The ICT and Education: from Blackboard to Keyboard

Abstract

Barring the sacred exception of the education of the Upanisadic age, which was happily informal, in nature and kind, under the prevailing system of education with its population explosion and change of pattern, evidently formal, certain letters of the alphabet and matters, academic, are placed before the brimming educands who, through books and birches are made to be swallowed by the educands. The existing process of teaching is hectic and the practice is-more often than not-inhuman. As a result the learners try to save their examination and with it their lives by rote or otherwise, and, further to that, they shed enough tears and develop enough fears regarding the teachers, educational institutes and education at large. The learners seldom under the existing system have joy, comfort and efficiency in education and music of life. And thus the hapless educands, young and, youthful grow altogether hopeless, frustrated and even horrified.