{"id":32,"date":"2018-10-05T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2018-10-10T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:03:38","slug":"icts-and-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/icts-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bt_bb_wrapper\">\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32\" class=\"elementor elementor-32 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5402d490 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5402d490\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3883c9\" data-id=\"c3883c9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61da016 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61da016\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2017-18\/\">Overview<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/directors-note\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">Directors&#8217; Note<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/team\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">Our Team<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"#area\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thematic Areas<\/span><\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/governance-of-the-digital-economy\/\">Governance of the Digital Economy<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/digital-rights-development-and-democracy\/\">Digital Rights, Development &amp; Democracy<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/prakriye-field-center\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">3. <em>Prakriye<\/em> Field Center<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">4.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/icts-and-education\/\">ICTs and Education<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">5.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/gender-justice-in-the-digital-society\/\">Gender Justice in the Digital Society<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/publications\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">Publications<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/financial-statements\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\">Financial Statements<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6365808a\" data-id=\"6365808a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-414d18c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"414d18c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 32px; color: #630363;\">ICTs and Education<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-312e3c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"312e3c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><em>The focus of our work in education continues to be on demonstrating and maturing models of technology integration that strengthen teacher agency and school autonomy, in partnership with public education systems. In 2017-18, we continued to work towards building teacher networks, collaborative resource repositories, and facilitating curriculum design and knowledge building.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e486eae elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-testimonial\" data-id=\"e486eae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"testimonial.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-content\"><i class=\"fa fa-quote-left fa-lg\"><\/i> Its the STF program which actually expanded my thinking from local to global, I was no longer a \u2018normal\u2019 teacher. I was introduced to Edubuntu and the free tools for the first time in the STF workshops. KOER fine tuned my resource creation skills and I have explored (and still exploring ICT in education) due to the inspiration from KOER. STF and KOER have not only helped me to work beyond my capacities, it has benefited my students as well, and so many other fellow teachers. The STF and KOER programmes have revolutionised ICT in education. Thanks for inspiring us.<i class=\"fa fa-quote-right fa-lg\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-name\">Muralidhar Shingri<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-job\">Science Teacher, Government High School Karkihalli, Koppal. Winner of the National ICT Award 2017.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-086293f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"086293f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 20px;\">Teacher professional development<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Telangana Subject Teacher Forum (STF) program<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During 2017-18, with support from Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR, the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/itforchange.net\/node\/1176\">Subject Teacher Forum<\/a><\/span> (STF) program in Telangana continued with professional development of Mathematics and Science teachers, to train them to become Master Resource Persons (MRPs). In October 2017, IT for Change conducted two workshops at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Hyderabad, for 30 Mathematics and 30 Science State Resource Persons. In November 2017, with the help of IT for Change, the State Resource Persons also conducted regional workshops in 12 District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and Colleges for Teacher Education (CTEs) across Telangana state, to build a cadre of 150 Mathematics and Science District Resource Persons. These resource persons in turn, trained around 600 Mathematics and Science teachers in technology integration. We continue to provide academic and technological support to these teachers through the online portal, e-mail and mobile forums. Teachers also share resources and engage with peers on these forums.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>School leadership program for head teachers<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2017-18, IT for Change, in collaboration with the RV Educational Consortium, designed and conducted a series of seven workshops for the head teachers from Bengaluru Municipal Corporation Primary Schools, on <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/karnatakaeducation.org.in\/KOER\/en\/index.php\/School_leadership_program_for_BBMP_HMs_2017\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2018School leadership and development.