Future Learning Design Podcast Enabling Future Ready Youth and Communities Everywhere - A Conversation with Karishma Galani
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Mar 21, 2026 Karishma Galani, Co-Lead of PraDigi Innovation Centre at Pratham International, leads digital innovation and AI for large-scale education. She discusses Pratham’s AI partnership origins and scaling learning programs. Conversation covers personalized learning versus curriculum foundations, assessment design with human-in-the-loop, verification and credentialing of real-world skills, and practical constraints of deploying AI at scale.
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Teaching At The Right Level Boosts Learning Fast
- Pratham scaled foundational learning using a short focused intervention called Teaching at the Right Level that raised outcomes ~40% after 30–40 days.
- The program targets grades 2–5, was validated by six randomized controlled trials from J-PAL/MIT, and underpins Pratham's broader approach to learning.
Madhav Chavan's Longstanding ATM Vision
- Madhav Chavan conceived the ATM (Anytime Testing Machine) vision over a decade ago to flip education by centering student verification rather than content delivery.
- ATM imagines students walking into a booth, getting evaluated on niche expertise (e.g., trains) and receiving verifiable credentials tied to skills.
Keep Educators In Charge Of Pedagogy
- Keep human experts tightly involved when building pedagogical AI; let educators define use cases while engineers build tooling.
- Pratham led pedagogy and Anthropic supported technical work so feedback matched field realities.