A three-year-old girl looked very excited when he told her to go to school in a few more months. This is the word of december 2019.
But by the time her classes started, she had imposed a strict lockdown in india as part of corona control measures.
Although the lockdown was lifted a few months later, schools across the country have not reopened. Although some states have been pushing to open educational institutions for the past two years, at exactly the same time, their efforts are being watered down with the coronavirus outbreak boom.
A little girl is now five years old. She has been listening to lessons in Zoom for the past 600 days and now thinks of it as a school. She is also one of the 4 crores, 20 lakh indian children affected by the corona closure of schools at the pre-primary level.
She thinks that school friends are the ones who appear in the little boxes in the Zoom app. Children's distance from school has significantly affected their learning outcomes.
He said that if students in small classes are not provided with adequate education at their level ... it will have a severe impact on their learning in the long run.
Online classes have had a profound effect on millions of children who do not have laptops, mobile phones, or proper internet access.
The survey of 1,400 children found that almost half of the students could not read beyond a few words.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government seemed to recognize this problem in the education system. But the solution shown by the Modi government to this problem during the annual budget in parliament recently has caused dissatisfaction among experts.
How can children watch these tv channels in areas where electricity is limited? How to profit from them remains questionable.
Attending online classes is an easy task for students with slightly better facilities. But students in zoom classes are unable to read attentively.
Many students stopped turning on cameras during online classes. This is evidence that they are not interested in the online education system and that students are not paying attention to this system.
Online teaching, she said, has also brought difficulties for teachers. teachers know that children are not listening intently to the lesson because of their movements and gaze. They often have to be warned to 'look at the screen.
We expect our children to listen to lessons in the classroom and develop social skills and friendships. They are not getting these because of online classes.
Parents have also struggled with the stress of having children pay attention to online classes and read aloud to them. When parents are stressed, the impact is sure to be on the children.
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