Kushal posted about Bijra High School. Given the current skew in education demographics, the interesting fact that might slip unnoticed is that “The school proudly announces that the number of Muslim girls reading in this school is more than the number of boys.“. This is a piece of information that was repeated here.

At some point in time in the distant past, I was associated (albeit more actively than now) with something that was acronym-ed CASTLE (Computer Aided Systems for Teacher Led Education). While the pedagogy was clear in the “teacher led” bit, the deployment was focussed on madrassas. The entire effort was LTSP based and is something which L2C2 is carrying out nowadays. The problem then and the problem now is that the initial capital outlay for the project needed some bit of bankrolling. Moreover, since the machines were desktop PCs – the ownership or the sense of belonging did not happen.

Is this a case where a bit of OLPC love can help ?