Times of India: HRD announces guidelines for online classes by schools: All you need to know
date：2020-07-20 20:31author：小编source：Times of Indiaviews：
NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry on Tuesday announced guidelines for online classes by schools and recommended a cap on the duration and the number of sessions in a day for students.
The guidelines have been framed by the ministry, following concerns raised by parents about schools conducting online classes like regular schools, which has increased children's screen time after the Covid-19 pandemic mandated a shift from classroom teaching to online learning as schools continue to remain shut for over four months.
Here is a look at what the new guidelines say —
The guidelines have been framed by the ministry, following concerns raised by parents about schools conducting online classes like regular schools, which has increased children's screen time after the Covid-19 pandemic mandated a shift from classroom teaching to online learning as schools continue to remain shut for over four months.
Here is a look at what the new guidelines say —
· In the guideline called "Pragyata", the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has recommended that the duration for online classes for pre-primary students should not be for more than 30 minutes.
· For classes 1 to 8, two online sessions of up to 45 minutes each while for classes 9 to 12, four sessions of 30-45 minutes duration have been recommended.
· The guidelines include eight steps of online or digital learning—plan, review, arrange, guide, talk, assign, track and appreciate.
· These steps guide the planning and implementation of digital education step-by-step with examples.
· The guidelines also emphasised on the need to unify all efforts related to digital or on-air education, benefitting schoolchildren across the country.
· The schools will also need to introduce a suitable method of delivering quality education through a healthy mix of schooling at home and schooling at school.
· The new guidelines have been developed from the perspective of learners, with a focus on online, blended, digital education for students who are presently at home due to the lockdown.
· Need of assessment, concerns while planning online and digital education like duration, screen time, inclusiveness, balanced online and offline activities, level wise modalities of intervention, including resource curation, level-wise delivery have all been incorporated into the new structure.
· Physical, mental health and wellbeing during digital education, cyber safety and ethical practices, including precautions and measures for maintaining cyber safety and collaboration, and convergence with various initiatives are among the various issues addressed by guidelines.
· Noting that in a country like India characterised by multifarious diversity, switching over to digital modes of education needs various states, unions territories and national-level organisations to join hands for a change that wills sustain post-Covid-19 also.
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