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--- Begin Message ---Dear Tucker,I think you are right about radio being less prone to use for self indulgence than internet. Also, I agree that as a short term measure in Afghanistan etc who face teacher shortage it is a fast and ready method.However, as a long term solution I remember reading Murnane's article in September that teaching and salesmanship are such human-intensive jobs which cannot be replaced by machines altogether. But China has somehow got a good mix of the two.Thanks for the mail.All the best again.Umesh
Tucker McCravy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Umesh,
I think that teacher's salaries in fact are more expensive than some
of the low-tech options currently being implemented in these
countries. And, if we recall from microeconomics and other
endeavors, radio educations and textbooks are two of the only
inputs (according to Hanushek) which have demonstrable effect on
student achievement.
Using humans to mobilize people is, in fact, a more costly
investment. Investments to increase human capital over physical
capital always are. In the particular case of Afghanistan, if I recall
correctly from the CIES lecture in Washington, they have an
immediate shortage of some 30,000 teachers.
Obviously, the short term solution to training teachers (3 or 4 years
down the line and millions of dollars required) is to broadcast by
radio.
The questionof what students! might ALSO be using the radio for is
another one altogether - but I think we might both agree that the
ratio of options available for edification to those for self-indulgence
are much higher for radio than for the internet.
T
On 14 May 2005 at 21:28, Umesh Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I happened to see the opening session an the one on Asian
experience
> in China, Afghanistan and India. I was pretty impressed with the
way
> the lectures were conducted at the central Agricultural Univ and
> relayed through Satellite dish to rural centers and how practical
> classes were also conducted from tiem and time. The program
had about
> 30,000 centers and 1.8 million graduates.
>
>
> However, the one in India and Afghanistan were not so
enthusing. The
> NGO in India was primarily using the hi-tech rural radio/cable tv
> center to promote commuity participation and publ! ic awareness.
I
> think it is a very costly way of building a civil society in rural
> areas. Mahatma Gandhi was able to rouse up the masses by
living and
> working with them, and no technology needed for that. Though
rural,
> illiterate people cannot read newspapers or pamphlets so
radio/TV is
> good, but I feel using humans to moblize people is a cheaper
option,
> though I am not sure, if you calculate the cost of their salaries.
>
> Afghans used some Hi-tech CD-radio to trasmit school lectures to
rural
> villages- 7,000 such radios were sent to rural areas. Wouldn't it
be
> more cost effective to train teachers to teach in such places . If
> those who are coming forward to be responsible for keeping
these hi-fi
> radios are literate, they could be trained to teach others.
>
> There is no evaluation of how effective these programs have
been. I
> ass! ume atleast some of them might be using the radio system to
listen
> to film music than for teaching the village kids.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Umesh
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