This story is from June 1, 2020

Delhi: Online classes click with students of government schools

“The online classes are superb. There’s so much to learn. And the best part is that we can record classes in case we miss out on a lesson,” remarked Dia Jain, a Class XII student of a government school, while enthusiastically sharing her feedback with deputy CM and education minister Manish Sisodia.
Delhi: Online classes click with students of government schools
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NEW DELHI: “The online classes are superb. There’s so much to learn. And the best part is that we can record classes in case we miss out on a lesson,” remarked Dia Jain, a Class XII student of a government school, while enthusiastically sharing her feedback with deputy CM and education minister Manish Sisodia.
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On Sunday, Sisodia reviewed different online activities launched during the lockdown for students of government schools. Many activities concluded with the beginning of the summer vacation.
However, there were many children who couldn’t attend the classes.
The data shared by the government for Class XII online classes showed that 85% of the students had registered for it, during which 105 hours of tutoring for 11 subjects were conducted, 10 hours more than normal classes.
In the “Everyday English and Personality Development” activity, out of 2.7 lakh students of classes X and XII appearing for the boards, 83,454 accessed the content. An average of 52,000 students attended the classes held in collaboration with British Council and Macmillan Education.
About 1.75 lakh out of 4.8 lakh children actively took part in the mathematics classes for Class IX students done in collaboration with Khan Academy. Mukesh Jain, a mathematics teacher at a school in Punjabi Bagh, said, “I got a lot of positive feedback from the students. The videos were of such a length that they kept the concentration of the students intact.”

The government also took the entrepreneurship curriculum online for students of classes IX and XII, while for children of classes KG to VIII activities of “Mission Buniyaad” and happiness classes were sent through SMS/IVRS. Sessions called “Parenting in Corona” were also carried out.
Gargi, a student of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya at Chirag Dilli, said she used the lockdown period to improve her script writing as part of the digital Entrepreneurship Mindset Class (EMC) activity. A teacher, Arif, said, “We will have an EMC boot camp and are also documenting my journey of the activity.”
“About 45,000 students of classes IX to XII participated in the digital EMC sessions addressing themes of creativity, managing fear and self awareness, along with two live interactions with accomplished entrepreneurs. We could minimise the academic damage because of the exemplary efforts of our teachers, parents and children who embraced this new way of learning,” said Sisodia.
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