Nanyang Technological Universityof Singapore and Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation go as planned, school children in one of the poorest districts in India would get 50,000 tablets in the next three years. When bought in bulk, these tablets will be available for just $30-40 from vendors, while Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation would take care of the content that goes into these tablets, labelled I-slate. These entities in association with Rice University (Singapore) and the Andhra Pradesh Government have already been doing a pilot in two Government schools in Mahaboobnagar district by giving school children 30 tablets. “We have been studying the user experience for the last three years. We will be coming out with a detailed paper,” Mr Krishna Palem, a professor at both Rice and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and who created the I-slate.
I-slate is a low-cost learning tool designed for classrooms with no electricity and too few teachers. It is under joint development by the I-slate consortium that includes hardware experts at Rice and Nanyang Technological Universityof Singapore, Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation and a US - based design team. “I-slate is a device designed for a single purpose – education in a low-resource environment. We have talked to manufacturers in China and they agreed to supply these units at $30-40 a piece, if you buy lakh units. The price would gradually go up as the number goes down,” Mr Krishna Palem, who was here to showcase the model, told Business Line. Ms Rajeswari Pingali, Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation Chairperson, said the learning curve had moved up in the user group after they started using the device. Each year, the consortium partners would take the slates back and study and analyse the usage patterns in order to get insights.
Source: The Hindu Business Line
I-slate is a low-cost learning tool designed for classrooms with no electricity and too few teachers. It is under joint development by the I-slate consortium that includes hardware experts at Rice and Nanyang Technological Universityof Singapore, Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation and a US - based design team. “I-slate is a device designed for a single purpose – education in a low-resource environment. We have talked to manufacturers in China and they agreed to supply these units at $30-40 a piece, if you buy lakh units. The price would gradually go up as the number goes down,” Mr Krishna Palem, who was here to showcase the model, told Business Line. Ms Rajeswari Pingali, Villages for Developmentand Learning Foundation Chairperson, said the learning curve had moved up in the user group after they started using the device. Each year, the consortium partners would take the slates back and study and analyse the usage patterns in order to get insights.
Source: The Hindu Business Line
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