[Research] Fwd: Education Emergency

Fri Sep 17 14:44:14 IST 2021

Dear Guru and everybody,

Thanks a lot, and please do share any feedback. Do note that several 
audio recordings are linked off from the report and if you feel any 
indepth interviews or stories will help further then please do let us 
know, we'll try to facilitate interactions with the Mobile Vaani users 
who reported their experiences and thoughts.

And sure, do upload it to the research studies website. We are in the 
process of upgrading our website and will take a couple of days to put 
it up at our end.

Btw, when you share on social media please tag @gramvaani on 
Twitter/Facebook, and we'll share further.

regards

Aadi

On 17-09-2021 10:50, Guru wrote:
> Dear Aadi
>
> Thank you for sharing the study report. The report itself is so well 
> done and its messages clear. The numbers on school dropout are 
> alarming and we are seeing it also in terms of reduced enrolment when 
> schools open.
> It was a wonderful idea to use the Graamvani <https://gramvaani.org/> 
> network to get the study done!
>
> I am copying our research working group and we will include this 
> report in our next research compilation that we will share in Nov-Dec. 
> (Archana/friends any other comments/suggestions?)
>
> Is this report available online? (if not we can upload and provide a 
> link on 
> https://educationemergency.net/category/resource/research-studies/). I 
> will also request my colleague Sreemoyee to tweet it from the 
> @eduemergency handle today/tomorrow.
>
> thanks once again.
>
> warm regards
> Guru
>
> Gurumurthy Kasinathan
> www.ITforChange.Net| Cell:91 9845437730 | Tel:91 80 26654134, 26536890
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>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Education Emergency
> Date: 	Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:35:52 +0530
> From: 	Aaditeshwar Seth <aseth at cse.iitd.ac.in>
> To: 	Guru <Guru at ITforChange.net>
>
>
>
> Dear Guru,
>
> Hope you have been well.
>
> Encouraged by Bhaskar, we conducted an IVR survey on the Mobile Vaani 
> platforms to ask parents about school reopening and the impact that 
> the 1.5 years of school lockdown has had on the children. It took us 
> very long though to get it rolling and to analyze the results because 
> our team got bogged down suddenly with some important project 
> deadlines. I'm sending the survey report and some highlights are 
> below, largely in line with the SCHOOL survey recently completed by 
> Jean and Reetika.
>
>
> - 1243 people participated in this survey to report about school 
> re-opening and the impact of the lockdown on children’s learning.
>
> - 72% of parents want to send their children to schools while 14% are 
> fearful of COVID and are reluctant in their wards to school. 9% said 
> that they want to wait for vaccination of their child. Around 5% have 
> yet not decided or cannot comment at the moment.
>
> - Only 17% of parents said that they have separate smart phones with 
> internet for their children to do online classes while 20% said that 
> their children share the smart phones among themselves to undertake 
> online classes. Around 55% of parents said that either they have a 
> single smartphone in their houses for daily use or there is no 
> smartphone, which impedes their children from online learning.
>
> - Among those who are able to take online classes, children face many 
> challenges. The foremost challenge stated by 36% of parents is that 
> teachers are not able to pay attention to each and every child during 
> online classes, followed by 36% of parents who said that online 
> content is hard for their children to comprehend.
>
> - 61% ofparents are of the view that children have lost interest in 
> studies and it has been one of the most adverse effects of children 
> not being able to attend school. Mobile phone addiction, poor 
> nutrition (as children are not able to avail Mid day meal and 
> Aanganwadi provisions) are other adverse effects expressed by parents.
>
> - 39% percent further expressed that their children have dropped out 
> in order to work and earn for the household. Another 22% dropped out 
> for a lack of resources like school fee, smartphones and laptops.
>
> - 57% of parents suggested that the government must ensure that all 
> the teachers and other staff have been vaccinated to smoothly resume 
> schools. 19% suggested that schools can resume activities with a 
> reduced number of children in classes along with following COVID 
> related compliances like proper sanitation, masking and social 
> distancing.
>
>
> regards
>
> Aadi
>
>
> On 05-08-2021 12:53, Aaditeshwar Seth wrote:
>>
>> Dear Guru,
>>
>> Yes for sure, I'm CCing Reetika. She is of course the front-runner 
>> here in raising these and other social issues to public attention.
>>
>> I am also CCing Professor Bhaskaran Raman from IIT Bombay who has 
>> also been championing the aspect of re-opening of schools. He 
>> recently put in a letter to several state CMs endorsed by a wide 
>> network of academics, lawyers, and educationalists.
>>
>>
>> Dear Reetika and Bhaskar, Guru leads IT for Change in Bangalore. He 
>> has a very rich experience of working with the education system 
>> especially in Kerala and Karnataka, and is also a strong advocate for 
>> the use of FOSS (free and open-source software) in schools to replace 
>> the use of proprietary software in teaching and the education 
>> curriculum. Please do see the links below on the education emergency.
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Aadi
>>
>>
>> On 8/5/2021 12:44 PM, Guru wrote:
>>> on another note Aadi
>>>
>>> I am part of a  National Coalition on the Education Emergency, 
>>> which  has been formed, to create a wider social mobilization around 
>>> the issues connected to school closure.
>>>
>>> I saw an interview of Reetika Khera, IIT-D on 
>>> https://m.thewire.in/article/education/watch-karan-thapar-online-education-covid-schools 
>>> and she has discussed many of the points we have been speaking 
>>> about.  While many are saying clearly that schools and colleges must 
>>> open (carefully), bringing them together and connecting these ideas 
>>> to communities, mass organizations would  make the task of 
>>> persuading governments less difficult.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible for you to forward this mail to her, I would 
>>> like to discuss and see how she could amplify the messages as well 
>>> as support us in building a larger social mobilization around this 
>>> issue.
>>> https://educationemergency.net/2021/08/resume-and-renew-education-for-26-crore-children/
>>> https://educationemergency.net/
>>>
>>> thanks and regards
>>> Guru
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> *Gurumurthy Kasinathan*| Director
>>> IT for Change <http://www.itforchange.net/>
>>> (/In special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC)/
>>> 91-80-26654134 |91-9845437730
>>>
> -- 

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Aaditeshwar Seth
Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Delhi

http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~aseth
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