{"id":283115,"date":"2026-06-27T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:05:08","slug":"talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about equity, ethical technology, and sustainable development in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/article71130309.ece\">Talking about equity, ethical technology, and sustainable development in the classroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/article71130309.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/article71130309.ece<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 22:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thehindu.com\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Students should understand the interconnections between economic, social, technological, and environmental factors.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: Getty Images\/iStockphoto\n                                      <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-caps\">F<\/span>or decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the benchmark to measure a nation\u2019s progress. Rising GDP rates are correlated with prosperity, development, and economic growth. However, today, benchmarks like quality of life, social development, overall well-being, environmental stability, ethical technology, and social equity are just as important for a country\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Reports such as Oxfam\u2019s Takers Not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth of Colonial Inheritance and the UNDP\u2019s Human Development Index suggest that countries with strong healthcare, education, and social welfare systems rank higher in human development despite their GDP numbers.\u00a0India, despite being one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, currently ranks 130 out of 193 in the HDI ranking. Therefore, it is time that the \u2018Beyond the GDP\u2019 conversation moves into Indian classrooms.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"sub_head\">Modern challenges<\/h4>\n<p>Today\u2019s graduates face critical challenges such as climate change, the ethical use of AI, social inequality, resource constraints, and public welfare. Most of these cannot be solved by economic growth alone. These issues require empathy, innovation, social responsibility, and interdisciplinary collaborations. In a country like India, with its diverse demography and socio-economic contrast, the conversations that go beyond the GDP cannot be just one elective course in the first year; they have to\u00a0be an important part of every course across every institution. COVID-19 taught us all about adaptability and resilience and highlighted the importance of emotional and mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>These life lessons make it imperative that classrooms move beyond traditional learning and help students develop the skills they&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/article71130309.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about equity, ethical technology, and sustainable development in the classroom https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/talking-about-equity-ethical-technology-and-sustainable-development-in-the-classroom\/article71130309.ece Publish Date: 2026-06-27&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/wq94wp\/article71137879.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/Tavishi.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-283115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283117,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115\/revisions\/283117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}