Opinion | The unexplored potential of learning beyond schooling
At six, in grade 1, my daughter returned from school in a chirpy mood. “I didn’t study anything,” she replied, “but I learnt a lot.” Education in the time of Covid-19 offers a similar and radical opportunity: to let children learn effectively without being burdened by having to study unimaginatively. It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. So, now is also the time to set new normative rules and behaviours around what, how and how much children should go online to learn. During a lockdown, children could learn physics through helping in the kitchen, learn literature through storytelling or more conversations in their own languages, and understand the circular economy through changed consumption patterns in households.
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