Online classes | Centre’s norms limit classroom screen time
15th July, 2020
Pragyata Guidelines for Digital Education:
Can hold live online classes for a maximum of 1.5 hours per day for Classes 1-8.
For kinder garden, nursery and pre-school, only 30 minutes of screen time per day for interacting with parents.
Three hours per day for Classes 9-12
Advice schools to first survey their own students before making decisions about the mode of teaching.
Children exposed to digital technologies or gadgets for a longer time are prone to severe health issues
“Asynchronous learning” with tools to allow students to download lessons.
Listen to radio and TV programmes
Communicate through Whatsapp and SMS
Study on their own and undertake creative projects.
Survey Required:
To assess the available digital infrastructure.
Availability of the digital devices as multiple children at home may access the digital medium through single device.
Objective should be to ensure that no child is left behind.
About the guidelines:
Released by Ministry of Human Resources
Prepared by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
Advisory in nature.
State government can form their own rules as per local requirement.
Digital based education programme by Government:
Swayam:
An integrated platform for offering online courses and covering school (9th to 12th) to Post Graduate Level.
NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) has been developing course modules for MOOCs for school education system in 12 subject areas.
Swayam Prabha:
SWAYAM Prabha is an initiative to provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH.
Curriculum-based course content covering diverse disciplines.
National Digital Library:
Project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.
There are more than three crores digital resources available through the NDL.
Spoken Tutorial:
10-minute long, audio-video tutorial, on open source software, to improve employment potential of students.
The languages are C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, PERL, Scilab, OpenFOAM, OpenModelica, DWSIM, LibreO and many more.
E-Yantra:
Project for enabling effective education across engineering colleges in India on embedded systems and Robotics.
The training for teachers and students is imparted through workshops where participants are taught basics of embedded systems and programming.