What online education when 56 per cent of children have no access to smartphones and internet?
Around 56 percent of Children were found to have no access
to smartphones which have risen as fundamental devices for web based learning
or online education during the coronavirus prompted lockdown, as indicated by a
research that overviewed 42,831 students at different school levels.
The case study 'Situation in the midst of COVID 19 – On ground
Situations and Possible Solutions' was led by CHILD rights NGO Smile Foundation
with a goal to find out how may students in india have access to smartphones
and internet and how they can participate in online education system.
The discoveries of the case study demonstrated that 43.99
percent of studying Children approach smartphones and another 43.99 percent of them
approach fundamental cell phones while 12.02 percent don't approach either smartphones
or essential cell phones.
An aggregate of 56.01 percent kids were found to have no access
to smartphones, the case study elaborated.
"Concerning TV, it was noticed that while 68.99 percent student approach TV, a significant piece of 31.01 percent doesn't. Thus proposing that
utilizing cell phone intercessions for improving learning results isn't the
main arrangement," case study elaborated.
At the primary section of education (class 1 to 5) 19,576 Children were reviewed
while at upper middle education level (class 6 to 8) 12,277 kids were
overviewed. At high school education level (class 9 to 10) 5,537 Children were overviewed
and at higher secondary education level
(class 11 to 12) 3,216 kids were reviewed.
The case study on education led utilization of two methodologies -first, via phone where in
the case study members connected with the kids whose database they previously had —and second was through community
mobilization wherein case study members went on grass-root level to find the data.
The case study on education was conducted in 23 states,
including Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal,
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, over a time of 12 days from
April 16 to April 28.
The lockdown initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic in March insisted
schools and universities to move to the virtual world for educating and
learning exercises. However, many education experts say the digital divide in
the country may turn online classes into an educational discrepancy.Recently we got news that some children committed suicide because they were not able to participate in online classes because they or their parents didn't have smartphones.
According to official data , there are over 35 crore
students in the country and it isn't clear with respect to what number of
students have access to smartphone and internet.
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