https://khattamicah.xyz/tags/education/Recent content in Education on khattamicahHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USmicah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://khattamicah.xyz/case-for-a-webinar-pi/Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/case-for-a-webinar-pi/This piece advocates for developing Webinar Pi- a platform built on Raspberry Pi technology designed to foster digital literacy and empowerment among low-literate rural communities, in a similar spirit to the Jingle Tales project that also uses Raspberry Pi for education. The argument centres on why mainstream webinar and video-conferencing tools fail these communities, and what a purpose-built, low-cost, locally maintainable alternative could look like. The proposal draws on Janastu’s years of fieldwork with community networks in rural Karnataka, where we observed first-hand how the gap between available tools and community needs keeps widening.https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/This piece, published on the Janastu Blog, documents a collaborative initiative to empower young women in underserved communities in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, through technology and skill development. It sits alongside the Jingle Tales and Kishori Film Festival projects as part of a broader engagement with digital storytelling in rural India. The article grapples with a persistent tension: while smart devices are increasingly common, the effort required to access, learn, and reconfigure digital tools often outweighs their versatility for communities whose primary modes are oral and visual.https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Published as a “recipe” in the Critical Code Recipes collection, this piece documents a project in Mirzapur, India, where we sent laptops made of Raspberry Pis to young women- devices they could play with, reconfigure, and use to explore their interests. This work ran alongside programmes like the Kishori Film Festival, which used similar devices and approaches to support digital storytelling with the same community. The central challenge was demonstrating the tactility and adaptability of these open devices while competing with the familiarity of phones and laptops.https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/An early piece of writing reflecting on possible changes to the education system to better meet student needs. Written for “Yes, I am Happy”- this was one of my first published reflections on pedagogy, a thread that would grow into a central part of my practice through later work in design education, media literacy, and community-based learning. That thread eventually led to facilitating a design studio at Srishti Manipal Institute, where many of these ideas found concrete form.