ABSTRACT
The use of digital technologies in education (‘EdTech’) has created problems of centralization of control over educational processes as well as privatization of education. The use of proprietary EdTech creates a dangerous vendor lock-in, in which teacher agency and…
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The Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change, seeks to build participatory models that strengthen teacher agency, school autonomy, adolescent education and community participation, in partnership with public education systems. Our field projects systemically integrate digital technologies for connecting, creating and collaborating at school, district and state levels. Our research includes digital intelligence, collaborative OER models, communities of practice and free and open technologies.
Our research and practice inputs to national and state curriculum programs, and the courses we offer with academic institutions. In our advocacy with government institutions and civil society, we critique dominant models that privatize education through outsourcing, or centralize control with bureaucracies and vendors, and argue the necessity and possibilities for empowering choices of digital technologies in education.
One of our dreams, as teacher educators, has been to work towards eliminating the gap that exists between academicians on one hand and teachers on the other. Academicians read, write, theorize, and research while teachers teach.
In a small way, this dream was realized when our work with the…
The CSET 2025 Bengaluru and New Delhi edition was one of many CSET 2025 events that happened across the globe between February 17th and February 21st, 2025 in response to a call from Prof. Neil Selwyn, Faculty of…
The webinar titled 'Exploring Generative AI in UK Higher Education: Perspectives from Institutions, Educators, and Students' was organized on the 2nd of May, 2025 by The Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) Research Interest Group 154 (Education and Technology), Critical EdTech India (CETI…
IT for Change wrote a chapter - "RTE in Karnataka: Pursuit of Equitable and Inclusive Education through RTE", for the publication, "Implementation of the right of children to Free and Compulsory Education act, 2009: Where do we stand? Status report 2024" of the Right to Education Cell (RTE CELL) of…
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Government High School teachers share experiences from the Bengaluru South 3 Block 'Community of Learning'
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