A Hindi resource website for teachers and schools on an open-source digital platform was launched in the Capital to help teachers who cannot access the wealth of Hindi e-teaching learning resources due to language, geography and context barriers.
The website — www.padhopyarse.net — is an initiative by Katha and Tech Mahindra Foundation.
Katha Reading Excellence & Teacher Education (KREATE) centre has come out with a ‘bricks and clicks’ initiative for teacher education to create engaged educators who will create a nation of engaged students.
The team worked with more than 90 ‘Cloud Gurus’ (teachers) in 75 civic body schools here during the pilot programme, with the aim that the website will now be widely used by teachers across India’s Hindi-speaking belt.
At the launch, Tech Mahindra Foundation CEO Loveleen Kacker said the government works very well with hardware, such as acquiring land asset for schools, midday meals, and resource material for students. However, this project has enabled it to build software, i.e., teachers’ knowledge and training facilities that create a space for interaction, idea-sharing and experience exchange.
The goal of the project is to support teachers in making classrooms more innovative and improving the quality of learning, thereby impacting over 15,000 children in civic body schools, and many more in the near future.
