Presentation given by Mr. Manish Upadhyay, COO, EnglishEdge on July 14,2011 at WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT (www.worldeducationsummit.net) in the School Education Track: LOCALISED LEARNING IN A GLOBALISED CONTExT: CAPACITy BUILDING, CONTENT AND TRAINING OF TRAINERS

1. School Localized learning in global context – Capacity building, Train the trainers & Content Presented by – Manish Upadhyay COO, English Edge

3. Defining School Student Parents Classroom School (or School System) Community (Home for this group of students) The world at large (beyond the community) School Board Principal Administrative & Support Staff Teacher Other teachers (and unions) Other students, friends

6. Content Transmission Generative Critical (Transformative) Monologue – Tell Process of inquiry, exploration & Discovery Traditional Content Content & Process to actively engage From Classroom into the world Think critically about the world – Self & Social transformation Created by experts Structure created by experts - Content User generated Ex. Language Subtitling Structure created by experts - Content User & Community generated Ex. Community Radio, Farmville type

7. Thanks

8. Annexure

10. English Edge Portable Language Lab .. Devices move around to the place of learning . .. Fixed computers can’t be used outside the lab

12. “ English is Fun”, Bihar For half an hour, four days a week - 122-episode English learning programme. Seven million students attending 65,000 primary schools in all the 38 districts of the state. The state government has given 1,000 rupees ($25) to every primary school to purchase a radio set.

13. Language Subtitling Movie based pilot based on SLS and custom methodologies - to help the learners acquire basic English vocabulary Helping children from disadvantaged background to pickup elementary English language speaking skills.

14. Farmville

15. Augmented Learning

16. Thanks