New Delhi: One smartphone, three siblings equals zero online classes<\/a>. The stark equation by Mohit Ahirwar, the son of a labourer, explains not just his own learning predicament but that of millions of students on the other side of the digital divide<\/a>. 数字调查由光敏电阻- 1450大学的2000名学生把他们的响应,显示近30%的学生没有自己的笔记本电脑,而40%的人说他们参加网上课程没有一个合适的网络连接。 新德里:一个智能手机,三个兄弟姐妹等于零在线课程。Mohit Ahirwar斯塔克方程,一个工人的儿子,不仅解释了自己学习的困境,但数以百万计的学生在的另一边数字鸿沟。
The yawning gulf between the 'have-nots' and 'haves' with access to devices<\/a> and stable internet connections needed for an online education<\/a>, be it pre-school or post grad, became that much wider with LSR student Aishwarya Reddy ending her life at her Hyderabad home this month because her parents couldn't afford a laptop or a smartphone.
Her father G Srinivas Reddy -- an auto mechanic who mortgaged his home and discontinued his younger daughter's education so Aishwarya could go to the prestigious Delhi college -- said she required a device to attend online classes and had even reached out for help. But the worries, including over fees and scholarship, mounted and the 19-year-old was found hanging in her home on November 2.
As the spotlight swivelled to a crisis of ever growing magnitude, 16-year-old Ahirwal, a Class 10 student at a government school in Jammu, wondered how he will cope. He is not aware of the term \"digital divide\" but is good in Maths and has come up with his own calculation to underscore the hopelessness of his situation.
\"One smartphone, three siblings is equal to zero online classes. My father is a labourer. We own one smartphone which he takes with him when he is out for work. So my 12-year-old sister and I can't attend online classes. My brother has already dropped out of school because of this and is now learning carpentry,\" he told .
\"I asked my father if we could us another phone. He said he would try,\" the teen added in a matter of fact tone.
Speaking with the maturity of one much older, Ahirwar said his father earns between Rs 15,000-20,000 a month, barely enough to make ends meet -- and certainly not to buy an gadget.
The lack of devices is not the only obstacle. Low internet speeds is another.
Like him, many students are fighting the multiple challenges of education in the pandemic<\/a> era which has forced schools and colleges across the spectrum to shift from physical to online classes since March. Competing with siblings and parents for 'gadget time', struggling with poor internet connections, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir where 4G<\/a> is banned and in remote areas, and frequent power outages are among the many hurdles on their way to quality learning.
The writing on the wall is clear: online learning is a luxury that not all can afford in India.
Across the country, only one in 10 households has a computer, desktop, laptop or tablet, according to a 2017-18 National Statistical Office (NSO) report. Besides, only 23.8 per cent households have access to the internet and 12.5 per cent of the country's 35 crore students access to smartphones<\/a>, it added.
The digital divide exists even in India's most elite colleges and is driving a rift that deepens as COVID-19 continues its spread. The uncertainty over a situation that doesn't show any signs of ending is creating its own set of problems.
A digital survey conducted by LSR - to which 1,450 of the college's 2,000 students sent their response - showed nearly 30 per cent of its students did not have a laptop of their own while 40 per cent said they were attending online classes without a proper internet connection. Over 95 per cent of students said online classes had affected their mental and physical health.
One of the students who had participated and flagged her concerns about the online classes in the survey was Aishwarya Reddy.
It's a brutal 'online' world out there, as Reddy learnt and Ahirwar is learning.
The names of Devika Balakrishnan, the daughter of a daily wage labourer in Kerala, Shibani Kumari, whose father is a truck driver in West Bengal, don't ring a bell for Ahirwar. Both the girls were Class 10 students and ended their lives because they didn't have phones to attend their online classes in June, just three months into the nationwide lockdown.
But Rajni Gupta, Ahirwar's teacher at the Government Higher Secondary School in Jammu, knows about them and worries about what the future holds.
The stories are many, some resulting in desperate students ending their lives in frustration and others about parents, barely making enough to feed their families, selling what little they own to buy that precious smartphone.
