CBSE organises 3-day conference on next generation education

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) organised its 19th national conference in the city. The Conference was inaugurated by D D Bhawalkar, former director CAT Indore, Vineet Joshi, chairman, CBSE, Sadhana Parashar, director, training and academics along with Srinivas Rao, president Sahodaya Indore, Prakash Choudhary, secretary Sahodaya Indore. Vineet Joshi, while addressing the gathering, said, ‘A teacher plays multiple roles right from imparting information, motivation to reaching out to parents and community at large.’ He also said skills that a child learns at the school remain with the child even when he grows up and help him. Bhawalkar said, ‘Creativity has to be honed at school level so that we can produce laureates like C V Raman and Swami Vivekanand. Education should not be limited to exams.’ The three-day conference had a special session on ‘new pedagogies and enabling technologies for teaching and learning’ along with a special panel discussion on ‘Education 3.0’.