Internrt For Education

challenges and opportunities

The objective of this project is to promote the good use of the Internet by providing necessary guidance for school students, teachers, and parents to use online learning resources. This would be an eye opener for various parties about the usefulness and potential of the Internet.

The Internet was not very much used for education in the past. During the epidemic, it was heavily used for delivering lessons through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and some other tools. However, only a few people realized the potential of the Internet for education purpose. Those who are in the education field appreciated the quality, comprehensiveness and entertainment aspects some online educational content. Thereafter, they started sharing the online resources. This project proposes to make a common platform that provides relevant learning materials including exercises for all interested parties. Furthermore, this could be used to compensate some shortcomings in the school curriculum and also to provide various learning material provided by leading organizations such as NASA.

Language is the biggest barrier. However, we plan to develop series of talks on how to use these resources and also the usefulness of these resources. Also this would be a good motivational factors local school teachers to produce learning materials in Sri Lanka.