In this webinar, Prabhjot Singh co-founder and CEO of Pixatel Systems and Sidra Rehman, PhD candidate in Economics and Education at Columbia University, will provide an overview of a novel tablet-based learning platform developed by Pixatel, in partnership with USAID Development Innovation Ventures.
The platform runs on inexpensive tablets and provides children with dynamically tailored content suitable to their individual learning level—using daily practice and testing to master each topic before advancing to the next one.
Prabhjot and Sidra will discuss findings from a pilot study over the 2014 school year at rural schools in India. They will also discuss how the project’s success to date has been aided by a strong interdisciplinary team consisting of technologists, educators, and development economists from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Pixatel recently received a follow-on USAID award to conduct a Randomized Control Trial of the intervention at scale. The webinar will delve into the learnings from field implementation that are relevant for scaling similar technology interventions and how the research being conducted will provide a deeper understanding of dynamic complementarities, non-cognitive skills development, and implications of adaptive technology based interventions for researchers and policy makers around the world.
Pixatel Systems is a social enterprise that is reimagining how education should be delivered in rural and urban classrooms using individualized learning to enable all children to achieve their full potential and empowering teachers to personalize instruction.
Prabhjot is a serial social entrepreneur and believes that technology can be harnessed to address many of today’s key development challenges. Sidra Rehman is currently pursuing her PhD in Economic and Education at Columbia University. Previously, she worked at the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO where she conducted research on growth and development issues with a focus on developing countries. Her current research focuses on inequality, growth and education.
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