Webinar on Educational Technologies in Schools

[Gurumurthy K]

Dear all,

The advent of modern day ICT in education makes it necessary to build a critical awareness and better understanding of the possibilities, benefits and challenges of EdTech and evaluate its role in enhancing different aspects of the education system. With the objective of facilitating this, a webinar has been planned with Prof. Rajaram Sharma, Former Joint Director, CIET, NCERT and author of the ‘Landscape Report on Educational Technology in Schools’. In order to ensure that the discussions in the webinar are relevant and of value to educators and other stakeholders in the education sector, we are inviting questions and topic suggestions to be taken up for discussion during the event. Following are some suggestive areas based on the report that can be explored during the webinar. We request you take a look at the report and submit specific questions/topics related to these areas or any other concerning Education technologies in the Google form(link below) before 2nd November 2022.

Suggestive areas:
    1. Evolution of EdTech over the years: Perspectives on historical trends, their impacts, implications for current day EdTech
    2. Digital technologies in schooling processes - uses, challenges in the Indian context. EdTech for teaching-learning, assessments, teacher preparedness, administration and communication
    3. Requirements for effective integration of digital technologies – State preparedness, infrastructure, teachers capacity building, enabling students
    4. Current trends in EdTech: Emerging EdTech products and services, their educational value and implications
    5. Recommendations for State interventions: Investments needed, prioritization, principles to be adhered to
    6. Evaluating EdTech: Parameters to be considered when assessing EdTech products and services

Link to Google form: https://forms.gle/nYtroRoEbZxxLHC67

Link to Report: https://educationemergency.net/2022/10/landscape-report-on-educational-technology-in-schools/

From,

IT for Change, Bengaluru

www.ITforChange.net