Indore, (PTI) A group of students is sitting attentively with their eyes firmly glued to a projector on the wall as they learn the Hindi alphabet and counting of numbers with a voiceover guiding them.
This scene is not from an elite private school in a big city, but from a government school in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, where enterprising teachers have pooled in money and developed a smart classroom to provide education through audio-visual medium to students, most of them hailing from poor families.
A primary teacher at government-run Prayogik Madhyamik School, a middle school, Piyush Dubey, told PTI on Monday, “Once I was teaching children with the help of my laptop, when I noticed that students of Classes 1 and 2 were taking special interest in learning from laptop. After this, the idea of preparing a smart classroom for children came to my mind.” He said teachers of the school contributed from their own pockets and collected an amount of Rs 23,000 which was used to purchase a projector and a set of four speakers, and these devices were deployed to develop a smart classroom.
