India, Aug. 14 -- Kids today are growing up with word processors as basic writing tools, social media as the major communicative and networking platform, and graphic content creation software to give wings to their creative fire. Every child becomes a digital pro far more quickly than the older generations can ever hope to be at a single digital application.

Yet, the 2017-18 NCERT report on education in India says that less than 50 per cent of teacher trainees are comfortable with using word processor, graphic software, blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, podcast and mobile learning applications; majority of the trainees have not done any online course and attended online seminar; 34 per cent of trainees never use PPT for teaching and the majority...