[Educationsupport] Education Support Group Meeting this week

Mon Sep 20 08:02:09 IST 2021

Dear all,

Please find attached the meeting notes and public chat from our last meet.

Also, if you are emailing the resources to me please send it across to 
anusha.sharma at itforchange.net <anusha.sharma at itforchange.net>. 
(/anusha at itforchange.net /belongs to someone else)

Thanks & Regards,
Anusha

On 20/09/21 7:20 am, Sriranjani Ranganathan wrote:
> Dear friends
> I hope you have received my email regarding the proposed way of 
> organizing the resources. Do share your thoughts and feedback on the 
> same.
> _There will be no meeting of the group this week _; we thought this 
> week could be best used by us in collecting resources, organizing and 
> uploading them...
>
> Requesting your support in two key areas:
> 1.  Please share the resources that you have accessed/ used/ created 
> in your work with children and communities during the course of your 
> work, including these last 17 months.  As I have said earlier, these 
> can be in any format. You could email me or anusha at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:anusha at itforchange.net>; alternatively upload these on your 
> Google drive and give edit access to (sriranjani.ranganathan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sriranjani.ranganathan at gmail.com> and itfc.education at gmail.com 
> <mailto:itfc.education at gmail.com>).
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> 2.  Identify teacher networks/ groups with whom we could demonstrate 
> the resources that are being collected.  One of our key objectives is 
> to influence teachers' imagination of what is possible - and provide 
> supporting resources and these demonstrations/ dissemination would be 
> very helpful. Hopefully we can reach out through networks that each of 
> us has access to.
>
> _Our next  meeting will be on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 5.00 - 6.30 
> PM._
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> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best regards
> Ranjani
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> To help us reach out to more people and get the resources and 
> organized, we would need a bit of time.
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> We will therefore not be having the meeting this week.
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> Request you to share the resources in the way
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_Regards_

*Anusha Sharma *
Program Assistant - Education
*IT for Change* <http://www.ITforChange.net/>
Bengaluru - 560041
Mobile : +91-9731999533 *| *Office Phone : 080 2653 6890

