Education, design research
Digi-Stories
A system to build confidence in rural children by stimulating their imagination and exploration through the medium of storytelling.
Location:
Manjari Farm Village, Pune
Target Class: Grade 5 - Grade 7
Low income group
No proper school infrastructure
Primary Research
Students | Parents | Teachers | State board | NGOS
“I want a school where there are no lengthy chapters but study is fun”
“I want to make my mother happy and help her in any way”
Research Insights
Students
Bored of books
Excellent capacity to grasp
Low Confidence
Parents
They aren’t aware enough to know what is right for their children.
They send them to school thinking their problems will get solved, but that doesn’t happen
NGOs
They assist rural children in pursuing their education but they are unable to make much progress in building the confidence level of the young minds
Reasons for low confidence
Can communicate in only one language
Very less exposure, never met people from different fields
Intimidated first time when they enter in an urban scenario
Inter-culture interaction is missing
Financial difference
Parents are not educated
Superstition and caste system is also a restriction
Teachers don’t work on building confidence of the students.
Teacher’s grooming is not enough to impart proper knowledge.
School infrastructure is poor.
Constraints
Medium
Games and Puzzles | Books and Puzzles | Storytelling | Human Interaction | Facts and Flash cards | Activities and Picnic
Something that they can relate to
Something that is in the school environment
Should not need an electricity back up
Cannot be extremely digital (not a very big jump in technology)
Not too bookish because that makes them bored.
Something which they can operate themselves
A remote like interface can work (they are used to watching TV)
Should be inspired from their surroundings.
Which they enjoy and have an element of play in it.
Can be used when teachers are occupied in their work
Which can evoke some discussion and not create fights using it
Something which they be eager to use with every new lesson
An unconventional way of learning something new
Story
Content Delivery
Insights
Based on primary research
Children
Books cannot be percieved as fun
The medium could be in between books and tablet
Teachers
Audio visual could be a nice way to teach them something
Based on secondary research
NGOs
Books, teachers, guides are a must and most affordable for a rural set up
Changing the definition of books
Making it a set up for a group of children as children understand better in groups
A projector is chosen as an audio visual unit
Concept
A projector on top of a table (like a book lamp on a table) that projects on a empty book lying on a cardboard table. This also has a sound system.
The projection is done on a BLANK BOOK which has 4 stages
