Center for Education & Tech

💡On World Technology Day, we're spotlighting a powerful learning technology that often goes unnoticed: audio storytelling. 🎧Across India, LEAP — Language Education through Audio-story-based Pedagogy — is transforming language classrooms by putting audio stories at the centre of learning. The program strengthens the foundational skills children need most: listening and speaking. 🖥️ It also builds teacher capacity — empowering educators to create and use these stories meaningfully, through free and open source software. ✉️ The LEAP program is supported by Kotak Mahindra Bank’s CSR initiative. If you work in education, language learning, teacher development, or CSR — we'd love to hear what you're seeing on the ground. What would it take for oracy to get the same structural attention as literacy in Indian classrooms? #WorldTechnologyDay #FoundationalLearning #Oracy #LanguageLearning #OpenSourceEducation #TeacherDevelopment #DigitalJustice #EdTech

IT for Change is hiring for our Public EdTech team. We work with public education systems across India on participatory, open source models that strengthen teacher agency and work towards equitable, high quality education. If you care about education, technology, and social change, apply via the link in bio. Applications close on 20 May 2026. #nonprofit #bengalurujobs #developmentsectorjobs #edtechindia

📍 Stories from the field 💬 Harish P - Technology Associate, IT for Change - shares his experience of participating in an admission school drive with the Government Higher Primary School, Byrasandra in Bengaluru. 💡 With the growing popularity of low-fee private schools, many parents assume that such schools offer better education than government schools. However, private schooling comes with hidden costs, such as annual fee renewals, which can become a financial burden for students from marginalized communities. 👥 IT for Change collaborates with partner government schools to support their enrollment drives, challenge these assumptions, and help families make informed choices about their children's education. #righttoeducation #publiceducation #community #schools #centreforeducationandtechnology

✨Empowering future teachers with career-ready skills 🗣️Sonakshi Raj from @bt_uk facilitated a workshop on employability skills for pre-service teachers at Vijaya Teachers' College, Bengaluru. It aimed to build the participants' communication skills, confidence and resume-building skills, to strengthen their existing subject and pedagogic knowledge. 📄The workshop included input sessions, group activities, and a mock-interview panel encouraging participants to overcome personal inhibitions, identify their strengths, and articulate themselves. 👥60+ pre-service teachers participated in the workshop. #digitalinclusion #teachereducation #communication #confidence #careerready

✨How digital technologies can enhance creativity and language skills 👥We recently concluded our in-school digital literacy program at the Sangameshwara and Byrasandra Government Higher Primary Schools (Bengaluru), with a showcase of the digital picture stories created by the students. 💡The program focussed on strengthening students’ creativity, language skills, and articulation using the medium of digital technologies. 🖥️The students were initially familiarized with foundational computer skills such as mouse control and typing. Progressing to work in small groups, the students were then guided by the project team facilitators to create digital picture stories, practise their presentations in English and showcase their work on the final day. #Edtech #LanguageEducation #CreativeLearning #FOSS #CentreforEducationandTechnology

✨Why do adolescent girls need a safe space like the Kishori Club? 🗨️Teacher-facilitators who lead Kishori Clubs in Karnataka’s government high schools share why. ✊🏽The Kishori Club program is part of IT for Change’s adolescent girl empowerment project Hosa Dishe (‘New Horizons’). It is a collaboration with the Karnataka departments of education and social welfare, supported by @bt_uk and the @thebritishasiantrust . Since their launch in 2023, Kishori Clubs have impacted over 35,000 adolescent girls through teacher-mediated dialogues unpacking the world of adolescence. 👥The Kishori Club Facilitators featured in this film: Deepika CK Chandrakala Ashwini MR Sindhu SK #digitalinclusion #safespace #highschool #techforgood