\u2019 \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The workshops covered different aspects of school leadership and development, including evolving a school vision, providing support for teacher professional development and strengthening school infrastructure. The participating head teachers also identified one school development project each, based on their local needs and priorities, to practically demonstrate the learnings from this school leadership program. School development projects included the following goals:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Improving student reading through school library program<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Improving the implementation of midday meals<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swacha school (Clean school environment)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bringing out a school newsletter<\/span><\/li><\/ul><figure id=\"attachment_285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-285 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBMP_WORKSHOP-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBMP_WORKSHOP-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBMP_WORKSHOP-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBMP_WORKSHOP-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBMP_WORKSHOP.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBMP workshop with head teachers<\/figcaption><\/figure><div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Capacity development of college faculty on ICT integration in teaching-learning<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IT for Change conducted training sessions on <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/node\/1543\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CT integration in teacher education for college teachers<\/span><\/a>, as part of a faculty development program organized by the Teaching Learning Centre of Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development\u2019s Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b19e7e elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-testimonial\" data-id=\"2b19e7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"testimonial.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-content\"><i class=\"fa fa-quote-left fa-lg\"><\/i> The participants, including us, really learnt a lot. I particularly liked the Freeplane and Kazam technologies that were demonstrated.<i class=\"fa fa-quote-right fa-lg\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-name\">Prof. Bhavya Ahuja<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-job\">Ramanujan College<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7bf4d25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7bf4d25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #630363;\">Curriculum<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">OER development in Indian languages<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen by many educationists as an important way to provide high quality and inexpensive curricular resources to students and teachers. Unfortunately, most OER available today is in English. There is a need to develop OER in Indian languages. IT for Change&#8217;s approach to this has been to integrate the development of OER in Indian languages in its teacher development programs. IT for Change had the rare privilege of being invited by the Education Department of Telangana to help them develop an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/index.php\/itfc-develops-student-ict-text-book-and-teacher-hand-book-based-on-national-ict-curriculum\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ICT student text book and teacher hand book<\/span><\/a> for their higher primary and high schools. In 2017-18, we supported the translation of the text book and teacher hand book into Telugu by the core group of teachers, who were part of the development of these books in English. Telugu is the medium of instruction in most of the government schools in the state, and the translation makes the content accessible to many more students and teachers. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also developed a software tool \u2018Anagram\u2019, which is derived from the K Anagram application. While K Anagram supports word jumbles in English, it does not support Indian languages which have the complexities of \u2018<i>Gunita<\/i>\u2019 (the addition of vowel sounds to consonants, such as \u2018Ka\u2019, \u2018Ki\u2019 etc.) and \u2018<i>Jodakshar<\/i>\u2019 (the combination of two letters, such as \u2018<i>Amma<\/i>\u2019). Anagram supports word jumbles in Devanagari, Kannada and Telugu scripts and can be used for supporting learning in local languages.<\/span><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-304 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iAnagram-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iAnagram-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iAnagram-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iAnagram-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iAnagram.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anagram app developed by IT for Change team<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-305 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COVER-OF-TELUGU-TEXT-BOOK-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COVER-OF-TELUGU-TEXT-BOOK-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COVER-OF-TELUGU-TEXT-BOOK-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COVER-OF-TELUGU-TEXT-BOOK-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COVER-OF-TELUGU-TEXT-BOOK.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICT text book in Telugu<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the year, IT for Change worked with teachers to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/developing-open-educational-resources-oer-hindi-language\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">OER in Kannada and in Hindi<\/span><\/a> as well. As part of working with the school leadership project with the Bruhat Bengaluru Municipal Corporation schools, resources were developed in Kannada and have been published on the Karnataka Open Educational Resources portal.<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Other engagements<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In November 2017, as a member of the Tamil Nadu ICT Syllabus review committee, IT for Change undertook a review of the ICT syllabus drafted by the syllabus committee of the department.