Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids
4 years, 1 month ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids

Deccan Chronicle  

As we continue to navigate the multiple uncertainties thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic, there is a heartening finding from the latest Annual Status of Education Report that deserves special attention. Of the lot who didn’t have a smartphone at home, around 13 per cent said their children could access someone else’s smartphone. The latest ASER survey offers insights about the support at home for learning — 74.9 per cent families reported being able to provide some learning support at home to their children. But while lower school fees, support at home and smartphones definitely help, they aren’t going to be enough to compensate for the possibly severe learning loss suffered by many children. Along with strengthening family support in children’s learning, working on more impactful digital content, etc, there needs to be special, targeted incentives for children at risk of dropping out of school in the coming days.

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Can Indian teens’ ease with smartphones be used to help fill in their education gaps? | In Focus podcast
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Can Indian teens’ ease with smartphones be used to help fill in their education gaps? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

This year’s Annual Status of Education Report or ASER, ‘Beyond Basics’, surveyed over 34,000 young people aged between 14 and 18, in 28 districts across the country, to get an inkling into: what are the young people of India currently doing? The results were perhaps not very surprising given that ASER, which is brought out by the NGO Pratham, has …

Teen boys twice as likely to own smartphones than girls in rural India: ASER
11 months, 1 week ago

Teen boys twice as likely to own smartphones than girls in rural India: ASER

Hindustan Times  

Boys in the age group 14-18 years in rural India are more than twice as likely to own smartphones compared to girls, and the latter are less likely to know how to use smartphones than their male counterparts, the latest Annual Status of Education Report survey released on Wednesday said. The ASER 2023 report titled “beyond basics”, led by Pratham …

More students using smartphones for entertainment than study: survey
1 year, 4 months ago

More students using smartphones for entertainment than study: survey

The Hindu  

A pan-India survey of 6,229 parents of schoolchildren, aged 6–16, in rural communities across 21 States revealed more kids used smartphones for entertainment rather than for studying. However, among the parents whose children have access to gadgets, 76.7% stated that their children primarily use mobile phones to play video games. The survey included responses from 6,229 parents, of whom 6,135 …

Assam Education Board Developing App for School Students: Minister
2 years, 4 months ago

Assam Education Board Developing App for School Students: Minister

News 18  

A mobile application was being developed by the Board of Secondary Education in Assam for the benefit of school students, state education minister Ranoj Pegu said. He also said that the education department had been exploring digital education mechanisms in keeping with the growing use of technology in all spheres of life. Speaking at the launch of two mobile phone …

Parents opt for residential schools to wean children off mobile phones, gadgets
2 years, 6 months ago

Parents opt for residential schools to wean children off mobile phones, gadgets

The Hindu  

Many parents, worried over their children’s addiction to mobile phones and television, are preferring faraway residential schools to next-door day schools. Almost all schools, including well-established private ones, in Hassan, have seen parents seeking transfer certificates to admit their children to residential schools in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. The common complaint is that the children don’t listen to their …

76% of Indian Students Faced Learning Losses During Pandemic: UNICEF
3 years, 1 month ago

76% of Indian Students Faced Learning Losses During Pandemic: UNICEF

News 18  

As many as 76 per cent of parents of children between the ages of 5-13 years, and 80 per cent of adolescents between 14-18 years, reported learning less due to extended closure of schools, as per a survey by UNICEF. “With the safe reopening of schools across the country after more than a year, the children’s Charter of Demands focuses …

The disturbing effect of Covid-19 on India’s children
3 years, 2 months ago

The disturbing effect of Covid-19 on India’s children

Hindustan Times  

The number of Covid-19 cases in India has dropped to less than 30,000 per day. Before the pandemic hit, she found herself thinking about whether her children would end up as daily wage workers like herself. A team of eminent economists, Jean Dreze and Ritika Khera, and research scholar Vipul Paikra, while surveying 15 states and Union Territories, found that …

Loans for Smartphones, Trekking Through Jungles: 'Lost Generation' Fears as Covid Locks Out India's Poor Students
3 years, 4 months ago

Loans for Smartphones, Trekking Through Jungles: 'Lost Generation' Fears as Covid Locks Out India's Poor Students

News 18  

CS Satheesha spells out “A-P-P-L-E” into his phone as he teaches remotely from the only place he can get a signal — a treehouse in his back garden in southern India. In the Kodagu district of Karnataka state, eight-year-old Shreeshma listens to Satheesha’s WhatsApp voice notes on her mother’s phone on her porch and repeats sentences such as: “This is …

In a tiny Maharashtra village, a teacher ensures access to virtual lessons
3 years, 11 months ago

In a tiny Maharashtra village, a teacher ensures access to virtual lessons

Live Mint  

Even as primary and middle schools continue to remain shut amid the covid-19 pandemic in Maharashtra, a teacher from a zilla parishad school in a remote village of Jalna district has ensured that his students get access to virtual education. When the pandemic-induced lockdown was announced in March, 2020, online education became a need of the hour, forcing schools and …

ASER 2020: Across states, children got uneven access to remote learning opportunities during pandemic
4 years ago

ASER 2020: Across states, children got uneven access to remote learning opportunities during pandemic

Firstpost  

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and unprecedented school closures, children’s homes have been serving as their sole learning spaces. Seven months into school closures, Pratham conducted its Annual Status of Education Report Wave 1 survey in September this year to understand the nature and extent to which children and families in rural India were able to access and …

Good Samaritan provides smartphones to poor kids for online study
4 years, 3 months ago

Good Samaritan provides smartphones to poor kids for online study

India TV News  

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