Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Science & Technology
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
— Lucy Larcom

Being the Change in Bihar

Being the Change in Bihar
In an under-construction school building in India's Bihar village, children are learning algebra, chemistry, Newton's laws of motion. There's no teacher in the classroom, no blackboard. The teacher is hundreds of miles away, and he is teaching via Skype. In this very unsual school, teachers mark their attendance using a biometric fingerprinter, and students log their attendance in a computer. The school is even more unusual because Chamanpura has no electricity yet!

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