Future of School Education Lies in Learning Beyond Classrooms
Schools first shut owing to Covid-19 in March 2020. Almost two years on, just after schools reopened, they are shutting again given the surge in Covid cases due to the…
The National Education Technology Forum can provide synergy, strategy and solutions to the EdTech ecosystem in India
The Covid-19 pandemic witnessed significant growth in technology-based learning, as brick and mortar classrooms shuttered and governments, schools and students adopted EdTech solutions instead. Even with physical classes gradually resuming,…
Demystifying the Science of Making High Quality Assessment Questions
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down an important goal: improve learning outcomes; shift from rote-based learning to conceptual understanding and application of knowledge. It advocates for competency-based assessments…
Cross-learnings from ‘health for all’ to achieve ‘learning for all’
Education and health are central to developing human capital and driving economic growth. Since independence, the Indian government has invested in building public health facilities (more than 200,000) and public…
As Schools Reopen, Teach Less but Teach Well
Re-visiting the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of educating children during and after the pandemic Children in our country are not learning. The National Education Policy 2020 states that even before the…
Remediation and Blended Learning: How Uttar Pradesh is Reopening Schools
As the new academic year begins after a year of school closures, we look at how Uttar Pradesh has resumed in-person classes. CSF interviewed Vijay Kiran Anand, the first Director-General…
Increased Parental Involvement Improves the Child’s Learning and Development
“Parental involvement, in almost any form, produces measurable gains in student achievement.”- Armendia Dixon Research and evidence highlight that parental involvement in children’s schooling and learning results in higher academic…
Learnings from Global Innovations in EdTech
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures impacted about 320 million children in India. However, the crisis proved to be an opportunity for EdTech which made headlines for enabling at-home…
The Untapped Potential of Digital Classrooms: A Perspective from the Low-income EdTech Space
Kesarbai Kulkarni of Aurangabad district is not educated, but she left no stone unturned to ensure that her grandson Samyak receives education. When schools shuttered in India to contain the…
Navigating Education in 2021: From Remote Learning to Blended Learning
The rise of remote learning The school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 1.2 billion children out of brick-and-mortar classrooms across the globe. Governments, and non-government and…