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Global Forum 2012

Prague November 28 – December 1

Name of Project: Klassmate

Educator(s) Anil Sonune

SchoolBrief description of

school context

Zilla Parishad Primary School, Nimkheda District Jalna Maharashtra, India

Zilla Parishad Primary School, Savargaon is one of the reputed school in Maharashtra run by Zilla ParishadJalna, A District Local Administrator body. Which runs 90% of primary schools in district. 1035 primary schools in the district with 7890 Teachers and 280000 students. The school educates students from Grade I to Grade VII . This specific school has 210 students and 8 teachers.

School Website http://www.baljagat.com/

Content/Subject

Areas

Languages, Science, Mathematics, Social Studies.

Age/Grade level Grades 1 to 7Microsoft Office 2010, Media Player, Photo editor, Internet Explorer, Windows Movie maker, Microsoft auto collage, Bing Maps, Learning Content Development System, Mouse Mischief, Microsoft Kinect SDK, Microsoft Mathematics

Project Objectives The main objectives of the project are• To provide rural schools with low cost educational solution. • To make optimum use of resources which are limited to give best classroom experience to learners. • To help learners to achieve better academic results.• To spread awareness which ultimately targets to evolve each child into a responsible citizen.• To develop 21st century skills in children

Project Description

Brief description of the project

and the background.

What are the stated objectives

and learning outcomes? Is the

learning activity long-term? Does

it call on students to plan their

work and assess their work over

time?

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Design of the Learning

EnvironmentExamples of planning (e.g.

pedagogic approach, links to

resources used). Please highlight

creativity and innovative teaching

practices. Emphasize to

what extent the planning for

learning facilitates the

development of different

dimensions of 21st century skills

e.g. knowledge building, use of

ICT for learning, problem-solving

and innovation, self-regulation,

collaboration and skilled

communication.

The project is aimed at providing better education to rural students. To find the solution for smallschools for learning through ICT. The idea to build such device came in mind when one of myfellow teachers asked If we, from neighboring schools can share low cost interactive board. Thiswas a challenging job as these schools were small and did not have as much budget in investingLCD Projector, PC. So If the load was shared between two or three such small schools so that Itwas possible to them to have chance to teach with better tools. It was a great experience forstudents as well as teachers as they have the same information and technology tools as any of thebig school would have. As these villages are as small having population between 200 to 400peoples. Now these schools also having the Interactive whiteboard. Some of the outcomes are• Increased overall progress of students.• Absenteeism decreased.• All the fund was raised by School Management Committee and villagers.• Students also find their learning joyful and now love school.• Developed 21st century skills like Creativity, Communication, Team Work, Critical thinking,

Collaboration, Initiative and Problem solving• Brought about an attitudinal change to villagers about their school.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The project involved the open ended Project Based Learning approach in which the Self designed Product Named Klassmate , and various Microsoft tools such as Microsoft Kinect SDK, Mouse mischief, LCDS, Microsoft Office 2010, SkyDrive, Photo story , Bing Maps, were used in combine to enrich the learning experience of student. Klassmate is a device which is a all in one multimedia interactive multimedia solution for classroom teaching. Project was run on ZillaParishad Primary School Savargaon , Jalna, Maharashtra. After One academic year results were very good and teachers from along the district visited school to know more how they can implement on their own school.

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Interdisciplinary Approach

Evidence of Learning

Examples of products and

outcomes created by the

learners throughout the project

– including use of ICT. What

sort of ICT is used and how

has it been used in the project.

To what extent do students use

ICT in ways that support

knowledge

building, collaboration, or

learning beyond the

classroom? Does ICT use

enable new knowledge-

building/collaboration/learning

beyond the classroom

opportunities that would not

have been possible without it?

Have digital tools been used in

imaginative and ground-

breaking ways to support

learning processes?

Please add files, videos etc.

which documents clearly the

learning process and evidence

of students’ learning

Students were taught using Klassmate. Various tools such as Microsoft Learning Suite, Google Sketch up, G Compris Learning Suite for windows were used as per the requirement of the content. World wide telescope was used inteaching Geography, Sketch up models were used to illustrate various body parts in 3D environment. As well as Kinect was used as an input device. Various applications such as Kinect mouse, FAAST were used to perform various classroom activities.Students of age group 6 to 10 years use kinect mouse and various G Compris activities to build basic skills like addition, Subtraction, matching shapes, Vocabulary games, etc.Students of age group 11 to 14 used Google Sketch up models in learning of science. They can explore various body parts in 3D space. Microsoft Mathematics helped student in equation solving , graph plotting, It was possible for them to visualize the problem so they can understand the solution.

