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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Possible application of tablets for Education

Understanding the needs of students and schools, what solutions are available, what advantages and disadvantages they have and what you should consider before deploying tablets in the classroom.Tablets are cable of offering enhanced E-books featuring images, video and audio. These elements are impossible to include in print or in a standard E-book.Though tablets are a recent phenomenon, many students in high school and college have been using smartphones for years, and are already well-acquainted with touchscreen technology. Because they’ve become so accustomed to using these devices, students are increasingly expecting to use them in the classroom setting. When classrooms don't implement what has now become "everyday" technology, we’re doing students a disservice.



Best kids' apps for primary school children

  • Animals for Kids Forest

 Animals for Kids is a funny educational game for all ages.student can observe the environment,sound foods ect.they can learn from this while they are playing.
  •  Alphabet Flashcards

  Alphabet Flashcards - an educational app to help your child learn the alphabet using flash cards.
  •  Math on the Farm

 Math on the Farm is a creative maths learning tool based on stories.
  •  Colouring Pages for Kids

 Colouring Pages for Kids is a great (and clean) way for your kids to express their creativity. And it won't require you to redecorate.
  •   LEGO® Juniors Create & Cruise

 A game of imagination and building skill, LEGO Juniors Create & Cruise is aimed at children from ages four to seven years. Build your own truck, then use it to bring your cargo to its right destination, and collect coins, Fun, educational and satisfying.
  •  Hairy Letters

Hairy Letters is helpful in learning to write letters.

Buddha for Kids
An interesting app that focuses on history over religion. App maker Quelle Histoire creates apps that help six- and seven-year-olds learn about the lives of famous people - this case the Buddha. Your children will likely enjoy this app - and they will learn something too. Through 10 illustrated images, the children will follow Buddha from his first steps under the great tree at Lumbini to his Enlightenment near to the sacred town of Uruvela. And the kids stay focused because of games on each.
  • Little Things Forever

Find things in shapes made up of thousands of objects with this beautiful and addictive free app for children.
  •  Stack the Countries

 A geography quiz (countries, flags, cities, landmarks) combined with a game to try to stack scale country outlines on top of each other without the pile falling over. Surprisingly good fun.
  •  Digital story telling

      There are so many stories which students can listen, create and  colour.
  •  learn music for kids 

 it is wonderful way to kids to learn as they explore and enjoy music.

  I think it is appropriate using tablets for primary education.

Studies on the use of tablets in an education environment, such as one conducted at secondary schools in Quebec and French-speaking Belgium, show they can yield a number of benefits for students in terms of improving:
  • Motivation
  • Publishing, sharing and searching for information
  • Collaboration
  • Developing IT skills
  • Creating a more individual approach to learning
  • Flexibility in terms of space and time
  • Creativity.

 Classrooms are their own little society and for years, teachers have aimed to broaden horizons through pen pal programs and field trips.

  How Tablets are changing the students behavior of learning  itself.


  • Some of the coolest apps on the market are geared towards science buffs. Your class will come alive when you assign them the job of using Star Walk for iPad. everything from the periodic table of elements to brain science, anatomy, plants, glossaries- apps can be the springboard for scientific curiosity.


  • Public speaking is an important skill for students to learn.
  • In past we used power point presention  Now, tablets have fantastic apps that can be used to do real-time drawing, writing, and animation during a presentation. Students can circle, highlight, or write in points as they present their latest research or findings.

  •  Tablets provide an instantaneous connection between parents, students, and teachers. It may be easy to lose a handwritten note or assignment, but as the tablet goes back and forth between home and school.

     As I have mention there are many possible applications of tablets.we can use those in primary     education.tablets are useful and helpful in education sector. 

The best specification in performance and price sweet spot for assembling a computer for a school lab.

Technology has struggled to find its way into the classroom in all sorts of ways, from projectors and televisions to computer labs and student laptops. Along with improving the way students are taught, it is also vitally important that students learn to use computers to improve their own work and prepare for careers in a world where computers have become as common as the pencil and paper.Computer education improves students’ research skills by encouraging them to look for information on the Internet.classroom with computers have become an important of the curriculum and to be use daily.so the computer lab is very important to a school.


The most important computer components......


  1.  Mother board

  2. Hard disk

  3. processor

  4. RAM 

  5. Monitor

  6. keyboard

  7. mouse

  8. power supply 

 

 I think that bellow  specifications and prices will be more relevant to assemble a computer for a school lab according to our school budget.

 

                              Rs.9,000
Clock Speed : 3.30 GHz Cache Memory : 3 MB
CPU Cores : 2
Sockets Supported : LGA1151



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Gigabyte H110M – S2PV (409471)

                                 Rs.8,900

  • Supports 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor
  • Dual Channel DDR3, 2 DIMMs
  • 8-channel HD Audio with High Quality Audio Capacitors
  • Audio Noise Guard with LED Trace Path Lighting
  • DVI-D, D-sub ports for multiple display
  • Realtek® GbE LAN with cFosSpeed Internet Accelerator Software
  • All new GIGABYTE™ APP Center, simple and easy use
  • GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™ Technology
  • Support Intel® Small Business Basics 

 

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                                        Rs.6,800

Specification:
Interface : SATA 6.0Gb/s
Capacity : 1TB
RPM : 7200 RPM
Cache : 32MB
Average Latency : 4.16ms
Form Factor : 3.5″
7,200 RPM Rotational Speed
Low Power
Advanced Format 512e
Eco-friendly halogen-free design
Warranty
12 Months


RAM2 GB Ram DDR III

Specification Capacity: 2GB• System Type: DDR3• Speed: DDR3-1333 (PC2 6400)• Test Voltage: 1.5 VoltsWarranty36 Months price        Rs. 2,000




keyboard and mouse

 Logitech KeyBoard and Mouse   Price :      Rs. 1,000

 

  computter casing




 With Actual 450W (230w) Power Supply  Rs 2,000


Power supply


IN WIN power supply 300Wprice    Rs. 3500


MONITOR

 

HP 15 Inch LCD Monitor    Rs. 4,000

 
 

Total cost for my computer assemble is Only 37,200 . In my opinion this is the best specification in performance and price sweet spot for assembling a computer for a school lab.




Friday, June 3, 2016

Linux Based Operating System & School Lab

What is Linux?

Linux is, in simplest terms, an operating system. It is the software on a computer that enables applications and the computer operator to access the devices on the computer to perform desired functions. The operating system (OS) relays instructions from an application to, for instance, the computer's processor. 
Explained in these terms, Linux is very similar to other operating systems, such as Windows and OS X.

The Birth of Linux

On August 25, 1991, a Finn computer science student named Linus Torvalds made the following announcement to the Usenet group comp.os.minux:

The “Minix” Torvalds referred to is a variant of the UNIX operating system, used as a guideline for his the free operating system he wanted to run on the x86-based consumer PCs of the day. “gnu” refers to the set of GNU (GNU Is Not Unix) tools first put together by Richard Stallman in 1983. UNIX, the operating system that started it all, had its origins in the old Bell Labs back in the early 60s.




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