\"I have over 100 students in my class. But my zoom classes so far have not seen attendance beyond 20. Most of the parents are low income people who toil hard. How can we expect them to get their children a computer, laptop or smartphones?\" Gupta asked.
The issue of internet availability only widens the gap.
According to the 2017-18 National Sample Survey<\/a> report on education, only 24 per cent of Indian households have internet facility. While 66 per cent of India's population lives in villages, a little over 15 per cent of rural households have access to internet services -- for urban households, the proportion is 42 percent.
The situation is worse for Class 10 and 12 students. All their learning content is now available online only and they need one GB data per hour, which is very difficult, argued Sant Ram, district secretary (West A) at Government School Teachers Association (GSTA), Delhi.
\"Only 25 per cent of government school children have access to mobile phones -- and those are not personal devices -- they usually belong to their parents, and they take the phones with them when they leave for work. These students are increasingly developing an inferiority complex because they are lagging behind in their education,\" he added.
The result - an alarming number of dropouts.
A survey by the NGO Save the Children revealed that children in 62 per cent of Indian households have discontinued their education since the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. It surveyed 7,235 families from 15 states in India between June 7 and June 30.
Many institutions are coming forward with different solutions to help students and their parents in these tumultuous times.
The NGO ChildFund, for instance, is following what it calls a \"blended approach\" -- a mix of offline and online -- across 2,500 government schools in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. It is organising \"neighbourhood classes\" following social-distancing norms, distributing books, making phone calls and even visiting homes to keep the learning going.
\"Our blended approach is more tilted towards offline solutions like story books, conversation charts, workbooks, worksheets as well as ensuring a component of contact...,\" said educationist Aekta Chand who works with ChildFund India.
\"Going ahead, we feel that slowly reopening schools is the only way even if it means having children come in very small groups just once a week,\" she added.
While states like Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh or Maharashtra have allowed the reopening of schools -- in some cases restricted to the higher classes only -- many, including Delhi and Odisha, have so far have decided against it.
