Jammu, Sept. 4 -- The classroom changed, the technology changed, but the purpose of teaching remained the same.
By Prof. (Dr.) Parshant Bakshi
Head, Division of Fruit Science, SKUAST-Jammu
I still remember the classrooms where I began my journey as a teacher with a blackboard, a piece of chalk and a group of curious students sitting before me. There was no smart board, no YouTube, no digital classroom and no Artificial Intelligence. The teacher, the textbook and the blackboard were the principal tools of learning. More than two decades later, the classroom looks completely different.
Today, a lesson can travel from a university campus to a student's home through a mobile phone. A diagram that once took several minutes to draw on a black...