“Digital education is breaking the numerous barriers that are
preventing studens in rural india from receiving quality educaton in the
physically bound classrooms. By not having to be at a certain class at a
certain time, it will assist working students to not limit their work schedule,
helping them to not lose on wages that they can potentially earn.”
-Aditya Malik, CEO & MD TALENTEDGE
The power of technology can never be denied. With the
population of 1.324 billion people in a country, the ratio to technology driven
citizens has highly increased in last decade. With approx 140 million mobile
phone users and being a country for the second most social site users, India
has an immense opportunity to grow in this field and to grasp the positive
vibes of technology in the field of education, medicine, defense, business and
much more.
With huge possibility in digital technology, our prime
minister introduced initiatives like Digital India to transform India into a
digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital India is a concept
to revitalize the education system in India. It is a program that endeavors to
bridge the literacy slippage by delivering education through digital platform
to children and teachers. It provides an opportunity to access learning sources
through a global platform, providing reach ability to teachers and breaking the
barriers to gain quality education through physical classes. Some of the
schemes introduced under the Digital India concept by government are Digishala,
Digital e-book, e-basta and many more with an envision of better and educated
country.
For a Digital India to succeed in impacting education, it
needs a vision and mission to integrate technology as an important part of our
large and complex school system. It must have a targeted approach to improve
education through digitalization and by providing better teachers and with a
comprehensive vision to provide benefit to a large extent of children. There
are many technology initiatives like e-learning apps, e-books, online practice
exams, e-notes and many more. All these can be a personalized method of
learning but to improve education on a country basis their need to be some
initiative from ground level that is to involve both rural and urban school in
digitalization.
Students should be taught how
to make use of smart phones and laptops for learning more and more about their
subjects and any field of their interests. The technologies to clarify queries,
providing notes, books should be introduced to students in rural and urban
areas. The basic need of computers should be kept in mind. The schools in rural
areas must be introduced with smart classes and public schools should be digitized.
In the end digital India is an amazing opportunity for us. We should not look
in the past and focus on being developed in the field of education. Beacuse
education is the key to development of every country.
The advantages are
quite obvious. With one stroke, we will be able to deal with the critical
teacher shortage problem and also the teacher quality problem. We will also be
able to make education contextualized, localized, relevant and consistent
across the country.
At the end Digital India is a huge opportunity for us to grow
in the field of education. We should not replicate the past mistakes by
engulfing in physical advancement of school instead try to improve in the
digital world with better facilities for our children.
-SWATI PATEL
BBA.LLB(h)
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