While education technology is making its way to high-end private schools, CLT, on the other hand, is deeply immersed in bringing education technology to government schools. Thus, CLT e-Patashale was conceptualized, to bring about a transformation in rural classrooms.
The strategy is to build a replicable and scalable model where the master-teachers design innovative pedagogy for STEM for the local practitioners and develop low-cost technology delivery models. Technology is also leveraged for replication to other regional languages and scale. The entire program architecture is built around giving access to quality education in remote areas by upskilling teachers. CLT ensures that content can be accessed without internet. Solar panels are provided where electricity is a challenge.
The digital STEM content is for 5th-10th grades, based on NCERT syllabus. It has concept-based videos real-time experiments, activity-based learning and assessments. The repository consists of 15,000+ STEM videos in 4 regional languages, 2,000+ digital workbooks for teachers
Collaboration with State and District level governments, corporates, NGOs and local communities have made the model sustainable.
For delivery of content, we have developed one classroom app and two mobile apps.
STEM Experiential Learning
CLT recognises that experiential learning is equally important to supplement the classroom learning. In addition to the CLT e-Patashale learning labs, it also conducts workshops with volunteers to develop STEM learning kits which are then distributed to government schools.
So far, more than 10,000 volunteer hours have been utilised to deliver 4,000 STEM kits to schools.
