The teacher who transformed girls education with QR coded textbooks

*This episode includes audio of a video shown during this event, some of which is not in English. You can access captions and subtitles with this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGTiB11qNA

Ranjitsinh Disale has been bridging barriers for girls' education in rural India by innovating with QR coded textbooks. School attendance can be as low as 2% for girls in some parts of rural India, and those who are in school are prevented from learning as the curriculum is not in their primary language.  Ranjitsinh translated class textbooks into his pupils’ mother tongue and embedded them with the unique QR codes to give students access to audio poems, video lectures, stories, and assignments.

Ranjitsinh joined Professor Sue Rogers to chat about his innovations, and to answer questions from our education community.

The 2020 Global Teacher Prize lecture was recorded by the UCL Institute of Education on 27 January 2021. More information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2021/jan/virtual-event-afternoon-ranjitsinh-disale-2020-global-teacher-prize-winner

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