The Tamil Nadu government has revoked its decision of reopening schools and colleges from November 16.<\/p><\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":79260496,"title":"Sales of budget, premium smartphones soar in festive season, mid-segment takes a hit","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/sales-of-budget-premium-smartphones-soar-in-festive-season-mid-segment-takes-a-hit\/79260496","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[{"msid":"79260162","title":"online study office think","entity_type":"IMAGES","seopath":"industry\/services\/education\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair\/online-study-office-think","category_name":"Digital divide between 'have devices' and 'have not' deepens - and so does student despair","synopsis":false,"thumb":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/thumb\/img-size-560300\/79260162.cms?width=150&height=112","link":"\/image\/industry\/services\/education\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair\/online-study-office-think\/79260162"}],"msid":79260766,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Digital divide between 'have devices' and 'have not' deepens - and so does student despair","synopsis":"A digital survey conducted by LSR - to which 1,450 of the college's 2,000 students sent their response - showed nearly 30 per cent of its students did not have a laptop of their own while 40 per cent said they were attending online classes without a proper internet connection. ","titleseo":"telecomnews\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"analytics":{"comments":0,"views":295,"shares":0,"engagementtimems":1428000},"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"PTI","artdate":"2020-11-17 15:01:07","lastupd":"2020-11-17 15:01:46","breadcrumbTags":["digital divide","online classes","4G","Online Education","Devices","coronavirus","Smartphones","pandemic","National Sample Survey"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2020-11-17" data-index="article_1">
数字鸿沟之间的“设备”和“没有”的深化,学生也是如此绝望
之间的鸿沟的“穷人”与“富人”的访问权设备所需要的精确的和稳定的网络连接在线教育,学前教育或研究生,成为更广泛的与光敏电阻学生Aishwarya Reddy本月海德拉巴结束她的生命在她的家里,因为她的父母负担不起笔记本或智能手机。
她父亲G斯Reddy——一个汽车修理工抵押他的家里,停止他的小女儿的教育所以Aishwarya可以去著名的德里大学,说她需要一个设备参加网上课程,甚至伸手帮忙。但担忧,包括在费用和奖学金,安装和19岁的11月2日被发现吊死在她家里。
“一个智能手机,三个兄弟姐妹在线课程等于零。我的父亲是一名工人。我们拥有一个智能手机时他将与他的工作。所以我12岁的妹妹和我不能参加网上课程。我哥哥已经辍学因为这个,现在学习木工,”他说。
”我问我的父亲如果我们可以另一个电话。他说他会尝试,“青少年在事实上语气补充道。
与一个大得多的成熟,说话Ahirwar说他父亲挣之间Rs 15000 - 20000一个月,仅够维持生计——当然不买一个小玩意。
设备的缺乏并不是唯一的障碍。低网速是另一回事。
像他这样的,许多学生在教育的多重挑战流感大流行时代已迫使频谱将对面的学校和大学物理3月以来在线课程。与兄弟姐妹和父母争夺“小时间”,挣扎在贫穷的互联网连接,特别是在查谟和克什米尔4 g禁止在偏远地区,和频繁的停电许多障碍在他们的学习质量的方法。
墙上的写作是明确的:在线学习是奢侈品,不是所有在印度能负担得起。
全国只有一个在10个家庭电脑,桌面、笔记本电脑或平板电脑,根据国家统计局2017 - 18 (NSO)报告。除此之外,只有23.8%的家庭拥有接入互联网,该国12.5%的35卢比的学生访问权智能手机,它补充说。
数字鸿沟的存在即使在印度最精英大学和推动这一裂痕加深COVID-19继续传播。情况的不确定性,不显示任何结束的迹象是创建自己的一组问题。
数字调查由光敏电阻- 1450大学的2000名学生把他们的响应,显示近30%的学生没有自己的笔记本电脑,而40%的人说他们参加网上课程没有一个合适的网络连接。超过95%的学生表示,网上课程已经影响了他们的身心健康。
的学生之一参与和标记她担忧这项调查是Aishwarya Reddy的在线课程。
这是一个残酷的“在线”的世界,Reddy学和Ahirwar是学习。
的女儿的名字Devika Balakrishnan每天工资劳动者在喀拉拉邦,Shibani库玛丽,他的父亲是一个卡车司机在西孟加拉邦,不为Ahirwar响铃。女孩们班10学生和结束他们的生命,因为他们没有手机6月参加他们的在线课程,只是三个月全国封锁。
但Rajni Gupta, Ahirwar老师在查谟的政府高中学,知道他们担心未来会是个什么样子。
绝望的故事有很多,一些导致学生在挫折和别人结束自己生命的父母,几乎足以养家糊口,卖小他们自己买什么珍贵的智能手机。
“我有100多名学生在我的类。但是我放大类到目前为止还没有看到出勤超过20。大多数的父母都是低收入的人辛苦努力。我们怎么能期望他们让他们的孩子电脑,笔记本电脑或智能手机?”Gupta asked.
