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#Presentation to Secondary School Principals. Academy of Educational Planning is the main Policy and planning institute of the Ministry of Education. On AEPAM’s request we made a half day presentation and provided a hands-on opportunity to about 50 participants. The first part of the presentation dealt with the constructivist theory underlying OLPC where as the second part was confined to provide a hand-on opportunity to the principals to explore OLPC which was followed by QA session. Principals greatly appreciated the concept of olpc and we totally flabbergasted to handle and use the XO laptop. Their amazement was further enhanced when the tested the localized version of the XO. They gave very useful suggestions for improvement and stressed the need for digitized e-textbooks so as to reduce on conserving trees in the country. |
#Presentation to Secondary School Principals. Academy of Educational Planning is the main Policy and planning institute of the Ministry of Education.[[Image:A00041.jpg|thumb|right|Teacher and Head of Schools with XO]]On AEPAM’s request we made a half day presentation and provided a hands-on opportunity to about 50 participants. The first part of the presentation dealt with the constructivist theory underlying OLPC where as the second part was confined to provide a hand-on opportunity to the principals to explore OLPC which was followed by QA session. Principals greatly appreciated the concept of olpc and we totally flabbergasted to handle and use the XO laptop. Their amazement was further enhanced when the tested the localized version of the XO. They gave very useful suggestions for improvement and stressed the need for digitized e-textbooks so as to reduce on conserving trees in the country. |
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#There were very intriguing questions by teacher leaders such as for example why Pakistan lagged behind in deployment and related inquires. Principals however contemplated the strategy of approaching the MoE through Teacher Unions all over the country. |
#There were very intriguing questions by teacher leaders such as for example why Pakistan lagged behind in deployment and related inquires. Principals however contemplated the strategy of approaching the MoE through Teacher Unions all over the country. |
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[[Image:A00034.jpg|thumb|left|Dr Habib Khan showing XO]] |
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Revision as of 18:21, 26 April 2008
Presentation in the Ministry of Education, Islamabad
- Presentation to Secondary School Principals. Academy of Educational Planning is the main Policy and planning institute of the Ministry of Education.On AEPAM’s request we made a half day presentation and provided a hands-on opportunity to about 50 participants. The first part of the presentation dealt with the constructivist theory underlying OLPC where as the second part was confined to provide a hand-on opportunity to the principals to explore OLPC which was followed by QA session. Principals greatly appreciated the concept of olpc and we totally flabbergasted to handle and use the XO laptop. Their amazement was further enhanced when the tested the localized version of the XO. They gave very useful suggestions for improvement and stressed the need for digitized e-textbooks so as to reduce on conserving trees in the country.
- There were very intriguing questions by teacher leaders such as for example why Pakistan lagged behind in deployment and related inquires. Principals however contemplated the strategy of approaching the MoE through Teacher Unions all over the country.