Photo story and windows live movie maker were used in about all subjects. With the help of these tools it was possible for them to understand the concepts thoroughly. They also asked additional questions which were answered using internet when possible. Microsoft Mouse Mischief was used to evaluate the lessons after teaching.

Kinect in Classroom

Mouse Mischief

Interactive Whiteboard

World Wide Telescope

Google Sketch up

Classroom Teaching Sample Lesson

Impact

Knowledge

Building & Critical

Thinking

Examples of how the

learning activities

require students to

move beyond

reproducing what they

have learned to building

knowledge through

interpretation, analysis,

synthesis, or evaluation.

Extended Learning

Beyond the

Classroom

If the learning

experience is not bound

by classroom walls,

time-frame of

conventional lessons,

subject parameters –

please show examples

of this.

If the project addresses

real world issues (i.e.

authentic situation and

data from outside the

classroom) or has

meaningful impact on

communities locally and

/ or globally please

During the project students of age group 11 to 14 were divided into groups for discussion about the learned topic. They were given some brainstorming questions. Which they should have answer with discussion with fellow students.Some examples are

• Do you think that there is a life on any planet other than Earth ?• What will happen if we do not use water carefully?• What will be the alternate fuel if hydrocarbon fuels stock ends?

For age group of 6 to 14 activities like mock bazar, in which students sell and buy something to another.A survey was done by students about the water resources of village. 7 grade students were asked to collect data of no. of wells and bore wells when they were in grade 1st. And no. this year. What was the impact of these numbers on water level of village?• There were 5 bore wells and 9 wells in the village and surrounding in year 2005• The number increased to 26 bore wells and 37 wells around village.• The impact was in summer where water level of 5 wells was enough, now almost every

well is dry in February.

As main business in the area is farming students were taken to farm of Shri. RaghunathMhaske, who uses latest methods of farming. They were demonstrated how water amount used in drip irrigation and Sprinklers is much low than that of traditional method. They agreed that in future this is the only method if they wanted to conserve water for

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Collaboration

Examples of how the students

work with other

people, sharing responsibility

while making substantive

decisions for developing a

joint product, a design, or an

answer to a complex

question. Students may be

collaborating with their peers

in the classroom, or with

students or adults outside the

classroom

Cutting Edge Use of

Technology for Learning

The learning activity involves

students’ use of ICT –

whether or not the use of ICT

helps students build

knowledge/collaborate or

learn beyond the

classroom, and whether or

not students could build the

same knowledge/ collaborate

or learn beyond the

classroom in similar ways

without using ICT

As this project was run on small rural schools our means for fund raising was villagers. So each student asked their parents to contribute in the project so All the Fund needed for the project was raised from community. Student played main role in convincing their parents as well as other villagers.

At Zilla Parishad Primary School Zirpi and Zilla Parishad Primary School Sonakpimpalgaon in the same manner funds were raised by village. And both the schools are equipped with Interactive whiteboards.

Block Education Officer of Zmbad Panchayat Mrs. Mangala Dhupe asked teachers of taluka for making their school e-school, fifty more schools also agreed to make the same thing happen in their villages.

The main thing about the project is not a single penny was expected from government, every where funds are raised by community.

As a impact Chief Executive Officer of Zilla Parishad Jalna( Local Administrative Body) allocated fund of 34 lacks for installing interactive whiteboards throughout 24 Zilla Parishad Highschools.Within coming year 104 clusters of district will have atleast one school so that student can benefit from it. As a process of that core group of teachers at district level is developing digital content based on syllabus and soon there will be online portal of Zilla Parishad Schools to share the resources created by teacher throughout he disrict.

Educator as Innovator and

Change Agent

In environments where

innovative teaching is

challenging, have innovative

teaching practices and ICT

been used in instrumental

ways to change how students

learn. Does the educator

demonstrate evidence of

continuous improvement in

their professional

practice, model lifelong

learning and exhibit

leadership in their school and

professional community by

supporting other educator’s

development and

understanding of the impact

on learning of the effective

use of digital technologies?

Due to the Ipact of the Project Klassmate, various privete schools are also interested in

building their own Interactive classrooms, zilla parishad schools have installed their units at

schools and project is running successfully at these schools, as a results Chief Executive

Officer Mr. Radhakrishnan B. decided to allocate funds to for Zilla Parishad Primary schools

for the implementation of the project.

It is the Klassmate due to which Students enjoy the learning experience. As they enjoy

various activities with this state of the art device.

Various National and Regional newspapers also took published special articles and news

on the features and efforts about the Project Klassmate.