A tour of future-smart computing

ORIENTAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHOPAL

Aakash Tablet

This presentation demonstrates the

vision and mission of Aakash Tablet

The capabilities of Aakash Tablet.Introduction to Aakash

Overview of Android

Aakash Application’s

Future Scope

Vision and Mission

Every Indian learner desires a

chance to receive the highest quality

education. Scarcity of trained

teachers hinders this aspiration.

Difficulty in accessing the best

educational contents, in an

affordable manner, further

accentuates the problem.

The Power of Thinking

Effective use of Information andCommunication Technologies helpsin significantly addressing these twinissues. Aakash Tablet, launched byGovernment of India, is emerging asa key ICT tool for this purpose. Whenused in conjunction with the highspeed network of NKN, Aakash has agreat potential to become aubiquitous and effective ICT tool forstudents and teachers.

IIT Think

The Power of Thinking

Aakash project at IIT Bombay is dedicated to the development of useful applications and contents for use with Aakash. It attempts to empower teachers by using a unique blend of technology, e-contents, and an innovative pedagogy.

While the main focus of this project is on engineering education, it is proposed to use the creative talent of these professional students and teachers, to develop applications and contents for all levels of education, including school education in Indian languages.

Tablet Computers

•Tablets are primarily ‘Access’

Devices

• connect to internet

•Apple ipad in 2010

•Tablets likely to proliferate and distributed to the students

India’s LCAD project

LCAD: Low Cost Access device (tablet computer)

Tablets for quality education

Affordability important

Main plan

Offer tablets at subsidy

First phase

Demonstrate usage

History of Aakash

Launched in October 2011

IIT Bombay was given the phase I project in March 2011

Order placed in May 2012

Specs upgraded further

Aakash-2 Launch on 11th Nov. 2012

Aakash plans at IIT Bombay

250 colleges are R&D partners

OCT is one of them

Each college to use Aakash for

Class room teaching

Final year projects

To create innovative educational applications and contents

Introduction

•A Linux based Operating System designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices

•Initially developed by Android Inc

•and later purchased by Google in 2005

•The first Android powered device was sold in Oct 2008

•Android is Open Source and Google releases code under Apache2 license

•Google Play Store

HoneycombAndroid 3.0-3.2

Ice cream SandwichAndroid 4.0+

Jelly Bean 4.1+

Future Scope

Aakash project is one suchattempt

You all will facilitate creation of anew teaching-learning pardigm