{"id":985,"date":"2020-09-21T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/?page_id=985"},"modified":"2021-09-11T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:17:08","slug":"2019-20-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2019-20-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overview<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Directors’ Note<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Our Team<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Thematic Areas<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 1. <\/span>Data and the Digital Economy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 2.\u00a0<\/span>Digital Rights and Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 3. Prakriye<\/em> Field Centre<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 4.\u00a0ICTs and Education<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 5.\u00a0Gender Justice in the Digital Society<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Publications<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Financial\u00a0Statements <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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The promise of digital technologies lies, in large part, in their ability to empower the peripheries. In the context of education, this means empowering not only marginalized groups but also teachers. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance content and pedagogical knowledge, create and share open educational resources, and support constructive classroom engagement goes a long way in the professional development of teachers. The use of free and open digital technologies also creates a free and open learning environment, where teachers see themselves as active participants in a digital society, and not merely as users or consumers of content.<\/em><\/p>

IT for Change\u2019s (ITfC) work on education continues to focus on demonstrating and maturing models of technology integration that strengthen the agency of teachers and the autonomy of schools in the public education system. In 2019-20, we continued to make classroom processes more democratic and participatory, build teacher networks, and develop collaborative resource repositories. We also made progress toward informing education policy and discourse.<\/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

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Teacher professional development
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As part of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ITfC<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>continued <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>association with <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Regional Institute of English, South Ind<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ia (RIESI)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>we<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> conducted workshops <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>that equipped <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>participants <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Post Graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>(<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>PGDELT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>program<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> with the capacity <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>to develop digital <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>material<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> for <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>teaching <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>learning. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>In s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>imilar <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>workshops <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>conducted <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>for three batches of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>RIESI\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Certificate <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>P<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>rogram in English Language Teaching <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>(<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>CELT),<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> participants learn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ed<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> how to create and develop <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>digital material<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>using free and open <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>source <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>software (FOSS) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>audio editors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Rishi Martin, Kotak Bank at the felicitation at VTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

We continued the <\/span><\/span><\/span>ICT <\/span><\/span><\/span>I<\/span><\/span><\/span>ntegrated <\/span><\/span><\/span>L<\/span><\/span><\/span>earning <\/span><\/span><\/span>course, which focuses on how digital technologies can be applied in education, for the 2018-20 batch of student-teachers at Vijaya Teachers College (VTC). <\/span><\/span><\/span>The same course was <\/span><\/span><\/span>also <\/span><\/span><\/span>initiated with <\/span><\/span><\/span>the 2019-21 batch of B. Ed. <\/span><\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span><\/span>tudents <\/span><\/span><\/span>at the same college.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>

In collaboration with <\/span><\/span><\/span>VTC<\/span><\/span><\/span>, we conducted a<\/span><\/span><\/span> five-day certificate course <\/span><\/span><\/span>on <\/span><\/span><\/span>ICT Integration in Teaching<\/span><\/span><\/span> for student-teachers from B. Ed. colleges <\/span><\/span><\/span>across <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bengaluru, <\/span><\/span><\/span>introducing them to<\/span><\/span><\/span> a variety of generic and subject-specific software applications to develop lesson plans and other resources.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

ITfC entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Sri Sarvajna College of Education (SSCE), a reputed institution in the area of teacher education, to offer pre-service programs for student-teachers and teacher-educators. As part of this collaboration, two-day workshops on integrating ICT in pre-service teacher education were organized for B. Ed. students at SSCE and RV Teachers College (RVTC).<\/span><\/p>

Work with school systems
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Nagaraju D., a national resource person, receiving the National ICT Award from Sanjay Dhothre, Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development. Nagaraju sir has been a Master Trainer in our Telangana program<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Gurumurthy Kasinathan was invited to become a member of the Academic Council of <\/span><\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Karnataka Residential Education Institutions Society (KREIS), <\/span><\/span><\/span>one of <\/span><\/span><\/span>the highest <\/span><\/span><\/span>autonomous <\/span><\/span><\/span>academic <\/span><\/span><\/span>bodies<\/span><\/span><\/span> of the state\u2019s Social Welfare department <\/span><\/span><\/span>that<\/span><\/span><\/span> runs schools for children from socially marginalized backgrounds. <\/span><\/span><\/span>H<\/span><\/span><\/span>e was part of <\/span><\/span><\/span>deliberations to <\/span><\/span><\/span>develop <\/span><\/span><\/span>an academic plan for KREIS schools. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

ITfC <\/span><\/span><\/span>designed and conducted an orientation <\/span><\/span><\/span>session <\/span><\/span><\/span>for 85 KREIS teachers \u2014 <\/span><\/span><\/span>under our <\/span><\/span><\/span>ICT Integration in Teaching program \u2014 <\/span><\/span><\/span>aiming<\/span><\/span><\/span> to equip them as<\/span><\/span><\/span> Master Resource Persons <\/span><\/span><\/span>(MRPs), who, in turn, will <\/span><\/span><\/span>train<\/span><\/span><\/span> other teachers. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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

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Over the past year, the ITfC team designed, organized, and conducted several other workshops, including:<\/p>\n\n

A workshop for head teachers of 100 schools on digital tools and methods for classroom teaching, in collaboration with Kristu Jayanti College.<\/p>\n\n

A workshop for college teachers across the country on concept mapping and video resource development at Ramanujan College, Delhi University.<\/p>\n\n \t\n

A workshop to support the RIESI faculty in developing new open-access (for the public) certificate courses.<\/p>\n\n

Training on Geogebra and H5P software applications for mathematics and English teachers from government schools in Telangana.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOER development in Indian languages<\/span><\/strong>\n\nOpen Educational Resources (OER) are a critical part of imparting high quality and inexpensive education. Unfortunately, most OERs are available only in English. To fill this knowledge gap, we had started integrating the development of OERs in Indian languages as a component of our teacher development programs, with support from <\/span>Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR.<\/span>\n\nDuring 2019-20, 15 articles on language and language teaching were translated into Kannada from English, as part of a collaboration with Azim Premji University. Most of these pertain to ITfC\u2019s language teaching work while others focus on designing a language policy in education. Our collaborations with other teacher-education institutions also contributed to the creation and publication of OERs. Overall, 102 resource pages and 298 files were created and published on the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) in the past year.<\/span>\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

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The ITfC team also translated important components of the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) user interface into Kannada, so that Kannada-speaking student-teachers, teachers, and teacher-educators could access e-learning courses on Moodle.<\/span><\/p>

A Wikithon<\/span><\/a><\/u> was conducted for the student-teachers of VTC to translate articles on English Wikipedia into Kannada. As part of this initiative, 20 articles were published by teams of student-teachers on the Kannada Wikipedia.<\/span><\/p>

Teachers’ Communities of Learning\u00a0 program with Bengaluru schools
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ITfC<\/span><\/span> continued to engage with teachers through the Teachers’ Communities of Learning <\/span><\/span>(TCoL)<\/span><\/span> program in Bengaluru <\/span><\/span>South district<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Supported by the Cognizant Foundation, the program aims <\/span><\/span>to strengthen participatory learning <\/span><\/span>and student engagement through<\/span><\/span> contextualized teaching. <\/span><\/span>This <\/span><\/span>involves:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>