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EducateZilla is a tablet assisted self-learning program specially designed to improve the quality of learning in local medium rural government schools.

This Novemeber the EducateZilla program successfully completed 11 years of its operation. Suvidya Foundation could not think of a better way to celebrate this than by distributing 25 new tablets to a few rural government schools in Sira Taluk. It is always exciting to initiate young minds into the joys of technology assisted self-learning!  See gallery

• Suvidya celebrated the 10th anniversary of its EducateZilla program in November 2023. To celebrate this milestone, Suvidya released a short video on its journey thus far. Here is the link.
• The EducateZilla program is presented to the children as a series of short term curricular challenges each with cash awards for the best performers. This keeps the children motivated to engage in self-learning throughout the academic year.

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      Cash award winners November 2024
  

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• In the past eleven years this program has reached 12,000+ children of standards 3-7 from Kannada medium rural government schools across Karnataka. Benefiting from this, many of these children have aced the entrance tests and secured admission in Morarji Desai and Kittur Chennamma residential schools which offer them more challenging and fulfilling learning environments. Many others have confidently transitioned to English medium in high school.
• From 2013-14 to 2019-20, the program was conducted as a year long competition. At the end of each year the best performers were rewarded.

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      End of the year prize distribution

• During the pandemic, Suvidya conducted mobile based challenges to encourage children to learn from home. Additionally, Suvidya mentors conducted tablet assisted self-learning sessions outdoors when possible.

  
      EducateZilla mobile challenge winners (2020-21)

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      Determined children learn outdoors!

• Post pandemic, Suvidya reinvented the program to bring the children's focus back to learning. Instead of the year long challenge, it conducted several short term curricular challenges each with cash awards for the best performers. This has certainly reignited the passion for learning amongst the children in our rural schools.

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      Cash award winners (2023-24)

• Suvidya has empowered many partner NGOs with technology and training to implement the EducateZilla program in the rural schools that they work with.

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      EducateZilla progrm at a tribal school

• For many years now, Suvidya mentors have been effectively using the EzMentor technology every day on the mentor tab given to them. This technology facilitates the day-to-day activities of the mentor in the field such as
  • Getting software and content updates from the Suvidya server and distributing the updates to the tablets in schools
  • Collecting the progress data from the schools and uploading the same to the Suvidya server
  • Adding user accounts to tablets
  • Preparing reports about children's progress, issues in the field and so on.

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• In 2023-24, Suvidya has begun empowering remote rural schools, which are not easily accessible to the mentors, with the EzMentorLite technology. This technology enables one of the teachers to function as the Suvidya mentor for the school using their own mobile. Using this highly simplified, user friendly technology the teacher can
  • Get software and content updates from the Suvidya server and distribute the updates to the tablets in the school.
  • Collect the progress data from the tablets and upload the same to the Suvidya server
  • Add user accounts to tablets
  This technology is sure to bring more remote schools under the EducateZilla umbrella in the future.

Program expansion

Encouraged by the positive outcome of the EducateZilla program so far, Suvidya Foundation plans to extend the program to more schools in the future. It plans to enable at least two new NGOs per year in Karnataka to use this technology and content to benefit children at schools in their region. Further, Suvidya Foundation aims to partner with NGOs in other states to increase the reach of this technology to rural schools pan India.