ICT in Non-Formal Education

Opinions:

The following are the opinions of the audience:

• Sukanya Reddy (currently MTech 2nd year in Pilani):
• They teach lessons of physics maths etc. and that is shooted and will be telecasted. They also have some audience basically students form nearby schools who ask questions which are relevant and this gives feel of class.
• Good professional people will be conducting those.. so this is a good media thru which they are sharing their knowledge to all students all around
• But if there is provision so that they can clarify thru that media is not possible.. anyways they say it clearly in a easy way, that all will understand even the person who don't have basics of it.
• one more thing in teleschool they show some experiments which r very lively.
• They also show rear equipments that we use in various feilds. which cannot be done in all the schools.
• Really a good work.


• Chandra Sekhar (Currently MTech 2nd year in NIT Warangal):
• it is based on the fact that visual teaching is more effective than traditional black board teaching.
• Becose human tends to remember things better by visullization rather than listening.
• It is useful for the children at school level as its name suggests, at which stage the improvement of visualisation makes much effect in their thinking.
• Their analytical skills also improve drastically.
Some problems:
• They shud have improved it with new examples even it is targetted to the same classes, examples should change
• Most of the schools in Andhra Pradesh don't have electricity.
• Though the government gave some televisions to some villages in which there is powersupply, they are missusing the telivision sets. In some cases the televisions are taken by the gram sarpanches.
• The Institute is not paying attention in updating the content of the capsules.
• Ex. They shudn't say about how to dial a phone & how to use it by demonstrating with a old phone.
• Gumma Srinivas(MTech03 KReSIT)
  • Tele-school was one of my favorite programs on Tv. I have never missed a
    chance to watch it in my school days.
  • Most of the programs in Tele-school used to be informative and inspiring. I
    still remember many programs that I have watched in tele-school. It had
    field visit sessions in which they used show live working of different
    things like factories etc.,.
  • Some of the sessions I remember watching are:
    "How Newspapers are printed?", in which they have showed all the nitty
    gritties that go into publishing newspaper.
    "Processing of Milk", how milk is collected from different co-operative
    societies in villages, how it is sent to a dairy, where it is processed.
    Pasturising, toning, making milk powder etc., all were covered in that
    session. "Candle making" was also a good session.
  • They run exclusive telecasts on different places like Hyderabad, Machili
    patnam,..
  • In this series history of a place, how that place got such a name, what is
    it famous for, etc., were usually covered.
  • Another series is conducting experiments, in which different experiments are
    conducted. These were very good. I still remember trying to produce
    electricity from a potato when I was in Vi standard, this was inspired one
    of the experiments shown in this program.
  • In short, tele-school was a very good program which was spreading knowledge
    even in remote villages.