Workshop in CAL (Science and Mathematics teachers)

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 College of Engineering and faculty from IT for Change and RV Educational Consortium. The participants came from all parts of Karnataka and were exclusively high school science and mathematics teachers. These teachers will work with other teachers in their respective schools to build their capacities to use these tools in the regular teaching-learning processes in mathematics and science subjects.

About IT for Change

IT for Change, an NGO located in Bengaluru, India, seeks to promote innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for socio-economic change in the global south. Current ICTs for Development approaches tend to over-valorise technology. They bring ideologies of market fundamentalism to development, replacing the cornerstone ethics of participation, social justice and gender equality.