Students stuck in Cyber Bullying; lagging in social skills Academic session 2022-23 is the year of ‘coping up with learning loss’
Students stuck in Cyber Bullying; lagging in social skills
Academic session 2022-23 is the year of ‘coping up with learning loss’
Students are falling behind compared with where they should be, including in social skills, fitness, job prospects etc, as noted by UNICEF in a survey conducted in India, and this challenge will multiply if school education system does not take steep measures. Furthermore, with online education and excessive indulgence in online activities, students have been trapped in various crimes.
The number of cybercrimes registered in 2012 was 3,377 and in 2020 it had increased to more than 50,000 cases and by 2025 the crime rate was projected to go up by 231% according to cybercrime portal. In another survey by a computer company, a whopping 85 per cent of children in India have reported being cyber bullied as well as having cyber bullied someone.
While some private schools are on their tips and organising Model United Nation (MUN), competitions and providing more opportunities to students for developing the skills, government schools in Indore and across Madhya Pradesh are lagging behind in these learning. Cyber security workshops are often organised, but lag of learning is a major issue for future of India.
Some 67 per cent of parents of students aged 5–13 and 71 per cent of students aged 14–18 said that overall progress is significantly behind or somewhat behind, compared with what it would be in school. The same finding was noted in the UNICEF survey.
Hence, as per educationists and motto of schools, the academic session 2022-23 is the year of ‘coping up with learning loss’ as students have immeasurably suffered educationally due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While releasing the findings of national survey on “Learning Loss in School Education during the Pandemic”, Vinod Kumar, the State Planning Board Vice Chairman urged that educators should gear up to bridge the learning gap occurred due to the pandemic. National Independence Schools Alliance (NISA) cited in the survey that the pandemic did havoc on the tetrad skills of any language learning proficiency, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
Indore Sahodaya Complex of CBSE Schools chairperson Kanchan Tare said, “Online Learning was an essential way to keep the learning going and while it worked in staying connected with books, it has resulted in several shortcomings as well.” She added that Inter-School Sahodaya competitions are being organised more frequently to bridge the gap and motivate students.
Explaining how it has affected students, former chairperson of Sahodaya UK Jha, “Students’ abilities of writing and attempting examinations in timed situation have seen a steep fall.” He added that schools are now trying to at least bring students back on learning track with events, interactive sessions and project-based assignments.
Arindam Chattopadhyay, a senior educationist from Indore, said, “The online mode could not cater much academic aid to the students, especially in the rural areas.” He added students of urban dwellings became victims of internet addiction, especially to the three subtypes of Internet addictions, video games and animations, cybersex and online gambling.
Giving suggestions on how students can gain back their skills with proficiency in English, Chattopadhyay suggests:
Practise Oration – Get back your speaking skills
A few rudimentary measures are imperative to eradicate students’ proclivity to digital pandemic. Students need to take refuge to the time proven practice of loud reading to lessen distractions and enhance oratory skills and memorisation.
The Writing Challenge – learn to exhale
Pandemic has caused a corroding decline in writing habits. Awareness, that, Writing and reading are inseparably entwined, should be inculcated among students. They must be cognizant of the fact that Reading is inhalation and writing is exhalation. Writing while reading may consume a little more time but the return will be thousand folds the investment. The recipe of accomplishment is the intensity of focus multiplied by the time spent.
Keyword mnemonic using mental imagery for Vocabulary
English communication gets stifled due to the lack of stock of verbs and vocabs. As verbs pave the way for Language development, students need to know the meaning and forms of action words and the recurrent usages of them through Tenses.
Learning of literature become an enduring experience if paragraph mapping, side noting, self-summarization, highlighting and underlining potentially important portions of to-be-learned materials while reading is made.
Keyword mnemonic using mental imagery to associate verbal materials is a good aid to easy recapitulation.
Determinately, it’s high time for all to sense the ‘epistemology of loss’ and adapt, conform and acclimatise well with the “Digital Pedagogy”, the judicious use of digital technologies for teaching and reinforcing classical methodologies of learning.
