Advocacy

IT for Change (ITfC) has been very active in campaigning to challenge the draft policy on 'ICT in schools' published by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), advocating against the role given to technology vendors, with vested interests, in the policy-making processes. More recently, ITfC has started promoting the use of Public Software in the Indian education system as Public Software, at its very basis, ensures equity and social justice.

The presentation discusses the key challenges facing teacher education and the need to evolve new models of teacher education that are need based, self directed and self paced learning with continuous mentoring, such models are...

The presentation explains the need for state governments to move from 'first generation programs' where students only learn word, notepad, paint etc, bypassing teachers, to "second generation programs" - where teachers use software tools to...

Based on our advocacy work relating to NPISE, the issue of 'vendor driven ICT programs' was discussed in the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) and a sub-committee was setup to study the issue.

Public software is 'software developed or procured, for the public good, which is publicly owned' (Guiding principles for public sector software). It is essential for...

Computer learning programmes in schools (CLPS) in India have largely failed to achieve their goals of positively impacting learning processes and outcomes in schools. Implemented usually through 'PPP' (Public Private Partnership) models, these programmes have been treated largely as  silos. Schools and teachers have not seen  computer learning as an...

 

Resources
Teachers' Communities of Learning project, 2010-2011
Impact assessment study on the 'Regional resource centre for elementary education' (RRCE)
ICT programmes in schools in Yadgir District
Advocacy campaigns for a national policy on ICT in school education - 2008-2011
Computer learning programmes in schools - Moving from BOOT models to an integrated approach
Karnataka ICT@Schools Programme
State Master Trainers on Public Software educational tools programme
What is Public Software?
Policy brief – ICTs in education. Outsourced versus Integrated Approach

Events