Our Lives in Pandemic: Online Teaching – Learning
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Online Learning, Screen Time, Elementary School Children, Daily Routines in PandemicAbstract
“As the pandemic continues, we all are stuck in our homes and trying to adjust to this new situation. For me a huge
change has been learning online. I know studying is important but there should be more to online learning than just
staring at a screen and listening to lectures for hours at a time. We all are trying our best to adjust but I am not a big
fan of watching teachers present PPT’s. It is difficult to communicate online, I understand that, but even then, we
are trying to optimise our learning. Luckily, unlike most of my classmates, I am able to understand all the topics
we are learning in class”.
It is a student’s reaction to online classes, conducted by her school. How do children perceive online learning?
The paper tries to analyse how this pandemic has changed lives of children for better or worse. This paper provides
a brief overview of online education in India during this pandemic of COVID 19. It also focuses on the lives of
children in Class VI of a specific school where online education is said to be ‘successful’.
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