Super On Wed, May 29, 2019, 6:37 PM IT for Change - Education < itfc.educat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ICT as a tool for domination/ control .... v/s a tool for emancipation > .... By using ICT to create a surveillance society, education system > impairs teacher and learner agency > <https://itforchange.net/it-for-change-at-comparative-education-society-of-india-cesi-conference-2015>, > critical to the processes and aims of education .... > > regards, > Guru > > Source - > https://indianexpress.com/article/education/gujarat-govt-sets-up-call-centre-with-realtime-tech-to-keep-an-eye-on-its-school-teachers-5739430/ > > Gujarat govt sets up call centre with real time tech to keep an eye on its > school teachers > The control room functioning on a pilot basis in Gandhinagar. > > This is one phone call that government school teachers across Gujarat > cannot afford to miss. And once they answer, the voice at the other end > will ask them a series of questions from a template about the location of > their assignment for the day, the task, and who assigned it. If they are on > leave, they will have to provide details, including the number of days and > the approval authority. > > > This, in short, is the state government’s new “realtime technology > enabled” surveillance plan to “keep an eye” on over 1.95 lakh school > teachers after the new academic session starts on June 10. The aim is to > improve the quality of education by ensuring that teachers stick to their > assigned tasks on a daily basis. Officials say the system was devised after > various discussions and reports concluded that poor monitoring of teachers > resulted in absenteeism and “non-seriousness”. > > It’s not just the teachers, though.* Even those who monitor them will be > handed GPS-enabled tablets and tracked through geo-fencing by which an > alert will be triggered when a mobile device enters or leaves a specified > area.* > > The entire operation, officials say, will be run from a tech-equipped > “command and control centre”, which is being set up in Gandhinagar. The > centre will initially be staffed by 50 dedicated members, hired in equal > numbers from the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the office of the > Director, Primary Education (DPE). It will include a call centre to be run > under Vinod Rao, Principal Secretary, Education. > > > Speaking to The Indian Express, Rao said: “We do not want to follow the > carrot and stick policy for teachers but instil a feeling among them that > their work is being monitored on a realtime basis and there is no escape > from it.” > > The Indian Express visited a pilot control centre and found about 30 staff > members equipped with headphones in front of computers, typing out > responses from teachers on Google forms. The data is fed into Excel sheets > to record responses for each day. Staff at the centre say they make about > 500 calls a day but expect that number to reach 1,250 once the centre > officially begins operations. > > Officials say the call centre feedback would be verified with online data > collected by other means at different hours of the day to keep track of > teachers, principals, and cluster and block resource centre coordinators. > “Our online attendance system has already made teachers realise that they > are being monitored in real time,” said Rao. > > The control centre will be monitored on a daily basis by the heads of > department under the Education Department, Director Primary Education, > Director SSA, Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training, Gujarat > Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board and Schools Commissioner. At > least one of them will have to visit the centre every day to take stock of > the data analysed. > > Officials say each caller would ask about 10 questions, on an average, > from a set that has been “strategically framed jointly by a team of experts > under SSA’s quality enhancement cell and approved by the SSA officials”. > The questions will change on a regular basis, depending upon the activity > or projects being carried out in a school. > > The call centre system is also being seen as a solution to instances of > “cheating” by some teachers. “Earlier, a government school teacher or > co-ordinator would not answer a phone call from their superiors. Instead, > they would call back after collating information expected from them or > after reaching the school they were supposed to be in. We could not > question them because of a government resolution that does not allow > teachers to use mobile phones in class,” an Education Department official > said. > > According to a senior government official, teachers would be exempted from > this mandatory clause to answer the feedback call. Currently, the pilot > control centre uses different phone numbers on the Closed User Group (CUG) > of a private telecom service provider to collect data from teachers. > Officials say this will soon be replaced by one number, which will be > circulated among all schools and to which calls cannot be returned. > > According to Rao, the new tracking system will have “a positive impact on > the teaching fraternity”. “We will also ask them about the innovations or > new teaching methods they have adopted or want to use but could not, and > the reasons… or attempts made by them to achieve desired targets, and the > activities they would adopt in future. All these questions will make them > realise that they are being heard and that their efforts are taken note of > and recorded by the department,” he said. > > > Guru > Education Team > IT for Change > Bangalore > www.ITforChange.net > 080 26654134 > > -- > ----------- > 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ. > - > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform > 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ. > - > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ > 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ > ನೀಡಿ - > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy > 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ > ತಿಳಿಯಲು - > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software > ----------- > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KannadaSTF - ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷಾ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆ" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to kannadastf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to kannadastf@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kannadastf/CA%2BZ52kY_%3DAsCN_D7wfw3eqN%2BNmM8S%3DNM9muHcsv%2BnEUi7gx98A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kannadastf/CA%2BZ52kY_%3DAsCN_D7wfw3eqN%2BNmM8S%3DNM9muHcsv%2BnEUi7gx98A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ----------- 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ. -https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ. -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software ----------- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KannadaSTF - ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷಾ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆ" group. 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