✨Our ‘Hosa Dishe’ (New Horizons) project team was at the Partners’ Meet organized by BT Group and the British Asian Trust, held in New Delhi. 🤝🏽@bt_uk and @thebritishasiantrust have been supporting our adolescent girl empowerment project through the Hosa Dishe project since 2019. 👥The event was a gathering of partner organizations from across the country. It was an opportunity to showcase our work, learn about others’ experiences, and collaboratively envision empowered futures for adolescents and young people. . . . . . . . #digitalinclusion #collaboration #dialogue #empowerment #centreforinclusionandtechnology

✨Teachers as champions of adolescent girls empowerment 👥 In over 200 government schools across Karnataka, teachers trained as Kishori Club Facilitators, are having important conversations with adolescent girls that no one else will. Through Kishori Clubs, they are creating spaces where adolescent girls can ask questions about their changing bodies, overcoming gender norms and most importantly, about navigating the internet safely. ❓Adolescence comes with curiosities that families and schools often avoid addressing. When girls look for answers online without guidance, they encounter platforms designed to be addictive, content reinforcing gender stereotypes, and risks like cyberbullying. What they rarely find: accurate information or adults they can confide in. ✊🏽Kishori Clubs change that. 💡Kishori Clubs are a cornerstone component of the Hosa Dishe programme – an adolescent girls empowerment initiative in collaboration with the Karnataka state departments of education and social welfare, supported by the BT Group @bt_uk and British Asian Trust @thebritishasiantrust . #digitalinclusion #safespace #highschools #techforgood

✨ Building digital skills in adolescent girls 🖥️ IT for Change facilitated a three-day critical digital literacy camp for eighth standard students from Gangamma Hombegowda Girls High School, Bengaluru.  💡The sessions covered: 1. Practical exercises to enhance the girls’ foundational digital skills such as mouse control and typing 2. Theory sessions to introduce them to productivity tools to enhance the efficiency of their work, and find their relevance in daily life. 👥 80+ girls participated in the camp. The practical sessions were supported by volunteers from the @bt_uk , who helped the girls familiarize themselves with the digital world, and improve their skills in using computers.  @bt_uk @thebritishasiantrust . . . . . #digitalinclusion #digitalskills #techskills #techforgood #centreforeducationandtechnology

✨Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with 5 women achievers from India! 💡Bibha Chowdhury, Janaki Ammal, Kamal Ranadive, Anna Mani and Nasira Akhtar were spotlighted for their contributions to Indian science in a recent campaign on @kishoriadda - our online hangout for adolescent girls. 📱Kishori Adda has been creating empowering digital content for adolescent girls in Kannada since 2023. The handle is a part of IT for Change’s adolescent girl empowerment project Hosa Hejje Hosa Dishe (A New Step in a New Direction), supported by @bt_uk and @thebritishasiantrust . . . . . . . . #digitalinclusion #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #science #centreforeducationandtechnology

📣 We are hiring! ✨ For our adolescent girl empowerment project ‘Hosa Dishe’ (New Horizons), we are looking for: 1. Project Associate (with 3-4 years of relevant experience) 2. Project Assistant (with 0-1 year of relevant experience) 👥 We invite applications from female candidates only. 🗓️ Last date of application: 10 February 2026 🔗 Find more details about job descriptions and the application process in the link in our bio! #hiring #empowerment #newhorizon #CentreForEducationAndTechnology

✨Advocating for open-sourced and community-centric AI technologies 📍Gurumurthy Kasinathan took part in 'Building India's Edge in an Age of Algorithmic Power' - a panel discussion organized as part of the ORF-India Think Tank Forum. The event was organized at Nalanda University, Bihar on the 12th and 13th of January. 🌐Gurumurthy highlighted how the concentration of AI infrastructure in a handful of corporations and economies further structural asymmetries across the globe. He emphasized how India can work with policy, public infrastructure and research-backed information on AI to ensure its digital sovereignty in the global economy. [Big Tech, AI, free and open source software, FOSS, digital technology, algorithm] . . . . . . . #bigtech #digitaltechnology #ai #algorithm #CentreForEducationAndTechnology