Gouri Chindarkar
Gouri Chindarkar was among the first group of children in India to participate in a Self-Organised Learning Environment ("Soles"),[1][2] which have now become known as "School in the Cloud".[3] She went to university despite not having a normal classroom based education.
Life[edit]
She was born in about 1996.[4] Her home was in Shirgaon in the state of Maharashtra.
Her education was delivered in English but her native language was Marathi. She was placed in contact via the internet not with teachers but with mentors who inspired her curiosity. Her particular mentor was an American woman named Ann Thomas. Chindarkar would leave her house early so she could meet her at 6:30 in the morning. She had heard of computers before this form of education but she had never used one. When she contacted her mentor she might find that she was on a beach holiday.[2]
Following her involvement in the programme, Gouri Chindarkar has since gone on to take Computing Engineering at Kankavali as part of Mumbai University and she was included as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2016.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sunny Leone, Neha Singh on BBC's 100 most influential women list - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "100 Women 2016: The girl who learned in the cloud". BBC News. 2016-11-22. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ↑ "About | School in the Cloud". www.theschoolinthecloud.org. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2016 List: Sunny Leone and 4 Indian women in inspirational and influential list". India News Bulletin. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
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