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ALIF AILAAN UPDATE April 2014 April at Alif Ailaan ALIF AILAAN UPDATE April 2014 April at Alif Ailaan • Supporting provincial enrolment campaigns • #DisruptEd - Ideas and Conversations for Innovation in Education • Presenting the Meesaq-e-Ilm (the Teachers’ Charter for Knowledge) to the Punjab Chief Minister • Politicians as problem solvers in education • The role of religious scholars in Pakistan’s education discourse ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Supporting provincial enrolment campaigns On April 1 Alif Ailaan education activists teamed up with volunteers and local district government officials to run a month-long enrolment campaign across all four provinces and in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. We reached 60 districts in Pakistan and mobilised parents, village elders and tribal leaders. Special emphasis was placed on the importance of educating girls. ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Azad Jammu and Kashmir The AJK government’s enrolment campaign was launched in Muzaffarabad by Mian Abdul Waheed Khan, Education Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. AJK Education Minister Mian Abdul Waheed Khan at the launch of the enrolment campaign Education activists in Mirpur Seventy children were personally conducted a door-to-door awareness enrolled by Mian Abdul Waheed campaign urging parents and Khan in Khoi Ratta School during community leaders to send their district Kotli’s enrolment activities children to school, reaching 200 people ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Balochistan Education activists in Balochistan conducted rallies and set up enrolment camps. Rally with school children in Quetta Enrolment camp in tehsil Duki of Loralai Every child in school: A rally for education in Loralai ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education activists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formed enrolment teams with volunteers and teachers' union representatives. Alif Ailaan education activist and the Muttahida Mahaz-e-Asataza, an influential teachers' union in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, held a conference in the tribal region of Toarghar where elders and clerics emphasised the importance girls’ education in Islam Enrolment team in Bannu Community sessions were held for mothers in two localities of Haripur, Khalabat Township (left) and Village Kakotari (right) Orientation meeting in Bannu ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Punjab Rally in Jhelum to enrol every out-of- Rally organised by the DCO Community session in Adhi Kot Community session in school child was organised, with 400 of Khushab village Union Council Bola participants The campaign was launched with rallies for enrolment culminating at schools and education departments. Children were enrolled in the presence of district coordination officers (DCOs) and executive district officers (EDOs) for education. In Multan our education activist introduced a cartoon character to motivate children to go to school (above). Singer and activist Jawad Ahmad also partnered with Alif Ailaan to enrol children in schools (below) Our education activists in Dera Ghazi Khan formed teams in health centres. The teams supervised by doctors, met MPAs, teachers' union representatives, district education department officials and religious scholars. ENROLMENT CAMPAIGN Sindh Our activists used by-election platforms to campaign for education along with rallies and community sessions. Karachi: A rally for enrolment Larkana: ‘Vote for Education’ banners were displayed during the PS-35 by- elections. Jamshoro: Rallies were organised in Jamshoro city (left) and Kotri city (centre) along with multiple village level sessions including in Unarpur (right) #DisruptEd Ideas and Conversations for Innovation in Education #DisruptEd attracted almost 2,000 participants On April 16 Alif Ailaan hosted #DisruptEd. Through this forum we aimed to apply solutions-focused thinking in the public, private and non-profit sectors to the problems Over 700 participants logged confounding the provision of universal and quality education. into our live-stream from remote locations More than 50 speakers and panellists championed education #DisruptEd Disruptive Innovation in Pakistan’s Education Disruptive Innovation instigates a fundamental shift in ways of thinking and doing business. It is innovation that transforms an existing market or sector by introducing simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability where complication and high cost are the status quo. Three key ‘spaces’ #DisruptEd sought to Featuring: disrupt: • Workshop with Oscar- • The management and supply of winning filmmaker education Sharmeen Obaid • The delivery of education (teaching Chinoy quality, learning outcomes and modes of delivery, including digital learning) • Session on Big Data • The way we talk about education with Ali Hashmi of the MIT Media Lab • Closing address by Federal Minister of