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #630363;\">Blended learning programs (courses)<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Working with student teachers of Vijaya Teachers College<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IT for Change collaborated with Vijaya Teachers College to design a course on &#8216;Technology integrated learning&#8217; for the student teachers of the Bachelors in Education (B.Ed.) program. The course is fully integrated into the two year B.Ed. program. The course design is aligned to the National ICT Curriculum developed by NCERT. In 2017-18, as part of the first two semesters, the course focused on building the capacities of the student teachers to integrate ICTs for their professional development. The course was offered in a blended mode, using the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) to students, so that they could complement learning in the classroom sessions, with self and peer learning on the LMS. Subsequently, some faculty also used the LMS to support their own courses in the B.Ed. Program.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-989d1cb elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-testimonial\" data-id=\"989d1cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"testimonial.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-content\"><i class=\"fa fa-quote-left fa-lg\"><\/i> Teacher education and school education have undergone a drastic transformation globally. The TPACK (Technology Pedagogy Content Knowledge) framework is the buzz word in this scenario. IT for Change is successfully empowering in-service teachers and teacher educators in adopting the TPACK framework. IT for Change has pioneered in extending TPACK to pre-service teacher education; their program for B.Ed. student-teachers of our college, on 'Technology integrated learning', is the first of its kind.<i class=\"fa fa-quote-right fa-lg\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-name\">Dr. G.Vijayakumari<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-job\">Principal - Vijaya Teachers College, Bengaluru<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-160e014 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"160e014\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Working with teacher educators <\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IT for Change, in collaboration with Vijaya Teachers College, designed a program for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/certificate-course-on-%E2%80%9Cintegrating-ict-teacher-education%E2%80%9D-for-faculty-of-bed-colleges\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">teacher educators (B.Ed. faculty)<\/span><\/a> in ICT and Education. The program, supported by IBM\u2019s CSR division, consisted of an initiating workshop, where faculty learnt different digital methods and tools for professional development. This was followed by interactions and learning on the LMS, ending with a workshop which focused on strengthening the learning of faculty. The second workshop also exposed them to the larger issues relating to ICT and society, through select readings. For IT for Change, the blended learning program with student teachers and teacher educators was its first attempt at offering courses as an alternative to workshop based teacher development.<\/span><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-317\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TCOL-HM-workshop-at-VTC-lab-2-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TCOL-HM-workshop-at-VTC-lab-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TCOL-HM-workshop-at-VTC-lab-2-1.jpg 763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workshop with teacher educators<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 20px;\">Education research and knowledge building<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Book chapter on Open Educational Resources for Development<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The global research network \u2018Research on OER for Development\u2019 (ROER4D) released a book on its research across Asia, South America and Africa in 2017. This book included a chapter, written by the IT for Change team, analyzing the action research done on the Subject Teacher Forum \u2013 Karnataka Open Educational Resources (STF-KOER) program in Karnataka.<\/span><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-315 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Photo-of-book-cover-Roer4D-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Photo-of-book-cover-Roer4D-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Photo-of-book-cover-Roer4D.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book on ROER4D<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Open Educational Resources toolkit for Professional Learning Communities<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The basic model of ICT integration that IT for Change has chosen in its work with the government school system is the building of &#8216;professional learning communities&#8217; (PLCs) of teachers, who network for peer learning through sharing and seeking. An important aim of the network is the development of Open Educational Resources (OER). This model is in line with the themes of the NCERT ICT Curriculum &#8211; &#8216;Connecting and learning&#8217; and &#8216;Creating and learning&#8217;.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IT for Change developed this model through its work in Karnataka and also introduced elements of the model in its work in Assam, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Based on these experiences this year, IT for Change developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/teacher-network.in\/OER\/index.php\/A_Professional_Learning_Community_Approach_for_Teacher_Development_and_OER_creation_-_A_toolkit\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">toolkit<\/span><\/a> on \u2018Development of a professional learning community approach for teacher development and OER creation\u201d. This <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/teacher-network.in\/OER\/index.php\/A_Professional_Learning_Community_Approach_for_Teacher_Development_and_OER_creation_-_A_toolkit\">toolkit<\/a> explains the Professional Learning Community (PLC) model of Teacher Professional Development, and is intended primarily for education administrators in different states of India, who can use it to explore this model for their own in\u00ad-service teacher education programs.<\/span><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Toolkit-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Toolkit-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Toolkit-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Toolkit-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Toolkit.