Academic session 2022-23 is the year of ‘coping up with learning loss’
Students are falling behind compared with where they should be, including in social skills, fitness, job prospects etc, as noted by UNICEF in a survey conducted in India, and this challenge will multiply if school education system does not take steep measures. Furthermore, with online education and excessive indulgence in online activities, students have been trapped in various crimes.
The number of cybercrimes registered in 2012 was 3,377 and in 2020 it had increased to more than 50,000 cases and by 2025 the crime rate was projected to go up by 231% according to cybercrime portal. In another survey by a computer company, a whopping 85 per cent of children in India have reported being cyber bullied as well as having cyber bullied someone.
While some private schools are on their tips and organising Model United Nation (MUN), competitions and providing more opportunities to students for developing the skills, government schools in Indore and across Madhya Pradesh are lagging behind in these learning. Cyber security workshops are often organised, but lag of learning is a major issue for future of India.
Some 67 per cent of parents of students aged 5–13 and 71 per cent of students aged 14–18 said that overall progress is significantly behind or somewhat behind, compared with what it would be in school. The same finding was noted in the UNICEF survey.
Hence, as per educationists and motto of schools, the academic session 2022-23 is the year of ‘coping up with learning loss’ as students have immeasurably suffered educationally due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While releasing the findings of national survey on “Learning Loss in School Education during the Pandemic”, Vinod Kumar, the State Planning Board Vice Chairman urged that educators should gear up to bridge the learning gap occurred due to the pandemic. National Independence Schools Alliance (NISA) cited in the survey that the pandemic did havoc on the tetrad skills of any language learning proficiency, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
Indore Sahodaya Complex of CBSE Schools chairperson Kanchan Tare said, “Online Learning was an essential way to keep the learning going and while it worked in staying connected with books, it has resulted in several shortcomings as well.” She added that Inter-School Sahodaya competitions are being organised more frequently to bridge the gap and motivate students.
Explaining how it has affected students, former chairperson of Sahodaya UK Jha, “Students’ abilities of writing and attempting examinations in timed situation have seen a steep fall.” He added that schools are now trying to at least bring students back on learning track with events, interactive sessions and project-based assignments.
Arindam Chattopadhyay, a senior educationist from Indore, said, “The online mode could not cater much academic aid to the students, especially in the rural areas.” He added students of urban dwellings became victims of internet addiction, especially to the three subtypes of Internet addictions, video games and animations, cybersex and online gambling.
Giving suggestions on how students can gain back their skills with proficiency in English, Chattopadhyay suggests:
Practise Oration – Get back your speaking skills
A few rudimentary measures are imperative to eradicate students’ proclivity to digital pandemic. Students need to take refuge to the time proven practice of loud reading to lessen distractions and enhance oratory skills and memorisation.
The Writing Challenge – learn to exhale
Pandemic has caused a corroding decline in writing habits. Awareness, that, Writing and reading are inseparably entwined, should be inculcated among students. They must be cognizant of the fact that Reading is inhalation and writing is exhalation. Writing while reading may consume a little more time but the return will be thousand folds the investment. The recipe of accomplishment is the intensity of focus multiplied by the time spent.
Keyword mnemonic using mental imagery for Vocabulary
English communication gets stifled due to the lack of stock of verbs and vocabs. As verbs pave the way for Language development, students need to know the meaning and forms of action words and the recurrent usages of them through Tenses.
Learning of literature become an enduring experience if paragraph mapping, side noting, self-summarization, highlighting and underlining potentially important portions of to-be-learned materials while reading is made.
Keyword mnemonic using mental imagery to associate verbal materials is a good aid to easy recapitulation.
Determinately, it’s high time for all to sense the ‘epistemology of loss’ and adapt, conform and acclimatise well with the “Digital Pedagogy”, the judicious use of digital technologies for teaching and reinforcing classical methodologies of learning.