The following motto drives me to write: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye...I have always wondered what makes this world go round. This book is an endeavour to find the answers to many questions. This collection of essays is very short but they are very close to my heart. I have tried to give insights to the topics that I have covered here."

The present curricula for ICT in Education aims at realising the goals of the National Policy of ICT in Schools Education and the National Curriculum Framework. Given the dynamic nature of ICT, the curricula, emphasising the core educational purposes, is generic in design and focuses on a broad exposure to technologies, together aimed at enhancing creativity and imagination of the learners. For the teacher, it is an initiation into: Exploring educational possibilities of technology, Learning to make right choices of hardware, software and ICT interactions, and Growing to become a critical...