{"id":3568,"date":"2020-07-23T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2020-08-29T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:47:23","slug":"education-in-the-times-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/education-in-the-times-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in the times of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">During this pandemic, in India, the elephant in the room has to be opening of schools and remote learning.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of kids (and schools) who don\u2019t have access to good Internet are falling behind on the learning curve and they are the ones who need regular and good schooling the most. Among the many inequalities the pandemic is amplifying, this is the one which has significant long term social effects.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us who are happy seeing our kids putting long hours online, don\u2019t understand the basics of learning theory. And, I do not think the best of schools and teachers have got a good grasp of online Pedagogy in 2 months to roll out tons of online classes.<\/p>\n<p>With no control of the pandemic in sight, we should be hearing more about this issue from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Many have woken up to the sad state of public healthcare. It\u2019s high time we wake up to the neglected state of education as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Economist \u2013 The risks of keeping schools closed far outweigh the benefits: <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dq79AVZ\" data-attribute-index=\"0\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dq79AVZ<\/a> (pay walled); <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gM6F-WD\" data-attribute-index=\"1\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gM6F-WD<\/a> (non pay walled)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this pandemic, in India, the elephant in the room has to be opening of schools and remote learning. The majority of kids (and schools) who don\u2019t have access to good Internet are falling behind on the learning curve and they are the ones who need regular and good schooling the most. Among the many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linkedin","category-rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}