网络可用性的问题只有扩大差距。
根据2017 - 18全国抽样调查关于教育的报告,只有24%的印度家庭网络设备。而印度66%的人口生活在农村,略高于15%的农村家庭访问互联网服务,城市家庭,这个比例是42%。
类10和12名学生的情况更糟。他们所有的学习内容是现在网上只有每小时,他们需要一个GB的数据,这是非常困难的,认为桑特Ram区部长(西方)在政府学校教师协会(GSTA),德里。
“只有25%的政府学校的孩子们获得手机,这些不是个人设备——他们通常属于他们的父母,他们把手机当他们离开工作。这些学生越来越多地开发一种自卑感,因为他们在他们的教育落后,”他补充道。
辍学的结果——一个惊人的数字。
非政府组织“拯救孩子”的一项调查显示,62%的印度家庭的孩子停止以来的教育冠状病毒大流行。它调查了来自15个州的7235个家庭在印度在6月7日和6月30日之间。
许多机构都提出不同的解决方案来帮助学生和他们的父母在这个动荡的时代。
ChildFund非政府组织,例如,以下称之为“混合的方法”——离线和在线——在2500年政府学校在拉贾斯坦邦,北方邦和新德里。组织“社区类”社会距离准则后,分发书,打电话,甚至参观房屋继续学习的。
“我们的混合方法更倾向于离线解决方案就像故事书,谈话图表、手册、工作表以及确保组件的联系……教育家说:“Aekta集与印度ChildFund工作。
“继续,我们觉得慢慢重新开放学校是即使这意味着生育的唯一途径是一周一次,在小群体中,“她补充道。
虽然哈里亚纳邦等州,阿鲁纳恰尔邦和马哈拉施特拉邦允许重新开放学校——在某些情况下只局限于更高的类很多,包括德里和Odisha,迄今为止已经决定反对它。
泰米尔纳德邦政府撤销其决定从11月16日重新开放学校和大学。
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New Delhi: One smartphone, three siblings equals zero online classes<\/a>. The stark equation by Mohit Ahirwar, the son of a labourer, explains not just his own learning predicament but that of millions of students on the other side of the digital divide<\/a>.
The yawning gulf between the 'have-nots' and 'haves' with access to devices<\/a> and stable internet connections needed for an online education<\/a>, be it pre-school or post grad, became that much wider with LSR student Aishwarya Reddy ending her life at her Hyderabad home this month because her parents couldn't afford a laptop or a smartphone.
Her father G Srinivas Reddy -- an auto mechanic who mortgaged his home and discontinued his younger daughter's education so Aishwarya could go to the prestigious Delhi college -- said she required a device to attend online classes and had even reached out for help. But the worries, including over fees and scholarship, mounted and the 19-year-old was found hanging in her home on November 2.
As the spotlight swivelled to a crisis of ever growing magnitude, 16-year-old Ahirwal, a Class 10 student at a government school in Jammu, wondered how he will cope. He is not aware of the term \"digital divide\" but is good in Maths and has come up with his own calculation to underscore the hopelessness of his situation.
\"One smartphone, three siblings is equal to zero online classes. My father is a labourer. We own one smartphone which he takes with him when he is out for work. So my 12-year-old sister and I can't attend online classes. My brother has already dropped out of school because of this and is now learning carpentry,\" he told .
\"I asked my father if we could us another phone. He said he would try,\" the teen added in a matter of fact tone.
Speaking with the maturity of one much older, Ahirwar said his father earns between Rs 15,000-20,000 a month, barely enough to make ends meet -- and certainly not to buy an gadget.
The lack of devices is not the only obstacle. Low internet speeds is another.
Like him, many students are fighting the multiple challenges of education in the pandemic<\/a> era which has forced schools and colleges across the spectrum to shift from physical to online classes since March. Competing with siblings and parents for 'gadget time', struggling with poor internet connections, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir where 4G<\/a> is banned and in remote areas, and frequent power outages are among the many hurdles on their way to quality learning.
The writing on the wall is clear: online learning is a luxury that not all can afford in India.
Across the country, only one in 10 households has a computer, desktop, laptop or tablet, according to a 2017-18 National Statistical Office (NSO) report. Besides, only 23.8 per cent households have access to the internet and 12.5 per cent of the country's 35 crore students access to smartphones<\/a>, it added.
The digital divide exists even in India's most elite colleges and is driving a rift that deepens as COVID-19 continues its spread. The uncertainty over a situation that doesn't show any signs of ending is creating its own set of problems.
A digital survey conducted by LSR - to which 1,450 of the college's 2,000 students sent their response - showed nearly 30 per cent of its students did not have a laptop of their own while 40 per cent said they were attending online classes without a proper internet connection. Over 95 per cent of students said online classes had affected their mental and physical health.
One of the students who had participated and flagged her concerns about the online classes in the survey was Aishwarya Reddy.
It's a brutal 'online' world out there, as Reddy learnt and Ahirwar is learning.
