Bristol promotes interactive learning in India

Dr Sri Subramanian from the Department of Computer Science has been leading a project examining the use of interactive technology in school classrooms in India. The investigation, 'Expressive Interactions for Empowerment' was carried out in collaboration with the NIIT University (a not-for-profit institution sponsored by NIIT Limited) and Hole-in-the-Wall Education of India . It was conducted through the UK-India network on interactive technologies , with funding from EPSRC and the UK Science and Innovation Network in India . 'We installed a multi-touch table in two schools in Delhi to explore how the interactive table helps widen student participation and improves outreach,' said Dr Subramanian. 'The students were assigned the task of working together to create a spider diagram from a set of given elements ' 22 images and keywords ? on the topic of plants and photosynthesis. Spider diagrams are a common classroom method of creating a graphical network of elements. In this case, an image of a plant was placed in the middle of each table as the focal point of discussion.