QR codes for better learning: Sangli teacher bags innovation award

Each code would redirect students to additional information about a particular mathematical problem

Forty-one-year-old Ajay Kale, a teacher at the Dahiwadi Zilla Parishad School in Sangli who developed and used QR codes as learning aids, recently won this year’s award for innovative teaching given by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT).

Ajay Kale eveloped QR codes for a Class-6 mathematics textbook last year and placed them at appropriate pages, allowing students to access videos on the subject through phones and other devices. (HT)

Kale, over the last few years, has worked with QR codes to supplement learning content in textbooks. As part of his pilot project, he developed these codes for a Class-6 mathematics textbook last year and placed them at appropriate pages, allowing students to access videos on the subject through phones and other devices.

Each code would redirect students to additional information about a particular mathematical problem. Scanning the code would redirect them to in-depth explainer videos made by Kale himself. “Many students do not understand certain concepts and mathematical problems in one go. Such students can revisit what is taught in class by simply scanning the code and watching the videos,” Kale said.

In 2017, the state education department used QR codes in Balbharti textbooks. The NCERT too, said that it would add the feature to its textbooks from 2019 to make them more student-friendly.

Kale has to submit his complete project to NCERT by March 2019. He said he hopes to develop codes for all textbooks in the near future.