April 16, 2010
The Right To Education ,2009
Can we have the remedies to all the national problems by providing a vaccine of the Constitution? I very seriously doubt in this sort of arrangement and wish that to provide the constiutional arm rest will further relax the authorities and will absolve of their duties and the resposibilities . The experience of the past in many context speaks of the volume of it ...take the case of the reservation to the socially backward people .....It is well known to everyone that it is here also the Creamy layer which is the real beneficiary rather than the people who really deserve it....I have no reason not to believe that the same may also happen with RTE ,which is meant to provide the Rights of education to those who want to have the edcation and have not been to school but in reality such people are even ignorant of such rights .....Can we have really rights of education to those who really are in need of it ....
January 3, 2010
December 27, 2009
Can we ensure a Quality in Teachers?
A very common mantra which most of the "styled" educationists are buzzing these days is about the Q!This Q denotes the quality -which is a borrowed concept of the industry and the management , has some how because of these styled educationists of the west, came to the shores of India to have a complete grinding of this thought so viciously and with such a vigour and vitality that after being applied almost on every academic and professional fields in India, it ultimately came to rest to bring dynamism in the teacher education of India. It is a point to ponder upon for a second that it was this India , the Bharat which in ancient times was the guru of the Universe what to talk of this world . How about the borrowed concept of Quality then? We know there was never any QUALITY like concept even then but still we were having the rishis like of the Vashishts, the Agasthyas,the Dhronacharyas,the VedVyass,........Likewise we had the shishyas likes of the Rams, the laxmans, the Arjuns .....including of the Ravanas and the Ka'nnas'......And in the recent past and the times times, the Bharat produced, without having the concept of the Quality in the education ,the great likes of MK Gandhis, the Tagores, the Bhabhas and the APJ Kalams. The point which I am referring to here is the Commitment which is more important than the concept of the Quality to ensure the right and true education . I am not to poke my nose in other countries educational affairs but in India definitely, we need first the schooling for every Indian rather to look for the QUALITY in the education.The need of the hour is to provide the basic infrastructure of our schooling, the teachers.....which we as Indian for last so many decades to be able to achieve.. Least to forget that all such nations who are fanning the quality in education whether in the elementary education or at higher stages of education ,are such who have already attained almost perfect and complete universalisation of the elementary education. But how about India where it is a distant dream to be realised.....So the most teachers are to have an important and like a catalyst role of along with the other stakeholders to bring the students to the portals of the Vidyalayas and to impart them the education. It can be ensured only if the teachers are to committed for this cause. Remember the teacher is to very significant in this space . It is the teacher who is to very important in this partnership and no quality institution can ensure it because the teaching as well as the learning is the behavioral aspect. So,the need is to ensure the welfare of the teachers and the taught and in case if we could ensure it , the transformation of India will not be on very fast wheel but also smooth for the Unity and the integration of the India. Once this is achieved, the quality will automatiacally creep into rather than to call for it. ( to be continued)
Looking forward for your feedback ......
February 10, 2007
Do we need to change our Curriculum and mind set?
In India it is almost a habit with our academic institutions that there is revision of acdemic component called as curriculum on the structured lines and never likes do some thing which may be brain storming not only to the students but also for the faculty .So we adopt a cosmetic technique of adding something and removing something out of the course content whereas we should believe that even western countries are not becoming very liberal on this account and that is why in Great Britain, the established texts of Milton and co. are replaced by Anita Desai Meera Syal & Benjamin Zephaniah. This is not for the amendments or the corrections to appease rather it is about making education as dynamic a learning experience as possible rather than let it remain trapped in the past. English-language literature is no longer bound by geography or race. The changing complexion of curricula is now a universal feature, and increasingly, pop-culture and pulp fiction are being included to better represent prevailing trends. The inclusion of Shobhaa De's work is in course material of London University. Like wise as Prof .Yash Paul advocates that we should do away with the exams system. In my opinion very right that a knowledge can’t be demarcated by the traditional, book centric examinations. Rather, the things should be otherwise and in the changing societies even SMS, a language that is evolving through electronic technology has now found space in schools – some even permit it in answer sheets. The point is not the rote learning is to be tested rather the facility of understanding and the constructing of knowledge should be the motive. I feel that to have free knowledge society , one need to come out of the past rigid matrix of the learning society. The times are changing, so is the technology and then why not to change the curriculum as well as mind set of our pseudo academicians .It is need of the India.
