Microsoft felicitates teachers for application of IT

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Microsoft India today announced the winners of the Innovative Teachers Leadership award (ITLA) for the year 2006. Instituted in 2004 under its India education program Project Shiksha, these awards seek to honor those teachers who are innovatively using IT in redefining classroom teaching and learning practices. Microsoft has till date trained over 110,000 teachers and reached out to over 5.5 million students under Project Shiksha. The ITLA Award this year received 14,000 registrations with the final 10 winners evaluated by an eminent panel of local educationists, faculty from Madras University and UNESCO.

 

The Awards ceremony was held in Delhi in the presence of an eminent gathering of teachers, academicians and senior government officials. Those present included the Chief Guest Mr Ashok Ganguly, Chairman - CBSE, Prof Utpal Malik - Joint Director, Central Institute of Education Technology, NCERT; Prof Sadagopan - IIIT, Bangalore, Dr Madhav Chavan - Director Pratham, Subhash Khuntia - Joint Secretary, Ministry of HRD, George Deikun - Director USAID and Rohit Kumar - Country Manager Public Sector Microsoft India.

 

The winners, selected from across the country, will attend the regional seminar being held next month in Cambodia. The conference will provide the attendees a unique opportunity to showcase their work, share best practices and gain valuable insights into innovative practices being deployed by their contemporaries across the region.

 

Outlining Microsoft's focus on education and the importance of these awards, Rohit Kumar, Country Head - Public Sector, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. said, "Microsoft's Project Shiksha is aimed at employing the benefits of ICT within the education process and is dedicated to improving the technology competencies of teachers and students worldwide. The Innovative Teachers Leadership Award serves as an excellent platform for providing added impetus to the academic community to innovatively use IT within the education process. These awards underline our focus on honoring and recognizing the best IT talent within the teacher community."  

 

Elaborating on the award, Tarun Malik - Lead Rural Computing, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. said, " The aim of Project Shiksha is not just IT training but to equip the teachers to use IT as a medium of learning. And we know from experience that computer-aided education makes learning more interesting. The ITLA award is to honor those teachers who have demonstrated a deep commitment towards transforming traditional classroom learning methods through innovative use of IT. "

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