IEEE R10 EA LOCAL INITIATIVE PROGRAM
Focusing tools, free online facilities for educational facilitation

A 2-Day workshop was organized by IEEE educational activities, Karachi section in collaboration and with IEEE Computer Society (Karachi section. The workshop was organized by Dr. M. Sadiq Ali Khan Chair IEEE Educational Activities, Karachi Section, coordinated and conducted by the key resource persons: Muhammad Taha Hassan (Member IEEE Education Society) and Muhammad Hammad Hassan (Member IEEE Computer Society).
The objective of this workshop was to bring about awareness in students and teachers alike about tools and free online facilities available for educational facilitation. Various areas of Karachi are underdeveloped currently and books and physical resources are becoming increasingly expensive, making it difficult to sustain education in underprivileged schools.
Approximately 70 participants were present, 60 of which were teachers of Primary and secondary level students, and the rest were their teachers who attended. The tools and sites discussed were easily accessible and crucial in this day and age, such as Google, Gmail, Web browsers, GetEpic, Blooket, Khan Academy, TEDEd, and many more. With overwhelmingly positive feedback from the students, teachers, and the School principal alike, the objective of this workshop to inspire motivation and bring about awareness of digitally accessible tools was deemed complete as it came to a close on 20th August 2022.
During the event, the school was visited by the esteemed Dr. Muhammad Aamir Chair IEEE Communication Society, Karachi section, and Professor at SSUET, Karachi, who motivated and congratulated the school staff and resource persons involved in making the event a success. His recognition of everyone’s efforts boosted the morale of the participants as well as the volunteers and workers involved. The school’s principal, Mrs. Fouzia Saad also addressed the staff and her students, her kind gestures, valuable insights, and welcoming hospitality were well-received. Everyone was inspired to look up to a role model like her. With Dr. M. Sadiq Ali khan’s elevating address and certificate distributions, the workshop came to an end, and the participants learned a lot that they could use to improve their quality of education.
Program goals:
To improve the standard of education that the schools in underdeveloped areas are providing
by training the teachers and equipping them with more knowledge to handle the classroom better.
To provide the students of such schools with a drive for utilizing the internet efficiently,
pushing them one step closer to becoming life-long learners.
To give awareness to school owners and discuss with them the ways their school can become
more internet-dependent while not imposing too many internet requirements on the students.
To serve the community in such underdeveloped areas by providing them with an alternative to the expensive learning materials they require for better education, that they can access easily from their mobile phones.
To improve, as a whole, Karachi’s educational standard by introducing IEEE Education
activities as a learning platform to many schools that may not be aware of it yet.n