Prof. Kiran's observations are the ground realities. On one side
huge information is easily accessible on net, even from foreign
universities. This has led to non-attendance in classrooms,
plagiarism, freely salable material for projects, dissertation and
theses. Faculty is in a confused state. The suggestions made by
Prof. Kiran are appropriate. I would like to add a few:
1. Use the flipped classroom concept.
2. Use extensively mobile and net and go on online communications,
online examinations/class tests/assignments, etc. This will save
national expenses on petrol and diesel, almost all students now use
powered two wheeler, bikes.
3. Reduce contact theory hours/subject to 25% of the present keeping
practical hours almost the same provided the practicals are
performed on machines/equipment in Labs. Presently, one will find
hardly 25% practicals are on equipment, rest are something like:
study of, assignment on, etc.
4. Reducing working hours (actual engagement of theory/ practical
classes vary from 10% to hardly 50% of targets) will need a less
number of faculty and staff reducing financial burden on parents,
making education cheaper.
5. Education needs to be of quality at affordable cost, and easily
accessible to one and all who desire to have it.
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 16:48:19 +0530 wrote
>Dear Sir, All this commercialization has led to poor learning
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outcomes of the pupils. With the rise in huge volume of information
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on the internet, the material for learning is freed from the teacher
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and become impersonal. Student activities are no longer confined to
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the classroom. Learning is spilling over into the other areas such
as
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the playground, the home, in travel or even on a holiday.Learning
and
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its delivery needs to be revisited and the new modes adapted.
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For example, the evaluation of homework project should be done on
the
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basis of a viva or a class presentation rather than mere correction
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of the homework notebooks.
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Best Regards,
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K.Paranjpe.
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 15:45:53 +0530 wrote
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> A lesson in dishonesty: inventing and outsourcing homeworkShivani
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Singh, Hindustan TimesLast summer, my friend decided to give her
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seven-year-old a lesson in self-reliance. She insisted her daughter
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complete her holiday project all by herself. She was there to help--
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got her the material, offered guidance with the internet research
and
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also checked if she got her concepts right. The girl was hoping to
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turn in a decent project.But she came home all teary-eyed after the
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first day back to school. Mostchildren submitted projects of
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professional quality while hers looked amateurish. "If you can't
make
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it for me, let's just buy a project like others do," she told her
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mother.Completing their children's holiday homework is an annual
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summer ritual for many parents I know. They take off from work or
cut
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short their vacations to complete their kids' holiday projects. Many
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sheepishly tell you how it is more convenient to just "buy"
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homework.There are enough freelancers, college students and
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homemakers to do holiday projects for you. In fact, it is a mini
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cottage industry in Delhi and suburbs. These "homework makers"
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advertise on the internet, social networking sites and send out
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flyers to homes or just tie up with neighbourhood textbook
shops.Last
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week, Hindustan Times reported how Delhi's schoolchildren were
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shopping for homework online. The advertising portals offered deals
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with taglines such as "Leave Holiday Homework Worries. Get Holiday
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Homework for all classes done by Experts" and "School Projects and
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Chart papers without your mother getting disturbed (sic)."ForRs.250-
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2,000, you can pick up anything from a revolving solar system, a
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model of a human body, weather systems, plant experiments to
collages
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on wildlife, climate change, people and places; or a readymade
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PowerPoint presentation on any topic for a price. They even provide
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book reports, articles and poems at competitive rates.Most schools
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issue warning to parents against seeking professional help for
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holiday homework. Some even threaten to give negative marks if such
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projects are found to be done by anyone else but the student. But
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some of these assignments are not age appropriate. How can a four-
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year-old, who is yet to handle scissors, be expected to make
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complicated photo frames? Or a seven-year-old make accurate model of
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a monument in Delhi, with only eco-friendly materials? In fact, even
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parents often struggle with their kids' assignments.At a time when
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the authorities have tried to de-stress students by making Class X
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board exams optional and introducing Continuous and Comprehensive
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Evaluation pattern that aims to shift focus from testing memory
alone
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to judging a range of abilities such as imagination and creativity,
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it is surprising that few talk about the practice of holiday
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homework.Experts believe that holiday homework is necessary to
ensure
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retention of concepts over the long break from school. Activity-
based
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projects assigned to kids during holidays can encourage productive
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interaction among the parents and the children. But nobody except
for
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those "homework makers" stands to gain if the projects are just too
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intimidating.But if schools are loading children with age-
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inappropriate homework, parents are making it worse by outsourcing
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something that is meant to develop their ward's independent learning
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skills. This is an early lesson in dishonesty. Lying to her teacher
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and friends that she did the project herself also teaches her that
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money can buy anything.Instead, parents could suggest projects that
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would interest their wards. For this, they need to open
communication
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channels with the school. The best holiday homework is what stokes
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the imagination in young minds. Why not simply ask the children to
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maintain vacation diaries, and maybe also prepare a scrapbook of all
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the activities. They don't need help with logging their own stories
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which, say schools that encourage such simplicity, often turn out to
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be surprisingly original and creative.Educate, Empower, ElevateProf.
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