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The school is among the more successful cases of computer aided learning in the state |
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An aerial view of the school |
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The headmaster and 'Baba' an old peon, who works in school more out of charity -- he is in fact one of the founders of the school |
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This young man sold candy floss (called Bombay Laddu in Orissa) outside the school and studied in evening classes, occasionally |
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Class one given the run through on obedience from the start |
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Class 3 students also neatly lined up, and reminded not to be too expressive for the visiting guests |
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This class 7 teacher echoed a seemingly universal rural concern - teaching English pronunciation |
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All children standing in line holding back grins are not given free uniforms in this school - only those from backward classes get them |
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Generally, games with more objects on screen and less dialogue seemed to provoke greater interaction by the groups |
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The school has a small pond (pukuri) quite common throughout Orissa, a lush and beautiful land |
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The brick stove area for cooking the mid-day meals for the school children |
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Empty mid-day meal area -- since the cook did not show up on account of a festival |
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The area just outside the school |
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The headmaster uses anatomy teaching material to underline the problems with teaching science subjects in the school |
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The headmaster shows teaching materials in Geography, an area which he feels computer aided learning can be very useful for |
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In this group, both the girls in the center were among the higher achievers in regular classes, the flankers were mostly afraid of the machine |
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A kid with a watch, among the school's richer and smarter, monopolizes the PC, while the outliers look away |
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Three Aptech coordinators are in charge of making sure the teachers are trained in basic computing, and that the systems in place work |
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The school groups kids among "leaders" (ie. the smartest) who in turn teach the weaker. Notice clustering among these... |
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The question for Class 2 - "Which of you has been in the computer class?" |
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The question for Class 6 - "Which of you knows how to use a computer?" |
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Just outside the school, buses load and unload passengers, from all parts of their carrying capacity |
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Leaving Cuttack, this sign is common -- what is surprising is that these buses go over shifty roads in considerable speed |
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And the Jeeps take their fair share of the underserved transit leftover |
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Oriya films, glorious ways of spending the warm summer evenings, if only the airconditioning works |
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Nishamani theater - a part of growing up in Cuttack, apparently |
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Unbelievably plush hotel that I got booked into by the travel agent for the first night, suitable for development workers |
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