The names of Devika Balakrishnan, the daughter of a daily wage labourer in Kerala, Shibani Kumari, whose father is a truck driver in West Bengal, don't ring a bell for Ahirwar. Both the girls were Class 10 students and ended their lives because they didn't have phones to attend their online classes in June, just three months into the nationwide lockdown.
But Rajni Gupta, Ahirwar's teacher at the Government Higher Secondary School in Jammu, knows about them and worries about what the future holds.
The stories are many, some resulting in desperate students ending their lives in frustration and others about parents, barely making enough to feed their families, selling what little they own to buy that precious smartphone.
\"I have over 100 students in my class. But my zoom classes so far have not seen attendance beyond 20. Most of the parents are low income people who toil hard. How can we expect them to get their children a computer, laptop or smartphones?\" Gupta asked.
The issue of internet availability only widens the gap.
According to the 2017-18 National Sample Survey<\/a> report on education, only 24 per cent of Indian households have internet facility. While 66 per cent of India's population lives in villages, a little over 15 per cent of rural households have access to internet services -- for urban households, the proportion is 42 percent.
The situation is worse for Class 10 and 12 students. All their learning content is now available online only and they need one GB data per hour, which is very difficult, argued Sant Ram, district secretary (West A) at Government School Teachers Association (GSTA), Delhi.
\"Only 25 per cent of government school children have access to mobile phones -- and those are not personal devices -- they usually belong to their parents, and they take the phones with them when they leave for work. These students are increasingly developing an inferiority complex because they are lagging behind in their education,\" he added.
The result - an alarming number of dropouts.
A survey by the NGO Save the Children revealed that children in 62 per cent of Indian households have discontinued their education since the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. It surveyed 7,235 families from 15 states in India between June 7 and June 30.
Many institutions are coming forward with different solutions to help students and their parents in these tumultuous times.
The NGO ChildFund, for instance, is following what it calls a \"blended approach\" -- a mix of offline and online -- across 2,500 government schools in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. It is organising \"neighbourhood classes\" following social-distancing norms, distributing books, making phone calls and even visiting homes to keep the learning going.
\"Our blended approach is more tilted towards offline solutions like story books, conversation charts, workbooks, worksheets as well as ensuring a component of contact...,\" said educationist Aekta Chand who works with ChildFund India.
\"Going ahead, we feel that slowly reopening schools is the only way even if it means having children come in very small groups just once a week,\" she added.
While states like Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh or Maharashtra have allowed the reopening of schools -- in some cases restricted to the higher classes only -- many, including Delhi and Odisha, have so far have decided against it.
The Tamil Nadu government has revoked its decision of reopening schools and colleges from November 16.<\/p><\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":79260496,"title":"Sales of budget, premium smartphones soar in festive season, mid-segment takes a hit","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/sales-of-budget-premium-smartphones-soar-in-festive-season-mid-segment-takes-a-hit\/79260496","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[{"msid":"79260162","title":"online study office think","entity_type":"IMAGES","seopath":"industry\/services\/education\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair\/online-study-office-think","category_name":"Digital divide between 'have devices' and 'have not' deepens - and so does student despair","synopsis":false,"thumb":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/thumb\/img-size-560300\/79260162.cms?width=150&height=112","link":"\/image\/industry\/services\/education\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair\/online-study-office-think\/79260162"}],"msid":79260766,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Digital divide between 'have devices' and 'have not' deepens - and so does student despair","synopsis":"A digital survey conducted by LSR - to which 1,450 of the college's 2,000 students sent their response - showed nearly 30 per cent of its students did not have a laptop of their own while 40 per cent said they were attending online classes without a proper internet connection. ","titleseo":"telecomnews\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"analytics":{"comments":0,"views":295,"shares":0,"engagementtimems":1428000},"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"PTI","artdate":"2020-11-17 15:01:07","lastupd":"2020-11-17 15:01:46","breadcrumbTags":["digital divide","online classes","4G","Online Education","Devices","coronavirus","Smartphones","pandemic","National Sample Survey"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair"}}" data-news_link="//www.iser-br.com/news/digital-divide-between-have-devices-and-have-not-deepens-and-so-does-student-despair/79260766">
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