पुस्तक आदान-प्रदान

Source: Maharashtra Times e paper (Mumbai edition) dated April 8, 2019

रोबोटिक तंत्रज्ञानाची उपयुक्तता

Are we hurting learning and teaching by diverting funds from blackboards to digital boards?

Policy makers seem to be drowning in a sea of buzzwords. This tendency seems particularly marked in “digital” initiatives. Digital, it seems, is the ultimate panacea for every problem. Our classrooms — in schools and universities — will soon be adorned with “digital boards”. These boards “will work on emerging technologies including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics and provide ‘Intelligent Tutoring’ to students based on their personal requirements.” (‘Over 1.5 lakh schools to get digital boards under scheme,’ IE, February 20)The deployment of this technology is expected to improve the quality of teaching-learning and also ensure that graduates are no longer “unsuitable for the requirements of the society and market”. That sounds quite a lot for a digital board to achieve.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/prakash-javadekar-digital-boards-classrooms-right-to-education-5663965/ (Accessed on April 8, 2019)

A ‘million word gap’ for children not read to at home

Parents who read them five books a day help them build a better vocabulary ahead of kindergarten

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than children who were never read to, a study has found.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-million-word-gap-for-children-not-read-to-at-home/article26763466.ece (Accessed on April 8, 2019)

Stir the IPR pot for innovation

Last month, the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Centre (GIPC) released its 7th annual International Intellectual Property (IP) Index, which assesses the IP climate in 50 world economies. India moved from 44th rank in 2018 to 36th in 2019. But, looking at the scores across the eight categories assessed, India comes in well below the average score of the top five economies, and scores considerably lower than the Asia average.

India’s national IP Rights Policy (IPR) was created in 2016. One of its stated objectives was ‘to guide and enable all creators and inventors to realise the potential for generating, protecting and utilising IP which would contribute to wealth creation, employment generation and business development’. It also aimed to ‘foster predictability, clarity and transparency in the entire IP regime in order to provide a secure and stable climate for stimulating inventions and creations’.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/stir-the-ipr-pot-for-innovation/ (Accessed on April 8, 2019)

प्राचार्य होण्यासाठी दहा शोधनिबंध प्रसिद्ध करण्याची अट

Blockchain (Accenture)

It’s changing the future as we speak—but where do you start? Harness Blockchain with real-world applications from the leaders in distributed ledger technologies.

To read the full article, visit:
https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/services/blockchain-index (Accessed on April 5, 2019)