"it is a common pattern among countries like India, Pakistan,SriLanka that they follow the western style in education, skills development, industry development in terms of buying the same expensive equipment, putting same names for the projects and courses, but not implementing the projects in the same way those leading countries operate, " We dont worry about the process, we just worry about the physicaly available tools " "
I have seen, in many schools a computer lab with hundreds of computers but no teachers to teach IT, even at my son's school, ( One of the - Jaffna's leading school). No priority given to computer subjects even by principals as most of them are IT illiterate. I know, How hard to buy a computer for a student of a lower middle-class family? having free computers at their schools is a great gift, but countries which are run by mostly unskilled - visionless political leaders like Sri Lanka would not only be benefited from the physical resources available, Proper plan[The Project], that makes the physical resource usable to knowledge gaining is the key.
In Sri Lanka there are numerous schools with unused computers, Given to schools for the benefits of gifting authority (Tenders )
Now again, TABs are announced at the cost of 5Billion for every A/L student, Minister says student would search the internet to clear their doubts and do self-study! oops! again your plan is giving uncontrolled access to the internet so that students can search good and bad both?
