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Technology and Mobile Phones in the Pandemic

Since the beginning of the pandemic till date, the time period marked by lockdowns and the blazing fire of COVID, it seems that the world has shifted online. It isn’t that before the pandemic people didn’t possess mobile phones or didn’t have accounts on social networking websites, but now the times are different in the sense that our interaction with technology has increased manifold. Earlier ‘Mobile Phones: a boon or a bane’ used to be a debate competition topic for students but now this subject is no longer debatable; mobiles are, in these COVID days, a necessity. Technology seems to have made its way in almost all of our daily activities and the most visible face of technology are mobile phones-accessible & portable. School classrooms and office meeting rooms now function with our cameras on while we keep playing the ‘mute-unmute game’. Earlier while there used to be a rush to hail a cab or catch the school bus to be in time, now an internet lag is just enough to cause a disruption. Technology has always guaranteed our connectivity with the outside world but while venturing into the amazing world of internet, we seem to have confined ourselves to […]

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Online Learning in the Pandemic

Since the historic beginning of the new decade in 2020 with the COVID-19 outbreak, internet has been breaking down barriers and been removing the traditional gatekeepers in many established fields. One of the key domains which have undergone a metamorphosis is education. The students have attempted to adapt themselves to the ‘new normal’ ways of online learning alongside their dedicated teachers who have tremendously worked hard to make online teaching effective and interactive. Technology has come to the forefront in these testing times and being immersed in it throughout the year has honed the technical skills massively. With the number of COVID cases in full swing, online learning platforms like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Cisco Webex, Google Classroom etc. have come to the rescue. No doubt, everyone thoroughly misses the physical classroom learning, but in these pandemic times, these online learning platforms have provided the optimal alternatives. It has allowed us to venture into ways of learning we had not envisaged earlier, like learning through slides, playing quizzes with friends and classmates etc. Giving online examinations has been an altogether new experience for the students. Also, there have been other online tutoring platforms which students have largely adopted in this online […]