Teachers drive student learning.
Technology allows for creation and dissemination of high-quality plans for more effective instruction with reduced teacher effort. This can lead to a systemic increase in lesson quality.
Technology can transform the role of a teacher from an instructor to a guide that supports students through a personalized learning journey in the classroom –- redefining what a classroom looks like.
Tech can allow for large scale delivery of quality TPD that provides flexibility and agency to teachers for their own learning.
A nascent but disruptive category which envisions automatic creation, dissemination, and correction of homework, allowing teachers to plan for more targeted interventions to support learning.
Technology enables and automates the creation of increasingly engaging assessments. Easy collection of reliable performance data can feed into and redefine lesson preparation and delivery.
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Teacher has access to tools and content to prepare lessons, catered to the different learning levels of students in class
Technology reduces teacher effort to create engaging and personalized lesson plans
Text-based lesson plans
(structured)
Multimedia enhanced lesson plans
Personalized lesson plans
(structured)
Unstructured
Structured
Structured and editable
Structured and editable LPs, strengthened through peer community
- Teacher accesses high quality, ready to use lesson plans
that are syllabus aligned
- But these are only text-based, leaving room to
incorporate various content formats
- Teacher accesses a “laundry-list” of multimedia content
(image, audio, videos etc.)
- But teacher needs to put in effort to
comb through and select what suits her lesson plan
- Teacher accesses ready to use lesson plans that are syllabus
aligned
- But, these cannot be edited by the teacher
- Teacher accesses editable ready to use lesson plans
that are syllabus aligned
- But, these are still not differentiated plans for the class
- Teacher accesses virtual
communities to collaborate and solicit feedback on lesson plans - “virtual
staffroom”
- But, lesson plans are not automatically differentiated
- Teacher accesses differentiated lesson plans that are
automatically created
- They are built using students’ progress data and learning
levels
App / Web based
Web + AI
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Teacher executes the lesson plan through different modalities
Technology enables the teacher provide increasingly personalized instruction to students
One-way
Teacher is an instructor,
delivering instruction as learners consume pre-set content
Interactive
Teacher is a
facilitator, learners independently interact with content at their own pace
Personalized
Teacher is a coach,
guiding students as tech enables personalized instruction
- Teacher instructs students to watch content broadcasted on television at home
- Teacher sends content to students via text message
- Teacher uses multimedia content (text, A/V) via smart boards, live tutoring platforms, apps, tablets, computers, etc.
- Teacher uses ability matched textual material, including 3D experiences and simulations, and games to deliver lessons
- Teacher supports student learning as he/she engages with immersive learning content via AR / VR
- Teacher uses student performance data to provide differentiated support as students engage with AI driven platforms with personalised learning content, either in the classroom, remotely via virtual classrooms, or over live-tutoring platforms
- But all students interact with the same content and are expected to move at the same pace
- All students learn the same syllabus/content, albeit at their own pace using individual learning paths
- Each student engages with content tailored to their learning needs, at their own pace
TV
SMS/Whatsapp
Video/Multimedia
App / Web
AR/VR
App/Web + AI
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In-service teachers leverage digital platforms to strengthen and develop their skills and knowledge for more effective instruction.
Technology enables scalability and flexibility of TPD, providing agency to teachers for their growth
Focus areas for TPD
Content and conceptual mastery
Effective instructional practices
Digital literacy
Teachers access content that allows them to improve and achieve mastery over core academic concepts.
Teachers access content that enables them to improve their skills and classroom practices for effective delivery of instruction.
Teachers access content to build their capacity for using digital tools in the classroom. Content can focus on developing skills around usage of EdTech tools or leveraging data to drive technology-supported instruction.
Delivered via
Social communities
Teachers learn from local and global teacher communities by sharing best practices, resolving doubts, and collaborating with peers via virtual community platforms.
At-scale training
Teachers' professional development is systematically facilitated by institutional channels such as states, districts, implementers, and administrators via customized training modules delivered at scale using tech platforms.
Certification and micro-credentialing
Teachers signal their professional capabilities by earning certifications or micro credentials via tools that that assess and certify their teaching competencies.
APP/Web based
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Teachers assign homework to students in order to strengthen understanding of concepts already taught and delivered in the classroom.
Technology reduces teachers’ time and effort to create, assign &ensure compliance for homework
Tech for homework dissemination
Tech for homework compliance
Tech for homework creation
Holistic homework platforms
- Teacher shares homework with students outside the classroom using generic communication/specific homework platforms
- Teacher reminds students and parents to complete homework using technology that automates communication and reduces teacher effort
- Teacher creates homework assignments using ready-made resources or by curating questions through repositories, saving time spent on homework creation
-Teacher spends limited time andeffort to create, assign, increase compliance and correct homework using end to end aggregated homework platforms that can automate these functions
- But teachers still spend time and effort in homework creation and its completion
- But teachers still spend time and effort in homework creation
- But teachers still spend time and effort in dissemination and ensuring homework completion
- Teachers have end-to-end support for homework including access to insightful data
Phone/Web based
APP/Web based
App/Web based + AI + OCR
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(Formative & Summative)
Assessments conducted to regularly
track students’ understanding andperformance
Technology reduces effort to create engaging assessments
Text-based
Tech for homework dissemination
Interactive
Gamified
Personalized and adaptive
- Tech enables assignment and correction of objective, text-based assessments; including customized assessment paths
- Tech enables easy creation of subjective and objective (with auto correction) assessments in interactive formats, and provides real time student performance data at a deeper level including when students are guessing, key misconceptions etc.
