The Covid pandemic has impacted life in ways we could not imagine just a year ago. Education was severely disrupted due to the limitations imposed on movement, meetings and gathering. Divya Lal, Managing Director of Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd explains her views on why schools should prepare for a shift to Phygital learning in 2021.
The Covid 19 Pandemic has impacted the education sector in more intrusive manner than any other and the disruption has pushed education systems all over the world to investigate alternatives to face-to-face instruction. Online learning has since then become a saviour and digital learning platforms like Fliplearn in India have emerged as a panacea for schools helping them to go online almost overnight.
While digital learning has helped bypass the roadblocks in education to a great extent, the interminable school lockdowns have forced children to become incarcerated inmates in homes. In this context, homework has acquired an irony missed earlier – to be going to school and getting homework made some sense, but when all schooling is now at home, all work is homework, one could argue.
It is an unfortunate fact that Indian school children spend more hours than their peers across their world finishing homework. Indian teachers assign over 1 billion homework assignments each day through its private schools. Parents in India spend more hours doing homework with their children than any other country.
Not for nothing has homework has been for the longest time the bugbear of the school-learning-teaching triad. While students have thought of them as necessary evil, teachers have broken their backs issuing them, correcting them and assessing them over long hours into the night.
Necessary they might be, but evil they need not to be. Thanks to a momentous intervention by Fliplearn, homework as it was, or as we perceive it, is ready for a transformation that could save teachers and students thousands of hours through modular structures, better efficiencies, more customisation, quicker assessment and better outcomes.
The Homework Transformation System (HTS) by Fliplearn was designed to address this imbalance and obstacles in the current homework setting and checking system with the goal of making home-work easier for students, teachers, and parents.
The Fliplearn HTS enables teachers to assign homework with a single click, offers automated homework correction and gives teachers the option of creating their own content by using the Fliplearn question bank. It tracks class homework performance and provides analytics. In addition, the HTS provides a world-class curated information repository as well as adaptive homework that is truly personalised.
For students, HTS is a great enabler. Students doing homework are provided with the relevant learning material even as they work. With this app the school child can adapt homework as per his or her learning needs, which make learning effective. The app also has a feature to identify academic strength and weakness of the student and offers detailed diagnostics of individual student’s performance and progress for parent, teacher or the student him or herself. HTS also offers students great flexibility. Students can log in at any time on any device. While it is preferable if they establish a daily schedule for themselves and stick to it with parental encouragement, kids can make specific alterations to their schedule as they see fit, making home-work simple, pleasurable and conducive their own temperament and time schedules.
Parents can finally heave a sigh of relief. The tortuous sound of the word ‘homework’ need not ring similarly in their ears anymore. Times have changed. Thanks to Fliplearn HTS, homework has transformed into a positive, proactive, progressive model for learning, teaching and assessing a student’s progress. No surprise that teachers and Principals from well known schools have appreciated the impact made by Fliplearn on Homework Transformation System:
Revathi Mohan Raj, Teacher, Sagar International School, Erode said, “We are incredibly happy to join with Fliplearn – a wonderful e-learning platform for the students and teachers. It really saves our time and efforts. The automated correction feature has made our work remarkably simple, and it helps us to focus on the other aspects of learning. Fliplearn’s finest benefit for teachers is its pre-made question bank, which eliminates the need to create homework on a regular basis and saves time. Fliplearn has been quite helpful and is improving on daily basis.”
Rajesh Dongre, Principal, School of Brilliance, “Fliplearn has been used at our school from the past one year. It has made the process of distance learning incredibly simple and convenient for both students and teachers. We use the Fliplearn app to conduct our live classes, and the best aspect about it is that it allows teachers to assign homework to students through the App. Its automated correction feature reduces the burden of teachers to check the homework and makes a teachers life so much easier.”
Bharti Goel, Teacher, Lord Mahavir Jain Public School, Ambala Cantt said, “Fliplearn is a fantastic, well[1]organized app that assists students in accomplishing their goals. With the content bank, it helps both students and teachers. The worry of homework is about to become a thing of the past for parents, instructors, and kids, thanks to apps like Fliplearn HTS.”
Also read: Fliplearn Edge: helping teachers & students continue learning amid pandemic
