ICT MT TOT at DET

From 5th Sept to 9th September, 2011 total 24 TEACHERS struggled it out to deal with human and technical challenges to get trained to be Master Trainers in Information and Communication Technologies in Higher Education- Training of Trainers. The training actually can be relabeled as Training in self training as there is very little that can be actually LEARNT. Its more of unlearning and exploring that a trainee as well as trainers had to do during those five days that at this point on the fifth day of the training i feel personally that its a Herculean task to make this a part of day-to-day reality. Time would tell us where and how we as an institution go, as an individual i got reconfirmation that i had been on the right road. It was in 1999 that i did a paper on "Boundaries Blurred: Changing role of teacher and the taught" for a Mumbai university national seminar with only two years of teaching post-graduate students at SNDT. The journey that i started was into exploration in the years that went by. In the year 2008 we undertook an action project on "Changing role of undergraduate teachers in twenty first century at the Department in collaboration with Human Development Department. The findings were interesting. This TOT came in as an extension to that experience and may formulate into a larger research exploration. Thanks DET, Kamatmam and Jayashree in particular to push me to plunge. It was great to swim knowingly.