mughal Architecture (or the form it takes as an oft-asked question in exams - "the contributions of Shah Jahan to Indian Archtecture"). Or a "project" on the temples of India. Think of the way this is usually done - a hand-written write-up with pictures cut and pasted into the notebook. Or in schools where students have access to computers this would take the form of a Word document with text and images or perhaps a powerpoint presentation with text and images. read more

Michael Wesch (mwesch on youtube), he of the The Machine is Us/ing Us fame, spoke at length on the anthropology of Youtube in an entertaining and enlightening lecture delivered at the Library of Congress about a month ago. read more

This is an article written for the New York Times by a self-professed techno-optimist about the coming of age of technology use in classrooms after years of bumbling and trying and testing.

The context is US schools and quite different from the average school in India in terms of access to technology -  "The ratio of computers to pupils is one to one. Technology isn’t off in a computer lab. read more

Now what is Twitter I ask? And what do the terms like Furl, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg etc mean? I personally have a very long way to go when it comes to understanding the new terminology related with working online.

Here is an article that I came across just yesterday and thought that this thing called Twitter was allowing children to "chirp" their way through, crossing all boundaries of countries and cultures. This facility allowed them to write a book, together.  Do read further - it sure made me marvel at the extent technology is advancing in leaps and bounds. read more

It's not about YOU or ME or I today, it's about US, and what WE can accomplish together. read more

This post is inspired by a curriculum question raised on educatorslog.in by Madhuri Kadkol recently. I did respond to her post, but here's my cohesive, comprehensive collation of curriculum ideas along with a guiding philosophy for Middle School Technology/Computer Studies. read more

I recently wrote a couple of posts on my blog on Google's transliteration tools (for 5 Indian languages - Hindi & the 4 languages of S. India), and the recent release of Google's English-Hindi-English automated translation tools which allow a 1-click translation of any web page in English into Hindi.

The implications for the use of the Internet in education in India (in the India not inhabited by the English-speaking population of the Metros) are huge, in my view. read more

Hi everyone!

I have created a wiki (http://india-edubloggers.wikispaces.com/) in an effort to compile a list of all edubloggers in India, who blog on individual blogs or group blogs/forums (like this one).

[edublogger n. A person who writes entries in, adds material to, or maintains a weblo read more

I recently wrote an elog on Web 2.0 and "Web 2.0 in Education" and also shared a resource on how to get started with blogging - blogs being among the most popular web 2.0 technologies. read more