Lockdown diaries: Kids started using digital devices more than ever before

With online teaching replacing in-person classes, students had to spend long hours with laptops or mobile screens followed by assignments and projects

Hyderabad: Several school students who used to be proud of their toys, gaming consoles, cricket kits etc., have now become proud owners of laptops, desktops, tablets, or mobile phones.

As learning went online due to lockdown and continued subsequently, electronic gadgets have taken precedence and parents were left with no option but either buy or arrange laptop or mobile phone for continuing their ward’s learning.

With online teaching replacing in-person classes, students had to spend long hours with laptops or mobile screens followed by assignments and projects.

Not just students, teachers who were used to in-person classes had to adapt to emerging ways of teaching. They were forced to quickly up-skill themselves technologically to stay relevant for online teaching.

However, the new method of teaching and learning process put pressure on the parents particularly for those with two or more school going children as each needed a gadget of their own.

While some parents could manage to buy a new laptop, desktop or mobile spending money out of their savings, several other parents, particularly from middle-class and lower-middle-class sections had to either lend their own mobile phones or repair the old ones to ensure their ward’s learning in the lockdown.

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