February 8, 2007
Educational Leadership:An Individual or A Collective endeavor Abstract
In his recent book on “Management fads in higher education, Robert Birnbaum (2000) traces the life cycle of management strategies in colleges and universities over the last four decades focusing on the reasons why they emerge and fail, as well as how they can be used proactively. Two points Birnbaum emphasizes have a particular relevance in this context. First, management strategies aimed at improving institutional operations and performance are typically rooted in a broader context and it happens because of external pressures. Second he argues that one of the most significant reasons that managerial strategies fail is that they do not succeed in attracting the allegiance or support of large numbers of institutional administrators or faculty. Management fads die fairly predictable deaths because they rarely become a shared platform for improving institutional operations and performance. In order to be institutional leader, one must be not only be sharing but also cooperative.
The Difference
Educational administration is different to any other type of administration and especially from public administration. In public administration, there is always maintaince of law and order which in most of the cases alienates the administrator from a common man. Even in the developmental tasks, the officers hardly maintain any productive relationship
The Difference
Educational administration is different to any other type of administration and especially from public administration. In public administration, there is always maintaince of law and order which in most of the cases alienates the administrator from a common man. Even in the developmental tasks, the officers hardly maintain any productive relationship
Building ICT Skills in Teachers to be the ICTs
Abstract
Since the 1990’s India has undergone a massive transformation in its economy because of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG). Under the influence, of LPG, the education has been very quick to respond to LPG and changed its national character to international content and context. That is why, internationalization of education particularly in higher education is need of the hour and it is one of trade under GATT in WTO, of which India is a signatory. In order to equip out products for the international market, we need not only a qualitative teachers but in the form of teachers, they are to be the best Innovators, Communicators and Technology users (ICTs). So, the futuristic classrooms will have teachers who are ICT trained i.e. the teachers who Innovates (I) the learning and teaching process in the different ways for different needs of students with whom he/she is communicating (C) in a paradigm shift from teaching to learning and probably these two situations can be best enacted, in a technology (T) based classrooms but for it the teachers needs to be skilled.
For more details please mail me at rajeevrattansharma@gmail.com
Since the 1990’s India has undergone a massive transformation in its economy because of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG). Under the influence, of LPG, the education has been very quick to respond to LPG and changed its national character to international content and context. That is why, internationalization of education particularly in higher education is need of the hour and it is one of trade under GATT in WTO, of which India is a signatory. In order to equip out products for the international market, we need not only a qualitative teachers but in the form of teachers, they are to be the best Innovators, Communicators and Technology users (ICTs). So, the futuristic classrooms will have teachers who are ICT trained i.e. the teachers who Innovates (I) the learning and teaching process in the different ways for different needs of students with whom he/she is communicating (C) in a paradigm shift from teaching to learning and probably these two situations can be best enacted, in a technology (T) based classrooms but for it the teachers needs to be skilled.
For more details please mail me at rajeevrattansharma@gmail.com
A Need to Include Cyber Laws Education In General Academics of Children
INTRODUCTION
Increasingly younger children are getting caught in this whirl-pool of cybercrime. From harmless pranksters to juvenile delinquents, the transition is attaining larger proportions with each passing day. As millions of youngsters log on to the Net, the rate of crimes committed by them or on them is also rising. With these unsuspecting and impressionable young minds becoming susceptible to committing offences or being victimised, Mumbai police recently introduced a program to educate school children on cyber crime and their grave legal implications. According to the Principal Vidya Valley School, such an effort would be more than welcome. "With tech-savvy students, awareness on the proper use of the Internet and the its misuse, is the need of the hour . An authority figure stepping in, cyber misdemeanors certainly will be more effective than an ordinary citizen doing it. However, parents should be equally involved in this education since it is at home that kids have free access to the Internet," she comments.
Inder Raj Bhalla, of Network Security Solutions, a firm into protecting companies against cyber crimes, says "Such initiatives are certainly a great help. Cyber crime is a big problem and enlightening students on the issue will definitely prove helpful in nipping the problem at the bud," he states. With students as young as 12-13 getting hooked on to the Internet, what is the right age to start educating kids against cyber delinquency? It is just with learning of computers.Like wise , Mumbai Crime Branch revealed the police's ongoing efforts towards educating the general public against cyber crime. "The efforts of Mumbai police are certainly laudable. We are, at present, concentrating on educating businessmen and corporates. However, we also plan to start such initiatives in schools soon."
So the education of the cyber crime is important as the children must be knowing their do’s and don’ts.
IMPORTANCE
Although the Internet and other forms of electronic communication offer new and exciting opportunities for children, they also expose children to new threats.
Parents not only expect that schools will educate their children, they also want them to provide safe learning environments. Such crime destroys the safety of that environment and makes it more difficult for children to concentrate on the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn.
