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One of the goals of education is to create responsible citizens who can adequately understand the problems faced by their societies and who can then act to help solve them. Such behaviour can be fostered through proper education that facilitates expert knowledge about social issues, nurtures the ability to think critically and grows the skills needed to pro-actively search for possible solutions. Through this study, we aimed to develop an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) supported pedagogical framework Children as Agents of Social Change (CASC) as a possible vehicle to facilitate proper education about social issues. This article analyses the first implementation of the CASC framework carried out at schools in Tanzania. Forest fires in Tanzania are often caused by human activity and education about this pressing problem needs to be provisioned on a large scale. However, due to a lack of …