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OER toolkit<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">ICT implementation in school education in India<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In collaboration with Tata Trusts, IT for Change developed a document providing a framework for implementing ICT integration in school education for India. The study aims to build a knowledge base on ICT program design and discusses ICT integration across five components &#8211; ICT infrastructure, school level implementation, teacher professional development curricular resource development and educational administration. Based on the recommended design, the report computes cost\/ investment benchmarks for a program for integrating ICT in school education in India. The report has been provided to the National Education Policy team as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/developing-a-framework-for-ict-integration-school-education-india\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">input on ICT integration.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Evaluation of the Prerana program<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IT for Change conducted an evaluation of the Prerana program, of the NGO <i>Sikshana<\/i>, for Tata Trusts. The evaluation provided some insights and learning on the integration of ICT in school education and the use of incentives for students. The aim of participating in the evaluation of ICT in education programs of other organizations is to help build a knowledge base that would be useful to all organizations working in this area.<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Paper presentations and publications <\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During 2017-18, we made a conscious attempt to document our experiences and learnings from our field projects, curriculum development and research work, and write and present papers in different conferences on ICT and Education, for a wider dissemination of our work. These included:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Consultation on the National Education Policy 2017 (NEP), organized by the NEP secretariat. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/submission-to-national-education-policy-2017\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">inputs<\/span><\/a> emphasized the role of the participatory model of ICT integration in teacher education to strengthen and reform teacher education across the country.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two papers at the National Conference on ICT in School Education organized by the Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Ajmer in November 2017, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2017-12\/A%20%E2%80%98Block%E2%80%99%20community%20of%20learning%20approach%20to%20teacher%20professional%20development-Role%20of%20ICT.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2018A \u2018Block\u2019 community of learning approach to teacher professional development-Role of ICT\u2019<\/span><\/a>, and, <a href=\"http:\/\/itforchange.net\/collaborative-oer-adoption-by-a-professional-learning-community-a-model-of-teacher-professional\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2018Role of teacher networks in the creation of Open Educational Resources\u2019<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presentation on \u2018Open street map\u2019 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/swatantra17\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Swatantra 2017<\/span><\/a> 6th International Conference and Business Meet on Free Software and Free Knowledge, held in December 2017.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presentation at the Tata Institute of Social Science conference in February 2018 on &#8216;Collaborative knowledge creation: Interrogating processes and patterns\u2019.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presentation on \u2018Technology in education\u2019, at the national seminar on \u2018Quality assurance in higher education\u2019, organized by the Centre for Educational and Social Studies in March 2018.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Article on \u2018Digital Storytelling, an ICT &#8211; based method of co-constructing and transacting curriculum\u2019 for the \u2018Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators\u2019 journal of the National Council of Education Research and Training, published in August 2017.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #630363;\">Plans for 2018-19<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the coming year, we will continue our work in Telangana to deepen and strengthen the Subject Teacher Forums and the TROER portal. We are also in discussions with the department of education in Rajasthan, to plan an ICT integrated teacher development program, on the lines of our work in Karnataka and Telangana. We will also deepen our school level demonstration project by extending it to government aided high schools in Bengaluru South district.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recognizing that offering certificate courses for teachers and teacher educatorscan complement the workshop model of the STF program, IT for Change also plans to continue its collaboration with Vijaya Teachers College to offer courses based on National ICT Curriculum of CIET, NCERT, for student teachers and teacher educators of the Bachelors in Education program offered by teachers\u2019 colleges in Bengaluru. In addition, IT for Change will collaborate with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riesielt.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Regional Institute of English, South India<\/span><\/a>, and support them in offering their courses as blended learning programs, to allow greater teaching-learning opportunities for faculty and teachers.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have been invited to participate in the \u2018Teacher Professional Development@Scale\u2019(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:TPD@Scale\">TPD@Scale<\/a><\/span>) global alliance for school quality improvement.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The aim of the alliance, set up in 2018,is to help developing countries achieve the \u2018Sustainable Development Goal 4\u2019 (SDG\u00ad4) on education. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Directors&#8217; Note Our Team Thematic Areas 1.\u00a0Governance of the Digital Economy 2.\u00a0Digital Rights, Development &amp; Democracy 3. 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