Slashdot Mirror
India Launches World's First Education Satellite
samfisher writes "New Scientist is reporting that India has launched EDUSAT, the world's first satellite exclusively dedicated to distance learning. EDUSAT will use the virtual classroom concept to offer education to children in remote villages, quality higher education to students in areas without access to good technical institutes, adult literacy programmes and training modules for teachers. The educational programmes can be viewed on any television set through a simple low-cost receiver costing about $65."
We get to laugh cause jobs are being outsourced from India as its economy improves to countries where people will work for even less. In 50 years we may reach a point where there is at least something resembling a middle class in nearly every country. On the other hand we will probably all be working for a single megacorp/world government that lojacks us at birth.
If it's for education, I'm sure Bush will find some reason to have it knocked out of orbit.
Which "King's College?" Are you sure there wasn't a burger on the sign out front?
Hint: there's a world full of other countries and other universities beyond the 50 states. And, in some of those universities, you can get a real education.
By the way, if your own education had given you any sort of basic research skills, or if you weren't so damn lazy, then you'd know that he's talking about King's College, London. You'd be able to guess that from googling "King's College, but in this case you could say that that's the place for sure simply by looking at the guy's Slashdot journals, which point to his detailed blog.
Perhaps the reason why you can't do these simple things is because the only place that you graduated from was McDonalds U?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Yes but they spent nearly a 100 million trying to educate their kids. It seems like they could have spent that money invading bangladesh or something don't you think. Clearly their priorities are all messed up.
evil is as evil does
"You had better brush up on your knowledge."
Bah, he is a republican. He does not need knowledge. He has "strong beliefs"
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Today class..... Jimmy, please do not block the web cam.... Thank you, also your mother will not be picking you up today after class....She will be staying late for "cross training" her new off shore co-workers!..How nice....
Julius Caesar - Act I, Scene i: "What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!"
Pardon me for correcting your misconception, but it's not a strong belief. It is a certainty. God told me so.
I can just see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Ashcroft sitting around a circle plotting...
"You know, we could do away with Public Schools all together, launch about 5 of these here Indian-type satellites in geo-synchronous orbit over this great nation of ours, and start beaming down "The New Education". We control the content, you know, Evolution is out, Creationism is in, that sort of thing. And that's just the beginning!!! Think of the revenues that could be generated by embedding advertising directly into the educational content...."
Some call me paranoid, but what do you call it when it actually happens, a "good idea"??
Authority questions you. Return the favor.