By AMMU KANNAMPILLY, the Star
Two successful engineers do their bit by conducting online lessons for children in their remote village in India. The electricity keeps cutting out, the Internet connection is crackly and the speakers don’t always work, but Santosh Kumar knows that 20 pupils far away in eastern India are relying on him. Once a week, Kumar uses the Skype computer programme to teach Mathematics to children in Chamanpura, a poor village in the struggling state of Bihar, 600 miles (970km) from his two-storey house in the suburbs of New Delhi. The free Internet service allows the class to see, via a projector, Kumar’s tutorial which includes an animated tale about a greedy priest and a wily countryman to teach the students about numbers and the concept of infinity.
http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2011/5/1/education/8423717&sec=education
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