Aakash tablet: the digital slate, Can this revolutionize India’s education system?

Aakash tablet is the much anticipated Android tablet PC that has been designed by a joint collaboration of Indian Institute of technology and Data Wind, a London based organization. The development part has been taken care of by Quad, an India based company, at their Hyderabad production center. This cheapest Indian tablet PC is being manufactured on a trial run with 100,000 units. Officially this android tablet was announced India, on October 5^th 2011 in New Delhi and it was called Aakash or Ubislate.

Specifications of this model you can say as if it rules the world.This android tablet (Aakash) is equipped with ARM 11 microprocessor and 256 MB RAM, has 2 GB Internal Flash Memory and up to 32 GB expandable external memory. The operating system is Android 2.2. The tablet comes with a sleek 7 inches touch screen and 1 USB port. The device comes loaded with several features and many more will be available soon as the dedicated Apps store for the same is launched. Plenty of education contents will be available on Aakash which has been developed by the Sakshat portal.

And when the topic comes about Revolutionize Indian Education System it is in a in very traditional and books are the major source of getting knowledge. Computer is considered as one of the most efficient and useful device when it comes to facilitating education to students from all social and economical strata of Indian subcontinent so is Internet. With the use of internet and computer knowledge can be digitalize and student can have access to unlimited notes and study material at very less cost. This can also help in learning new things, improving creativity and knowing about career options. This will also help in reducing gap between poor and rich children and rural and urban students. Also if our new generation will be internet savvy then they can better know about their rights, be updated about what’s happening around, and help in removing issues like corruption, since distribution of things can only be made by Govt. online if people would be computer savvy.

Although it is cheap in price but has some lacking in quality as well, like resistive touch screen, low battery and less powerful processor which might not be very good experience while accessing internet, which is the main factor in digitizing education system.Govt. is planning to resolve these issues with new version of Aakash which is 3times faster than old version and has 50% more battery life, and this will be available to students at old cost. Hopefully it be the one we are waiting for so long called “common man’s PC” and can change the way our education system works in positive way.