Thanks Shubham! a) yes, agreed that delivery will be crucial (and may well be harder than the development). We haven’t done a study ourselves, however are basing our work on several other studies:
the Annual Status of Education Report found that 2⁄3 of rural students had access to a smartphone. I presume (and am backed by my own experience) that this is higher in urban areas.
Our literature review found several studies of EdTech in India, though most of these involved the researchers/school providing the hardware, rather than using parents’ phones.
b) My organisation, DEVI Sansthan, has partnered with Teach for India in the past, and we’re aware of Pratham, Labhya, LLF, CSF etc’s work. We are ourselves quite well grounded in the frustrating intricacies of the Indian education system, through rolling out the paper-based ALfA program in thousands of schools. But it’s a good point that if we involve some other organisations in the development of the program, then they could be very helpful in distributing it (in a sense, this is what we are hoping with Google’s ReadAlong).
Thanks Shubham!
a) yes, agreed that delivery will be crucial (and may well be harder than the development). We haven’t done a study ourselves, however are basing our work on several other studies:
the Annual Status of Education Report found that 2⁄3 of rural students had access to a smartphone. I presume (and am backed by my own experience) that this is higher in urban areas.
Our literature review found several studies of EdTech in India, though most of these involved the researchers/school providing the hardware, rather than using parents’ phones.
b) My organisation, DEVI Sansthan, has partnered with Teach for India in the past, and we’re aware of Pratham, Labhya, LLF, CSF etc’s work. We are ourselves quite well grounded in the frustrating intricacies of the Indian education system, through rolling out the paper-based ALfA program in thousands of schools. But it’s a good point that if we involve some other organisations in the development of the program, then they could be very helpful in distributing it (in a sense, this is what we are hoping with Google’s ReadAlong).
Thanks again!