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On 19 August, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal released the ‘Students’ Learning Enhancement Guidelines’ for children with limited or no access to digital devices.
The guidelines have been prepared by NCERT. They also cover means by which students with digital devices can enhance learning during the pandemic.
In the guidelines, NCERT suggests solutions such as community mobile banks, providing study materials through postal services or teachers, delivering books to children’s homes, mobile classes, teaching through mobile phones, and so on.
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According to the Ministry of Education, the guidelines have been suggested for students who have no or limited access to digital resources as well as for those who have proper access to digital resources for online education.
According to a survey conducted among 18,188 students, 3,533 teachers, 253 principals, and 12,614 parents linked to the Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalas as well as CBSE schools, one-third of the of respondents said they found online classes “difficult” or “burdensome”.
According to a survey conducted by NCERT, only a handful of respondent states had more than 75 percent of learners with access to television, radio, or the Internet.
NCERT said that most of the states are still mapping access to digital devices and developing continuous learning plans. It found out that over half of the states do not use the DIKSHA application of the central government to monitor students’ progress.
Most of the states have planned baseline assessments to assess learning gaps and remedial classes to bridge them. Many states are still identifying school-going children among migrant labourers.
25 states have prepared school-based continuous learning plans for children, while 27 states have learning plans which include considerations for delivering education to children without access to digital means.
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