The Role of Technology in Indian Schools: From Chalk to Cloud
A decade ago, the typical Indian classroom looked the same as it had for fifty years: a blackboard, chalk, a textbook, and a teacher lecturing to rows of students. Today, that picture is changing – unevenly, but unmistakably. India’s education technology landscape has been reshaped by three forces converging at once: a national policy mandate (NEP 2020) that explicitly calls for technology integration, a pandemic that forced 260 million students online overnight, and an EdTech market that peaked at $6 billion in 2022 before its correction. ...