Rohas Nagpal, Director, Asian School of Cyber Laws reveals a movement launched by their organisation called FACT (Freedom Against Abuse of Children through Technology). "We deliver lectures in schools and college free of cost since knowledge is essential for the prevention of cyber crime," he comments. McAfee says that computer users are at risk from a range of criminal activities - often commited by gullible youngsters. A pan-European study into organised crime and the Internet reveals how irrestistable the Internet is to criminals who see it as a low risk way of making money.
'Aside from the scale that's available, and the fact that they don't have to be there to commit the crime, there isn't the legislation to subsequently apprehend them after the event` said Lee Fisher, McAfee Security Strategist. `These opportunities didn't exist before the Internet. And this makes it more attractive than traditional crimes.
THE NEED TO EDUCATE THE LAWS OF CYBER CRIMES TO CHILDREN
It is time of information and as such the old concept that it is not right for children as either one is too tough or too difficult is to be shed. Because besides education we are also resposible for their safe conduct in society and to make them thr good users of modern technology . So it is important for them to learn law relating the good use and even of the misuse of computers and their applications like of intenet. But before doing so , it is resposibility of the teachers mainly and also of parents how and why computers should not be misused .
The Computer as a Target (using a computer to attack other computers):
It is needed to tell the children the ethical and legal implications of unauthorized entry into an information system through hacking or viruses. Hacking can take a variety of forms, ranging from stealing passwords and classified information to vandalizing Web sites. Talk with the child about the ethical and legal implications of hacking.
The computer as a weapon (using a computer to commit real world crimes)
Take, for instance, email. Children believe email is harmless because they don't see the impact on the person who receives it. A growing trend with the use of email andchat programs is harassment; children are saying things to other children-both at school and in other communities-that they would never say face-to face .Parents and teachers need to teach their children about appropriate communication through email and chat programs. Again here the legal implications of it need to be told either by the school if messages happened to be of objections under laws.
LAWS ENACTMENT
While opinions on what constitutes an appropriate cyber security legal framework vary more widely than data privacy, there is a basic set of laws to which both the United States, and most governments in the European Union subscribe- Council of Europe Convention. The CoE Convention has been signed by 38 nations and ratified by 8. It has been submitted to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee for ratification. Signatories include most countries in the European Union, plus Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States. India (and other nations) may be invited to accede to the CoE Convention on Cybercrime per Article 37. The Convention contains 48 different articles, outlining a common minimum set of cyber crime principles that participating nations should adopt. About half of the CoE articles relate to defining a nation’s cyber laws, and about half relate to promoting international cooperation for enforcement of cross-border infringements. India falls short of CoE provisions in a few areas, including:
• Misuse of Devices (Article 6)
•Computer-Related Forgery (Article 7)
•Computer-Related Fraud (Article 8)
•Child Pornography (Article 9)
•Preservation of Stored Data (Article 16)
•Expedited Preservation & Disclosure of Traffic Data (Article 17)
India appears to be in compliance with several key articles from the CoE Convention, including:
• Illegal Access (Article 2)
•Illegal Interception (Article 3)
•Data & System Interference (Articles 4-5)
•Aiding & Abetting a cyber crime (Article 11)
•Corporate Liability (Article 12)
So there is greater need of keeping update with the international laws as cyber crime does not know any boundaries.
CONCLUSIONS Of course the laws are not the final words for controlling a crime in society but as far as the cyber crimes are concerned with children, laws can definitely act as deterrents of such misadventures. The knowledge of laws can surly be put to rest wrong use of cyber technology including mobile technology either because of curiosity or because of some intentions. The episodes of Delhi school MMS or threatening e-mails can be definitely checked provided there is good use of laws.The best way to prevent cyber crime is to educate children about the types of cyber crimes crimes, the cost of cyber crime to the victims, and the consequences for committing such crimes.
Its Not a complete paper.... for complete paper mail me.
Increasingly younger children are getting caught in this whirl-pool of cybercrime. From harmless pranksters to juvenile delinquents, the transition is attaining larger proportions with each passing day. As millions of youngsters log on to the Net, the rate of crimes committed by them or on them is also rising. With these unsuspecting and impressionable young minds becoming susceptible to committing offences or being victimised, Mumbai police recently introduced a program to educate school children on cyber crime and their grave legal implications. According to the Principal Vidya Valley School, such an effort would be more than welcome. "With tech-savvy students, awareness on the proper use of the Internet and the its misuse, is the need of the hour . An authority figure stepping in, cyber misdemeanors certainly will be more effective than an ordinary citizen doing it. However, parents should be equally involved in this education since it is at home that kids have free access to the Internet," she comments.
