Think without Ink

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Lets sense and think instead of writing  & save paper and increase neuro-efficiency.

- A contribution to S. Ramanujan and Chukka Ramaiah who made us think in different centuries instead of pen and ink

Note: This study is a personal experience of me and engineering assignments given to the present students in engineering colleges.
Aim:
To show that paper usage has to be reduced to make the students think at the same time protecting the environment by reducing paper intake. (Taking an example of an engineering student)
Engineering is one of the most perceived graduate course in India, every year about 1.5 million student graduate from 4000 institutes which is more engineers than USA and China combined. The engineering curriculum in India is more focused on theoretical aspect than practical knowledge. Due to which studying the subject becomes boring after a point and gets stagnant for the students A New Delhi-based employment solutions company conducted an employability-focused study based on 1,50,000 engineering students who graduated in 2013. The findings revealed only 3 % of the total graduates have suitable skills to be employed in software or product market, and only 7 % can handle core engineering tasks.1

A personal study did by our team when an assignment is given by faculty in a class of 60 students only 2 of 60 students write their assignments honestly and everyone else copies exactly from internet or friends without making any changes.

In engineering, one semester consists of 6 months assuming that a student is given 3 written assignments per month per subject. A normal student tries to write more and more papers as the saying goes, “if the assignment is for 10 marks than each page would carry 1 mark least”, thus the student write 5 sheets i.e. 10 pages.

3 asst. X 5 sheets X 5 months X 6 subjects =
450 sheets per student per semester
1.5 1.5 million students graduating every year are producing  1.5 million X 450 sheets = 675 million  sheets = 1,350 million paper s

Or i.e. 645 tons or 585 metric ton,  per semester, out of them less than 1 %  have done the justice to sacrifice of trees.
It takes 17 trees (in average), 25 m3 of water, 10,061 kWh of electricity, 680 gallons (2.57 m3) of oil to make 1 metric tons of paper2,3   that means
585 metric ton  X 17 trees = 9,945 trees per semester by 1.5 million engineering graduates.
I.e. is multiplied by 9,945 trees X  8 semesters = 69,895 trees, 1,46,25,000 Lit. of water, 882852700  MWH of energy & 3,97,800 gallons of oil per batch.
Solutions :
1. Google classroom:
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aim to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.
Specifications:
  • Link with drive,docs,sheets & slides,
  • Communication through Gmail,
  • Scheduling through google calendar,
  • Mobile friendly,
  • Paperless and free of cost.
2. Use of recycled papers.
3. If you can do it in brain why do it by paper and pen learn techniques like Vedic Maths.
4. Thought for students:-
If you copy from your friends or the internet its not a problem if you copy as it is then it’s a blunder.
5. Thought for teachers:-
when giving an assignment
-Communicate to students with its aim, vision & conclusion that are expected from assignments.
-Always advocate “make 1 page into a half page, a half page into two lines & two lines in one word,  in an assignment.
-Encourage to make tables, diagrams, and flowcharts etc.


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Author: Hanuman Wange
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Presenting a copy to Guru sri Chukka Ramaiah Sir.



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