How many times do you visit wikipedia in a week? Have you ever thought of how wikipedia came into existence? Yes! Its tagline ‘The Free Encyclopedia’ tells its story. Encyclopedia Britannica aimed to make a collection of all human knowledge. But, they stopped their print edition in 2012. The wikipedia we see today was started…
Do you know the reason for how the leaning tower of Pisa is standing strong? Are all the interventions in education sector this strong? It dates back to 1173 (12th century) when the Republic of Pisa set to increase the sizes of the buildings at the central square to make it a magnificent landmark.…
CoLab dreams of ‘a global community for education equity’. Because we believe that it is where everything starts. A shared vision with different approaches to achieve it will help bring in constructive changes that are scalable and sustainable. In this blog, I would like to take you through the implications and actions of evidence-informed…
Time to decide which question we are exploring an answer for! Pause and reflect on these 3 questions before reading further: Does knowledge about ‘what works’ exists? Is teaching an intervention and learning an outcome? Can we make education work? Hoping that you have reflected on them, let me now take you…
Is education being driven by the research or researchers? Around 8% of the total workforce is in the education sector. All of us want every child to have an enriching learning experience. While that is the world we all dream of, are we keeping up well with the process? As we all know,…
Digitalisation of Education The thrust for greater digitalization of education has been made by the government through several initiatives, such as DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing), online MOOC courses related to NIOS, e-Pathshala web portal, and the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) which provides e-content for students, teachers, educators, and parents. The…
Much different than making school home or making home a school. The future of education is here or it is on its way. A new type of ‘School’ will mark the education system in the next few years: homeschool. The internet revolution has begun, and it is not going away anytime soon. Video-conferencing companies…
This is a question Rafi asked me recently at work. Rafi leads Mantra4Change’s team that works with district-level leadership in Tumkur. His question came from concerns about a low cluster head-to-teacher ratio (even lower as you go up the ed-leadership ladder) in Karnataka and this mentor cadre’s primary role being supervisory. His curiosity about whether…
*Pragatiya Hejje is an Annual District-level Celebration Event for School Leaders in Karnataka Today, at the lunch table at the Mantra4Change office in Bengaluru, Sindhu from the Kalaburagi Team exclaimed joyfully, looking at her phone. She shared a testimonial coming in live from the Pragatiya Hejje* event: Shaila has struggled with speech impairment for the longest time.…
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