Thursday, April 25, 2019

To improve learning levels, stop labelling schools

We need to hold every school accountable for minimum benchmarks of learning. The first step to achieve this is to measure the performance of schools against benchmarks regularly.

Several studies have shown that the learning levels among India’s students are poor. And yet, plans to improve the quality of education remains vague and unintelligent. The 2019 Congress manifesto expresses concern about the outcomes and proposes use of technology-enabled teaching methods to redress the problem. The BJP refers to quality of learning only once in its manifesto and plans to remedy it by improving teacher training and capacity building. But NITI Aayog, the government’s think tank, in its 2017-20 action plan, said teacher training or technology-enabled solutions in isolation are not effective to solve the learning outcome deficit.
While we need many reforms, we must move away from labelling schools as recognised, unrecognised, government and private. Instead, ......

Tesla CEO plans to hand the car keys to robots next year

SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company's electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of an audacious plan to create a network of robotic taxis to compete against Uber and other ride-hailing services.

The vision sketched out Monday during an event at Tesla's Silicon Valley headquarters requires several leaps of faith - something that the zealous investors and consumers who view Musk as a technological genius often are willing to take.


To read the full article, please visit:
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/tesla-ceo-plans-to-hand-the-car-keys-to-robots-next-year/69001996 (Accessed on April 25, 2019)

Trilok Sawant (from SFIT) received Best Innovation Award

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