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Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. Established in 1995 to provide education to children in the slums of Mumbai, Pratham has grown in both scope and scale, with programs today reaching children and youth across the country.

As one of the largest non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham focuses on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the education system. Working directly with children and youth as well as through large-scale collaborations with government systems, Pratham programs reach millions of lives every year.

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The Hybrid learning program involves getting children in the age group 10-14 in a village to form their own groups of 5-6 each, thus enabling them to co-create learning space within their community. Digital devices and content placed directly in the hands of children providing them with opportunities and choices to learn on their own. Community based children's groups engage in choice-based learning and are guided by the coaches and youth members in the communities. The communities are organized to facilitate and support the learning activities and assessments.

The program aims to create an open learning mechanism enabling children and youth to prepare for school, work, and life. The program has been designed on the premise that children can be motivated to learn on their own. Children learn on tablets and do projects or conduct activities (e.g. role plays, playing games)and then present what they have learned either in front of a live audience of parents or on a video.

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Pratham believes that it takes a village and technology to educate a child. Therefore, Pratham has identified three pillars for the implementation of the H Learning program - Social Structure, Digital Infrastructure and Teaching Learning Methodology.

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Pratham works with the village/urban community to create an environment of learning for children. This is done by interacting with different stakeholders of the community, raising awareness on the education scenario in their community and creating ownership amongst them for the learning interventions.

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The technology aspect of the project involves providing the community access to different digital devices to enhance creation of open learning spaces. This is implemented to motivate the volunteers to facilitate the children's groups while ensuring the continuation of their own education and learning.

LEARNING CONTENT

Pratham strives to make content engaging and interesting for learners. It works across three domains of learning - preparation for school, work and life. With the focus on creating contextualized content, the program curates videos and games into interesting packages - "courses". Making learning a choice- driven process. Task based games are being introduced to enable computational thinking among learners.

Building on the know-how, success and reach of our education programs, the digital content endeavours to be an additional input in the overall development of children. Additionally, Pratham collaborates with numerous NGO Partners and platforms, to curate, develop and co-create learning resources for the non-traditional curriculum.

• What do you think are the core competencies of PraDigi? Pick at most two distinct core competencies. Try to pick core competencies that are specific to PraDigi and not general to Pratham.