Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Remote Assessments for Children with Disabilities

Access to education has become a major hindrance during thepandemic in India, more so for children with disabilities who have had to face challenges due to inaccessible digital and learning infrastructure. At the beginning of the lockdown, the biggest fear thatPratham encountered was that the 1,000 children with disabilities who had already registered for NIOS, Pratham Open Basic Education would lose a year since their final examination scheduled for the end of March was left undone, due to the onset of COVID-19.

• Deepali Kapoor

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Aanganshala - My Aangan, My School

COVID 19 has been a tough time for everyone across the globe. All walks of life have been disturbed. All over India, schools have been closed since March 2020. While on one hand, health systems have been strained, the effects of COVID have impacted education, jobs and general well-being of people. This impact is going to sustain and continue in 2021.

• Viplow Shivhare

Monday, October 12, 2020

An Opportunity during the Times of Adversity: EdTech Internship

Around mid-July, the Digital team at Pratham rolled out a call for interns to support the on-going projects and initiatives in EdTech, and to ensure that the interns get a hands-on experience in education’s new normal.The team eventually ended up having an extremely rewarding experience to get to know over a hundred applicants. This is when the idea of establishing a formal Remote EdTech Internship Programme emerged.

• Suprerana Chakraborty

Monday, October 12, 2020

Learning First Aid Online

“When I was bitten by a snake, the villagers made me eat salt and chilli powder. They said if I couldn’t taste the salt and hot chilli, it meant that the venom had spread in my body” narrated a Pratham staff member from Madhya Pradesh. A young female volunteer who works with Pratham’s Early Childhood Education program in Patna said that one should apply ice cold milk on third-degree burns while others spoke of using toothpaste, lime (Choona) and certain spices for abrasion and minor cuts. These were some of the many shocking revelations about common practices of dealing with emergencies and injuries. We encountered them while conducting several virtual calls on first aid with our team members.

• Uma Ranade