Planning, Development and Reform, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal and Country Head, UNDP, Marc-Andre Franche Clockwise top left: Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Marc-Andre Franche, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Ali Hashmi #DisruptEd Sessions: • Disruptive Innovation in the Public Sector: The Quest for Better, Faster, Cheaper Conversations to #DisruptEd • E-Learning in Pakistan: Non-Starter or Firestarter? • The 3G/4G Mirage of Content: Are We On The EDGE of a revolution? • Telling the Innovation Story: Why Doing is Not Enough • Public-Private Partnerships: The Real Deal or a Mirage? • Teaching for Pakistan in 2050: New Methods, New Modalities, But Same Old Results? • Data and Discourse: Applying Big Data to Education • Reality-Checking Reform Ambition: Can Teachers Be Disruptors? • Why Education Is Still Not a Prime Time Issue • High-Performance Students: An ‘A’ Grade Race to the Top (or Bottom)? • Tomorrow Never Dies: The Future of Disruptive Innovation in Pakistan #DisruptEd The Disruptors Top L to R: Moeed Pirzada (Express News), Rana Jawwad (Geo News), Wajahat S. Khan (Geo News), Zainab Siddiqui (Telenor), Asim Fayaz (TPI), Rafique Tahir (CADD) Centre:: Akmal Minallah (SNG), Ali Moeen Nawazish, Umar Nadeem (World Bank), Athar Osama (Pakistan Innovation Foundation), Asad Karim (TeleTaleem) Bottom: Iqbal Khan (Sabaq Foundation), Rabia Garib (Toffee TV), Ahmad Ali (I-SAPS), Mehnaz Aziz (CGN) #DisruptEd The Disruptors Top L to R: Umair Aziz (Creative Chaos), Kashif Farooq (E-Learn Punjab), Furqan Qureshi (PTCL), Asad Umar (MNA), Yahya Faruqi (Jugnu TV), Sobia Samad (Ufone), Centre: Talea Zafar (ToffeeTV), Yasser Bashir (Arbisoft), Badar Khushnood (Google), Faisal Bari (IDEAS), Ahsan Saleem (TCF), Zia Imran (Jugnoo Media), Bottom: Muhammad Mustafa Syed (3Restart), Zeeshan Suhail (Nestle), Azra Naseem (AKUH/IED), Bernadette Dean (VM Teacher Institute), Naveed Siraj (Intel), Sheikh Ejaz (MPA) #DisruptEd Activities to #DisruptEd Clockwise from top left: Prof. Ahsan Iqbal on the ThrustFactor Simulator, stalls for partners and sponsors, ‘Making Learning Fun’ with Jugnu TV, storytelling with Toffee TV, children during the Pakistan Innovation Fund Marshmallow Challenge #DisruptEd Audience and Participants Clockwise from top left: Students (Islamabad Model School), Maliha Khan (MPA), audience (Gallery), Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan (Former Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir), audience (Main Auditorium), Tanveer Aslam Malik (Minister Housing and Urban Development), Marvi Memon (MNA), Gulnaz Shahzadi (MPA) #DisruptEd Disruptive Thoughts Our panellists wrote research papers Research papers: that were distributed to the participants • Narrative of Education In Pakistan: A at DisruptEd along with fact sheets Discourse-Based Approach - By Ali and a specially commissioned report Hashmi, MIT Media Lab/Center for Civic Media by Charles Leadbeater. • Disruptive Innovation in the Public Sector: Could it be Pakistan’s Killer App for Education - By Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development, and Reform • Deliberate Disruption: Informing the Course of Disruptive Innovation in the Age of Evidence - By Marc-Andre Franche, Country Director, UNDP • The Day After 3G – Education on Steroids or Bridge to Nowhere? - By Athar Osama, Founder Pakistan Innovation Foundation • Rethinking Education: Our Schooling System is Geared Up For a Massive Disruption - By M. Ashraf Iqbal, Syed Mustafa Hassan, Faheem Orakzai, Centre of Innovative Technologies in Education, SEECS-NUST, Islamabad • Revolution or Bust: How far can e- Learning go in Pakistan’s Quest for Literacy? - By Athar Osama, Founder Pakistan Innovation Foundation • Disruptive Innovation in Education – A Primer - By Athar Osama, Founder Pakistan Innovation Foundation • A National Effort to Support Local Content Could Boost Literacy - By Zia Imran, Co-Founder Jugnoo Media (Pvt.) Ltd #DisruptEd #DisruptEd in Social Media On April 22 Alif Ailaan reached 500,000 fans on Facebook April 14 -17 Facebook Lifetime Likes 494,109 Increase in Likes 7,452 Top posts Engaged Users 18,182 Twitter April 14 -17 Tweets 100 The #DisruptEd Following 1093 hashtag trended on Followers 5180 Website April 16 twitter for 11 hours • 70.86% new visits and 15 minutes on Re-Tweets 159 • 2,382 unique page April 16 views Mentions 127 • Average time on Favorite 139 website: 3+ min Increase in followers 130 #DisruptEd DisruptEd in the Media #DisruptEd received 44 media mentions across all major newspapers including The Nation, Daily Times, Business Recorder, Daily Express, Daily Khabrain, Daily Ausaf, Awaaz, Nawa-i-waqt, Jahan Pakistan, Jur’at, Din, The Daily Pakistan. The session on High-Performance Students: An ‘A’ Grade Race to the Top (or Bottom)? was hosted by Capital View anchor Farrukh Pitafi and aired on PTV World the on April 20, 2014 Media highlights Op-eds Education Innovation by Dr Adil Najam, April 12, The News
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