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Digital divide still a challenge in remote teaching, learning: Experts
Over one-and-a-half years since the Covid pandemic broke out in India, the digital divide continues to pose challenges in remote teaching and learning, according to experts. Teaching and learning activities had to move online when the pandemic forced the closure of schools and colleges. While technology ensured that learning is not completely suspended, the digital divide continues to make remote learning an "operational nightmare". A study by the Azim Premji Foundation showed that almost 60 per cent of school children in India cannot access online learning opportunities. A similar study by Oxfam India found that even among students of urban private schools, half of the parents reported issues with Internet signal and speed. A third struggled with the cost of mobile data. Only 20 per cent of school-age children in India had access to remote education during the pandemic, of whom only half participated in live online lessons, according to a new national sample survey by ICRIER and .
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Charaiveti: An academic's journey-3
'In general, in popular culture all around me canniness was implicitly or explicitly highly valued', says the author
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'Cognitive flexibility': The skill IQ tests miss about your talent
It is essentially about learning to learn and being able to be flexible about the way you learn.
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Covid helps reinvent roles for Avanti Learning Centres, discover true path
The pandemic experience has been transformational for Avanti. Avanti Fellows, the not-for-profit, now runs programmes in over 300 government schools
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Meet the doting dad whose educational toys teach tiny tots in 15 countries
PlayShifu CEO Vivek Goyal used his years at Stanford and Silicon Valley, and a stint at eBay to start an enterprise designing phygital educational toys for children in the 3-10 age group
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Story in numbers: A learning crisis for children in the early grades
Even those who are not education experts or researchers can tell you that after five years of schooling, only half the children in India can read at Standard II level
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Learning is the name of the game
Gamification is helping companies transform and enrich the learning experience of employees
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