Round Table Discussion on Capacity Building of Teachers and Schools in ICT
September 30, 2008, Hotel Claridges, Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi
A Round Table Discussion on Capacity Building of Teachers and Schools in ICT was organised at Hotel Claridges on September 30, 2008. Shri Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD, Govt of India graced the discussion as chief guest.
The agenda of the discussion was:
- What are the methods of skilling and re-skilling educators to adapt and to adopt to the changing faces of technology?
- How can educators be guided on effective use of these new tools that focus on learning activities, rather than content delivery or general learner management?
- How to build buy-in and ownership among educators and motivate them to spearhead the ICT-based education process?
List of Attendees
- Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, GOI
- S C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, GOI
- Jyrki Pulkinnen, Executive Director, Global e-Schools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
- Prof Mohd. Akhtar Siddiqui, Chairman, National Council for Teacher Education
- Dr Babu Sebastian, Director, State Institute of Educational Technology, Government of Kerala
- Prof MM Pant, Former Pro Vice- Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University
- Dileep Ranjekar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation
- Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology and Management Academy
- Prof A K Bakhshi, Director, Institute of Life Long Learning, Delhi University
- Annie Koshi, Principal, St.Mary’s school
- Prof Santosh Panda, Director, Staff Training & Research Institute, IGNOU
- Prof Ananya S Guha, Jt Director, Regional Services, IGNOU
- Dr Prabhjot Kulkarni, Principal, Maharishi Valmiki College of Education
- Kusum Warikoo, Director, Banyan Tree Schools
- Anshul Sonak, Head- Education (India), Intel
- Satish Kaushal, Country Manager – Government & Education (GB), IBM
- Neelem Anand, Manager, public private partnership initiatives, IL&FS
- S N Uma, Vice President, NIIT-School Learning Solutions
- Rajeev Katyaal, Director, Education, Microsoft
- Naimur Rahman, Director, One World South Asia
- Anand Kumar, Coordinator, Education community, UNSE
- Dr. Michael Ward, Senior Education Advisor, DFID
- Dr. R Sreedher, Director, CEMCA
- S N Goswami, CEO, Media Lab Asia
- Anjalee Prakash, CEO, Learning Links Foundation
- Vineeta Dixit, CEO, SW Applications, India
- Kennit Suresh DEZA KEI, National programme Officer, SDC
- Osama Manzar, Founder, DEF
- Vivek Ramchandani, Education Project Officer, UNICEF
- Ashish Garg, India Programme Director, GeSCI
- Dr. Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, CSDMS
- Cicilia Barbieri, Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO
- Archana Bhambal, State Coordinator, EDC
- Rajen Varada, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange
- Gitanjali Sah, Research Associate, UN Solution Exchange
- Rani Vaid, Maharshi Valmiki College of Education, Delhi University
- Mandeep Bhandari, WA Education Manager, Intel
- Gulroop Kaur, Head, Computer Department, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon
- Aruna Sundarajan, IL& FS
- V K Bhatia, Media Lab Asia