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[17:00] arun: sure
[17:01] arun: Good evening all
[17:02] ramanujam: hello all
[17:02] Ranjani: Welcome to all of you
[17:02] Ranjani: We will start in a couple of minutes
[17:03] atanu sain: Good evening all.
[17:12] Ekta_TISS: Are we thinking of integrating different language resources?
[17:13] Gurumurthy: language we can provide in different pages (by language) and link resources of one kind
[17:13] Gurumurthy: this is a media wiki platform (used by wikipedia) so we can try a similar approach to multiple language support
[17:15] Ekta_TISS: Yes, that makes sense...also languages may also require levels
[17:16] Anusha: https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/User:Ranjani/Test_Page
[17:18] Gurumurthy: Atanu is with Vikramshila, NGO that has been working  with teachers, students, parents across multiple states - WB, UP, Rajasthan
[17:18] Ranjani: This repository will be OER
[17:18] Gurumurthy: the copyright belongs to the creator. but we share to enable teachers to download and use
[17:19] Gurumurthy: to enable teachers to use it (download/customize/share), we will need to use a copyright clause such as Creative Commons CC BY SA...
[17:20] Gurumurthy: If we use the 'all rights reserved' copyright then nobody will have any right to download
[17:22] Ranjani: Thanks, Damu
[17:23] Ranjani: The resources will be categorized in different age groups
[17:23] Anu Sittilingi: My internet connection is very bad. I kept getting cut off..now and then. I think you couldn't hear me. I will respond when the connection becomes more stable. Congrats on a very comprehensive framework of resources.
[17:26] Gurumurthy: also secondary education
[17:33] Akila: Ranjani I have selected  few of the math worksheets that you had sent   and have  provided to near  by   small scale english medium primary school ..The teacher was more than welcoming  to use them.
[17:34] Gurumurthy: yes, we are fully open to embrace all ideas/resources that are available... this platform can easily encompass these.
[17:36] ramanujam: arun please do share the climate change curriculum and your extensive experience with ecology and children, we (in every sense of we) need it.
[17:37] ramanujam: if we can get permission to link to krishamurti journal it will be very useful
[17:39] Gurumurthy: structuring mechanism can handle the 'overload' so we can have lots but expose carefully (curation)
[17:41] Ranjani: Yes - we can perhaps write to kfi and explore that possibility.
[17:41] arun: Thank you Ramanujam for your positive and encouraging response
[17:43] Gurumurthy: we can put out mail ids on the resource page inviting comments. (a suggestion)
[17:43] Gurumurthy: we can also have a simple feedback form also
[17:44] Gurumurthy: Subhankar is from BVGS Karnataka.
[17:44] Gurumurthy: he has come before but all may not know all  :-)
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[17:49] Sajitha Bashir: Just restating my suggestions, in case they were not clear: Make this a  distinctive and relatively small resource collection, of high quality materials, focused on resources developed /used by NGOs etc during COVID, which can be adapted for use now.  This would help not only teachers but also state govts/ SCERTs etc.   And in terms of presentation, group them  - eg  Foundational Literacy . Foundational numeracy etc
[17:50] Ranjani: Thank you Sajitha - have made a note
[17:51] Gurumurthy: we can help BGVS in documenting it.. will be glad to
[17:51] Gurumurthy: digitize as needed.
[17:52] atanu sain: We need to have at least two years strategy planning to enable children to catchup the grade level learning. At the same time need to make state government  to understand that there is no quick fix solution. Can we say state government that forget about syllabus, textbooks etc. for the time being and concentrate on basics? Resource is important but what kind of pedagogical practices are we advocating for is equally important.
[17:52] Akila: Just able  to hear  but not able to talk
[17:54] Subhankar: thanks Guru
[17:54] Gurumurthy: yes Atanu, agree.
[17:54] Gurumurthy: this is not a short term program.
[17:54] Akila: would appreciate if we can provide something to start with for the teachers  as early as possible
[17:55] Mythili: We can have students volunteer for documenting and building the resource repository
[17:55] Ranjani: Prof. Mythili that would be enormously helpful
[17:57] Sajitha Bashir: Responding to ATanu - yes, this should be a 2 year program (at least).  And I also agree that we need to articulate that pedagogical practices need to change.  However, the problem with saying (publicly) that the state govt should forget about syllabus, textbooks, exams etc is that this will be interpreted as highly inequitable for the children of poor, dalits, advisasis etc in govt schools (while the richer private schools go back to normal). This is a political minefield.
[17:58] Gurumurthy: Mythili that would be great! they will be easily able to edit and add to the wiki.
[17:59] atanu sain: Agreed Sajitha.
[17:59] arun: As i had informed earlier, i need to go now. Be in touch with you all. Thank you, everyone.
[18:00] Sajitha Bashir: I will also have to leave now. Will catch up later , thank you
[18:09] Ekta_TISS: Just reflecting on the conversation so far: I just wanted to add that that I really resonated with Sanjitha's comments. It might be good to focus efforts to build learning gaps between at particular age levels. In addition, also help provide resources on ways others can also become part of the efforts (like general public in their own area/locality) . Eg. https://826national.org/about/ (An organisation in US. that focuses on using volunteers beyond schools to build writing and reading in children in low income areas) . This is also because we will need others to get involved. Perhaps making a section for different kinds of ways public can get involved.
[18:13] ramanujam: i think discussing the experiences of people here in getting the public involved would in itself be valuable and indicative.
[18:18] atanu sain: Thank you Rajaram, this is really encouraging.
[18:25] Rajaram - Asha: yes
[18:25] Brinda: ok with me
[18:25] Subhankar: yes.
[18:25] atanu sain: Yes
[18:25] Akila: yes
[18:25] ramanujam: yes
[18:25] Anusha: Yes
[18:26] Poll Results:
Polling Question
is wednesday OK 

Yes: 8 ||||||||||||||||||||| 100%
No: 0 | 0%
Abstention: 0 | 0%
[18:28] ramanujam: cetainly yes
[18:30] Gurumurthy: we can create e list?
[18:31] Gurumurthy: that will allow threaded discussions
[18:31] atanu sain: Please excuse me, now I have to leave. Thank you all.
[18:32] Ekta_TISS: I too will have to leave. Can respond through email. Thanks
[18:32] Gurumurthy: tq all
[18:32] Subhankar: thank you all
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