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Pragyata - Guidelines for Digital Education at School Level


PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education

Guidelines place a cap on duration and number of online sessions in a day
for students from Class I to XII - New Delhi 14 th July, 2020

भारत सरकारने शालेय स्तरावर ऑनलाईन शिक्षणासाठी मार्गदर्शक नियम तयार केले आहेत.
त्यात मुलांच्या सर्व आवश्यकतांचा विचार केलेला असून
त्याबद्दल अधिक मार्गदर्शन व आदर्श वस्तुपाठ ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशन देऊ शकेल.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' released
PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education through online medium.

COVID-19 pandemic has led to closure of schools and has impacted over 240 million children of the country who are enrolled in schools. Extended school closures may cause loss of learning.

To mitigate the impact of the pandemic, schools will not only have to remodel and reimagine the way teaching and learning have happened so far, but 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 Minister informed that PRAGYATA guidelines have been developed from the perspective of learners, with a focus on online/blended/digital educationfor students
who are presently at home due to lockdown.

He added that these guidelines on Digital/ Online Education provide a roadmap or pointers for carrying forward online education to enhance the quality of education. The Minister highlighted that the guidelines will be relevant and useful for a diverse set of stakeholders including school heads, teachers, parents, teacher educators and students.

The guidelines stress upon the use of alternative academic calendar of NCERT, for both, learners having access to digital devices and learners having limited or no access.
Guidelines place a cap on duration and number of online sessions in a day for students from Class I to XII

The guidelines outlines suggestions for administrators, school heads, teachers, parents
and students on the following areas:

● Need assessment
● Concerns while planning online and digital education like duration, screen time,
inclusiveness, balanced online and offline activities etc level wise
● Modalities of intervention including resource curation, level wise delivery etc.
● Physical, mental health and wellbeing during digital education
● Cyber safety and ethical practices including precautions and measures for
maintaining cyber safety
● Collaboration and convergence with various initiatives


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