Pragyata Guidelines for Digital Education:

• Can hold live online classes for a maximum of 1.5 hours per day for Classes 1-8.
• For kinder garden, nursery and pre-school, only 30 minutes of screen time per day for interacting with parents.
• Three hours per day for Classes 9-12
• Advice schools to first survey their own students before making decisions about the mode of teaching.
• Children exposed to digital technologies or gadgets for a longer time are prone to severe health issues
• “Asynchronous learning” with tools to allow students to download lessons.
• Listen to radio and TV programmes
• Communicate through Whatsapp and SMS
• Study on their own and undertake creative projects.

Survey Required:

• To assess the available digital infrastructure.
• Availability of the digital devices as multiple children at home may access the digital medium through single device.
• Objective should be to ensure that no child is left behind.

About the guidelines:

• Released by Ministry of Human Resources
• Prepared by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
• Advisory in nature.
• State government can form their own rules as per local requirement.

Digital based education programme by Government:

1. Swayam:

• An integrated platform for offering online courses and covering school (9th to 12th) to Post Graduate Level.
• NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) has been developing course modules for MOOCs for school education system in 12 subject areas.

2. Swayam Prabha:

• SWAYAM Prabha is an initiative to provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH.
• Curriculum-based course content covering diverse disciplines.

3. National Digital Library:

• Project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.
• There are more than three crores digital resources available through the NDL.

4. Spoken Tutorial:

• 10-minute long, audio-video tutorial, on open source software, to improve employment potential of students.
• The languages are C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, PERL, Scilab, OpenFOAM, OpenModelica, DWSIM, LibreO and many more.

5. E-Yantra:

• Project for enabling effective education across engineering colleges in India on embedded systems and Robotics.
• The training for teachers and students is imparted through workshops where participants are taught basics of embedded systems and programming.

Reference: https://www.thehindu.com/education/schools/online-classes-centres-norms-limit-classroom-screen-time/article32083031.ece

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