Education and ICTs

The Policy Planning Unit (PPU) of the Education Department, Government of Karnataka, in their continuing effort to create ‘Master Trainers on Public Software educational tools’, organised a 2 day workshop on November 19th and 20th with resource support from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Azim Premji Foundation, infrastructure support from RV…

This workshop was conducted to give Institutional Capacity Development team (Mandya) an overview on ICT possibilities in education and thus to explore how ICT can be effectively used in ICD programme to achieve its objectives.

On the first day, Gurumurthy began with a discussion on 'what is education…

The objectives of the Teachers Community of Learning (TCoL) programme is two-fold. The first objective is to create an on-line community of teachers to enable them to network, share resources, seek assistance and voice their opinions of education policy and day-to-day school transactions and eventually enable the…

8th September:

The first day of this TCoL workshop was held in GMPS Puttenahalli. It was a conscious move on our part to conduct this workshop in a school as we felt that teachers would be more comfortable and have…

Last Tuesday, Bindu Thirumalai gave a talk in front of D.Ed. principals about the potential of ICTs to enhance teachers' training, as well as their professional experience through the use of ICTs in the classroom and to build networks with colleagues. Find out more by reading the handout, checking the presentation…

Original query

Pre-service teacher development is an important stepping stone for being able to have teachers who are prepared for the task ahead.  In-service programs in that sense have to be linked to them and need to build on what pre-service programs do. In fact in-service…

The objectives of this workshop were:

- To introduce teachers and department officials to the program's goals and processes.

- To identify the interested teachers for the project.

- To brainstorm with them on possible strategies for using ICTs in Education.

- To introduce them to the basics on computer use and the…

The Policy Planning Unit (PPU) of the Education Department, Government of Karnataka, organized workshops to train 120 government teacher educators' from DIETs and BRCs, as ‘Master Trainers on Public Software educational tools', during August 2010, with resource support from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Azim Premji Foundation, infrastructure…

On the 21st of July IT for Change organised an interaction for around 50 student-teachers from Netherlands and around 20 of their counterparts from Bangalore. These student-teachers from The Netherlands were part of Edukans Education Experience Program where students exchange information and knowledge with students abroad. The Indian students…

The Government schools have reopened, which means the TCoL team is back in action! During the month of June, we visited our chosen schools and have been installing Ubuntu in the computers there. During the installation process, we have been training the teachers and the students to install this themselves. We had a great…