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Information Literacy: The Next ‘R` In The Networked World

The evolved and emerging networks such as the Internet, mobile are ushering a new world order. They are setting up a new playing ground for human endeavors such as business and education. These networks are fundamentally different from the traditional building blocks and infrastructure and are increasingly becoming game-changers. Because of these developments success and even survival in this new networked world order demands new category of skills. These skills are broadly called Information literacy. Demand for new skill is not strange to human race. Like many other “survived” species humans have acquired a new set of  skills at every crucial stage and turn of natural  evolution. However, need for a new set of skills for a world order created by human themselves is of recent origin. The invention of printing press and consequent ability of humans to produce books in millions created new institutions such as modern universities and governments. The successful participation in thes

Organized Learning in Human History: Oral Tradition to Personal Learning Environment ( PLE)

Education has been a mainstay of many of human societies throughout civlizations. Education is a process of transmiiting of content- knowledge, experience and values from one generation to another. The mode and means of education have been always evolving and are reflection of state of art of technology avaialable to that society at that time. Oral tradition was the chief mode of education for most part of human history. However arrival of new technologies periodically have helped people to find news ways of delivering education. The invention of  printing press in 14th century and consequent ability to produce books in large numbers gave impetus to educational process and helped to build modern universities. Liberal education promoted and practiced by universities tried to reach masses and offer education in large scale. Later development such a radio, TV and other made education more accessible. However, education was organized around an institution and all learning happened in the &

Technical Teaching For Results

I teach in an engineering college and I am a technical teacher. Technical teaching is all about making a learner functional and a contributor in the domain of her choice. Technical teaching has a purpose and must get results. Technical teaching for results must be a legitimate concern and a duty of technical teacher Technical teaching is practical and has a thesis Technical performance. Technical performance is the ability of a t eacher to put technology into effective use in teaching and in the daily activities of the learner. It is the specific function and the contribution of teacher. and the reason for his existence and employment.

Prateek Shetty(2010): How my final year project landed me in Job

Hi all,            It gives me immense pleasure to share my experience with all you juniors.  Here is a small article on how my final year project helped me get a job! Ravindra Sir had asked me to write this long back, but due to my busy schedule I couldn’t. I believe it’s better late than never, so this is how it goes…            Once you enter your final year the search for the project group starts. And after the group is formed, starts the hunt for the project topic. Can say it as the most vital part of the project.  Some think of the marks they are going to score if they take up a particular project and some think of the things they can learn while doing the project. This reminds me of what my friend Rohan Nayak used to say, “It doesn’t matter how much you score in your project, what matters is how much you learn out of it”. And remember, if all you want is to get some marks there are easy ways out. But we chose the hard way and under the guid

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

 I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune I am very keen on sharing my final year project experience with my you all because I do understand the difficulty in choosing the right topics and even I was once in a dilemma like you guys not aware what kind of topics to be chosen for. The final year projects are not just gonna add to your academic brilliance but most of the times decide your career. So the topics for the project must be chosen very very carefully. I am tech savvy and I had a great appetite for learning and staying updated about the latest and upcoming technologies.Before I decide any thing regarding my final year, I had two objectives that has to be fulfilled by project.Firstly it should be helpful to a group of people or a community like Education, Healthcare etc.Secondly it should possess a strong business objective, so that I should be in a position to promote it has product. Since the word “cloud computing” was in the buzz, I felt this coul

How my project helped me to get my first job” Vijay Sali, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

Hello, Its my immense pleasure to share my experience about “ How my project helped me to get my first job”.... Firstly my heartily thanks to Prof. Ravindra Dastikopa , for giving me an opportunity to share my views & experience in getting my first job... During 7th semester myself with my team were thinking to do something which is new , innovative, and helpful to society , this was our main objectives.... As we approached Professor he suggested his idea's which will be helpful for the education system i.e “CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”. Here started our journey to think in the direction of " CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM ”.... With this in mind we started searching more information with respect to this and during this session lots of brainstorming sessions happened on requirement collection, constraints, and choosing domains (Like java, python and .net)..... Finally we where al set & started our work in this ..... We understood the entire system environment and

How my final year Project landed me into my First job: Prathvi Raj Palekar(2010)

My Project work: My project  Markmelive was a Web Based Application Using API.  Basically its a Mashup of Facebook And Google Maps  If we go to the logic or working there is no much complication in the project But the domain study which we did to make it work was a lot . Approaching companies for Job: So coming to the part of getting a job. I and Dastikop sir we together sent mails to some of the start up companies using our contacts. On the same day iIgot the interview cal and appointment call too. What company was looking for? Basically what company look for is like how ready you are . Definately the IDE we used in our project (Eclipse) had a plus point because all most all the development in industries are on IDE . then the technology we used FLEX is a emerging trend in the world . the industry will we definately happy to have some who have the knowledge in the resent trend Then once you have entered you will be working in all most all the domain u mi

Stop Searching and Start using

Today we have enough information and connections. We are often tempted to procure more information by means of searching and browsing. We are also tempted to make more connections. But if you take a serious look at this phenomenon, we realize that somewhere we should stop searching for more information and bring an end to making more connections. We must ask  deeper questions. What can I do with the information that I already have? What more uses can I find for this information? Who in my network might need this info? what is the simplest way to reach them with this?