Students under the current education system are being trained to give answers, not ask questions. Despite having completed years of schooling they struggle to apply their learning in real-world situations. Children need to be exposed to varied and engaging learning content, challenged by new projects and given opportunities to engage with hands-on learning to prepare them for school, work and life
PraDigi Creativity Club is an effort to engage children in rural communities through shared devices, contextualized content and exciting group projects. Children choose projects to work on covering a range of domains including music, science, community connect and computational thinking. In each case, children work in groups, utilize the digital resources, reach out to community members to participate actively in their project. All of these activities enrich the “learning to learn” process of individuals and the group, as the students learn to be creative with ideas, collaborative in planning, and learn to effectively communicate their solutions by leveraging tools of digital storytelling, coding, and presentation. Furthermore, these experiments also highlight the role of the community in technology-enabled self-organized learning environment.
Our internal monitoring indicates that over 50% students complete all steps of a given activity, despite it being entirely voluntary.
Over the past 5 years, PraDigi has grown to reach over 700000 learners directly and through partnerships. Pratham has been able to compile 4500+ videos from students across India and is in the process of studying, researching, and archiving the content for a wider audience.
In 2020, when children couldn’t go to school and communities were distressed, we used low-tech mediums such as SMS, WhatsApp, TV and Radio to keep them engaged and creatively involved through activities they could do at home with their families. We launched the PraDigi Creativity Club, that encouraged children to create paintings out of leaves, science model out of sticks and music with utensils in the kitchen. The content is shared with 10000 communities, governments, partners and schools in 12 languages across India
PraDigi Creativity Club is easily replicable in low-tech communities across the world. In order to adopt it to a new context, one must work with the community stakeholders to create a digital environment that enables social-emotional, contextualised and practical learning. You can also download the PraDigi for Life App or join our Club! Contact us at digital@pratham.org and we can help you!