Inder Raj Bhalla, of Network Security Solutions, a firm into protecting companies against cyber crimes, says "Such initiatives are certainly a great help. Cyber crime is a big problem and enlightening students on the issue will definitely prove helpful in nipping the problem at the bud," he states. With students as young as 12-13 getting hooked on to the Internet, what is the right age to start educating kids against cyber delinquency? It is just with learning of computers.Like wise , Mumbai Crime Branch revealed the police's ongoing efforts towards educating the general public against cyber crime. "The efforts of Mumbai police are certainly laudable. We are, at present, concentrating on educating businessmen and corporates. However, we also plan to start such initiatives in schools soon."
So the education of the cyber crime is important as the children must be knowing their do’s and don’ts.
IMPORTANCE
Although the Internet and other forms of electronic communication offer new and exciting opportunities for children, they also expose children to new threats.
Parents not only expect that schools will educate their children, they also want them to provide safe learning environments. Such crime destroys the safety of that environment and makes it more difficult for children to concentrate on the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn.
Rohas Nagpal, Director, Asian School of Cyber Laws reveals a movement launched by their organisation called FACT (Freedom Against Abuse of Children through Technology). "We deliver lectures in schools and college free of cost since knowledge is essential for the prevention of cyber crime," he comments. McAfee says that computer users are at risk from a range of criminal activities - often commited by gullible youngsters. A pan-European study into organised crime and the Internet reveals how irrestistable the Internet is to criminals who see it as a low risk way of making money.
'Aside from the scale that's available, and the fact that they don't have to be there to commit the crime, there isn't the legislation to subsequently apprehend them after the event` said Lee Fisher, McAfee Security Strategist. `These opportunities didn't exist before the Internet. And this makes it more attractive than traditional crimes.
THE NEED TO EDUCATE THE LAWS OF CYBER CRIMES TO CHILDREN
It is time of information and as such the old concept that it is not right for children as either one is too tough or too difficult is to be shed. Because besides education we are also resposible for their safe conduct in society and to make them thr good users of modern technology . So it is important for them to learn law relating the good use and even of the misuse of computers and their applications like of intenet. But before doing so , it is resposibility of the teachers mainly and also of parents how and why computers should not be misused .
The Computer as a Target (using a computer to attack other computers):
It is needed to tell the children the ethical and legal implications of unauthorized entry into an information system through hacking or viruses. Hacking can take a variety of forms, ranging from stealing passwords and classified information to vandalizing Web sites. Talk with the child about the ethical and legal implications of hacking.
The computer as a weapon (using a computer to commit real world crimes)
Take, for instance, email. Children believe email is harmless because they don't see the impact on the person who receives it. A growing trend with the use of email andchat programs is harassment; children are saying things to other children-both at school and in other communities-that they would never say face-to face .Parents and teachers need to teach their children about appropriate communication through email and chat programs. Again here the legal implications of it need to be told either by the school if messages happened to be of objections under laws.
LAWS ENACTMENT
While opinions on what constitutes an appropriate cyber security legal framework vary more widely than data privacy, there is a basic set of laws to which both the United States, and most governments in the European Union subscribe- Council of Europe Convention. The CoE Convention has been signed by 38 nations and ratified by 8. It has been submitted to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee for ratification. Signatories include most countries in the European Union, plus Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States. India (and other nations) may be invited to accede to the CoE Convention on Cybercrime per Article 37. The Convention contains 48 different articles, outlining a common minimum set of cyber crime principles that participating nations should adopt. About half of the CoE articles relate to defining a nation’s cyber laws, and about half relate to promoting international cooperation for enforcement of cross-border infringements. India falls short of CoE provisions in a few areas, including:
• Misuse of Devices (Article 6)
•Computer-Related Forgery (Article 7)
•Computer-Related Fraud (Article 8)
•Child Pornography (Article 9)
•Preservation of Stored Data (Article 16)
•Expedited Preservation & Disclosure of Traffic Data (Article 17)
India appears to be in compliance with several key articles from the CoE Convention, including:
• Illegal Access (Article 2)
•Illegal Interception (Article 3)
•Data & System Interference (Articles 4-5)
•Aiding & Abetting a cyber crime (Article 11)
•Corporate Liability (Article 12)
So there is greater need of keeping update with the international laws as cyber crime does not know any boundaries.
CONCLUSIONS Of course the laws are not the final words for controlling a crime in society but as far as the cyber crimes are concerned with children, laws can definitely act as deterrents of such misadventures. The knowledge of laws can surly be put to rest wrong use of cyber technology including mobile technology either because of curiosity or because of some intentions. The episodes of Delhi school MMS or threatening e-mails can be definitely checked provided there is good use of laws.The best way to prevent cyber crime is to educate children about the types of cyber crimes crimes, the cost of cyber crime to the victims, and the consequences for committing such crimes.
Its Not a complete paper.... for complete paper mail me.
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