- Tech enables creation and autocorrection of engaging assessments and providing real-time data on student performance
- Tech enables auto curation, assignment and correction of assessments that adapt to the students’ learning level
- But this does not cater to subjective assessments
- But there is room to increase student engagement
- But do not cater to individual students’ learning levels
Phone + Web
Clickers + Phone + Web+ AI
Web/app based + AI
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Each child is unique - this should not only be recognised but also
celebrated.
Technology increases the student’s agency in directing their learning, via a basket of innovative solutions offering engaging and personalised learning experiences
Technology enables greater student independence by provision of on-demand services through virtual communities and AI backed solution repositories to resolve doubts
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The student independently learns new content, practices content covered in the class to develop mastery or accesses previous content to address learning gaps
Technology enables a higher degree of personalization to individual student’s learning needs
Pre-set content
Interactive content
Personalised content
- Student accesses learning content
through
public broadcasts following a set timetable
- Student initiates a call to access pre-recorded stories and activities
- Student receives text messages with instructional content, questions and activities
- Student learns concepts via game-based interactive text messages
- Student selects A/V content to view basis their own needs/interest
- Student learns through game based or gamified content platforms, exercising choice on their learning paths
- Student interacts with content in a simulated or augmented reality, enhancing their engagement
- Student engages with personalized content that adapts to their learning level
- But student can neither select nor interact with content
- But content is not customized to student’s learning levels
Radio/TV
IVRS
Messaging
TV/Web
App/Web
AR/VR
App/Web + AI/ML
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Student identifies doubts and queries throughout the learning process, and resolves them by accessing resources that allow him to learn and apply information that was previously unclear
Technology enables students to become increasingly independent in the doubt resolution process
Person dependent
Community dependent
Independent
Teachers
Online live tutoring
Virtual community
Online content resources
Automated matching to solution
- Student can send messages (text, audio/video) to teachers for immediate doubt resolution
- Student can get help with specific doubts by an expert from an online pool of teachers
- Student can post queries in online forms and get answers from peers and/or teachers
- Student independently uses resources online, e.g. search engines, curated repositories etc. to solve doubts
- Student uploads doubts to a platform that instantly matches it to the appropriate solutions
- But student is dependent on only known teachers, and their availability
- But student is still dependent on tutors’ availability
- But quantity and quality of responses is not consistently reliable
- But student may still spend considerable time in the process
- Student needs to put minimal effort to resolve doubts instantly and independently
SMS/Multimedia
Web based
OCR + AI
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Parents are intrinsically invested in the success of their children.
Technology enables increased depth and quality of communication between teachers and parents
Technology enables parents to increase their own capacity to meaningfully engage in their child’s learning journey
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Teachers / schools leverage digital platforms to strengthen teacher-parent communication
Technology enables increased depth and quality of engagement between parents and teachers
One-way information sharing
Two-way information exchange
Broadcast
Helpline numbers
Text messages
Multimedia communication via generic platforms
Textual communication via dedicated platforms
Multimedia communication via dedicated platforms
- Parent receives updates about school events through locally produced TV programs and radio shows
- Parents can call a school / district helpline for pre-recorded updates
- Parents receive information via text messages from teachers/school
-Parents can engage in a dialogue with teachers leveraging existing communication platforms
- Parents receive updates and can keep track of child’s learning and activities at school
- Parents and teachers can communicate using multimedia messages and create engaging virtual communities
- But parents can miss the update if they miss the broadcast
- But parents cannot engage in a conversation for specific questions
- But there is room for missed messages
- But there is room to make the communication more engaging
TV/Radio
IVRS
SMS
Web-based
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Parent uses tools to engage with their child’s learning(academic and SEL) at home and build their own capacity to do so meaningfully
Technology enables parents to provide increased level of learning support to their children
Content broadcast
One-way content sharing
Two-way communication to facilitate engagement with content
Homeschooling platforms for parent to engage with child’s learning
Content to build parents’ capacity to drive child’s learning
- Parent accesses learning content broadcasted on TV to engage with the child
- Parent receives activities to conduct with child through SMS/IVRS
- Parent can discuss and get assistance to conduct the activities better with the child
- Parent uses a platform to select learning content for their child and access dashboards to keep a track of their performance/progress
- Parent engages with nuanced, targeted information that equips them with the skills and knowledge to drive the child’s learning and development process
TV
Messaging/Calls
Web platforms
Web platforms
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