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Covid-19: Challenge & Response to continue learning the four subjects.

“Our learning system and technol-
ogy ensures that if children can’t come
ith a third of the global Sethi, founder-director and principal to school, we can take school to their
population and K-12 and of this top-ranked co-ed international homes. Now any school can begin its
Whigher education institu- day school. academic year every Monday starting
tions in 185 countries including India, April 6 by accessing LEAD School@
locked down since mid-March to pre- Arya Gurukul School, Home. All they need is to register on
vent the spread of the coronavirus aka the LEAD School portal and our team
Covid-19 pandemic, educators world- Mumbai will help them started quickly. Sub-
wide are confronted with the great- sequently, parents can monitor their
est disruption since the Spanish flu hane (Mumbai)-based Arya Guru- children’s progress through the LEAD
outbreak of 1918. Consequently, edu- Tkul School has completed final ex- parentsapp,” says Sumeet Mehta,
cation institutions are responding to aminations of classes V-VIII students co-founder and CEO of LEAD School.
this disruption by shifting from tradi- by switching to the online mode. An
tional classrooms to online teaching- online portal was promptly created for Mussoorie International
learning and installing new ICT (infor- scrutiny of science (class V), Sanskrit
mation communication technologies) (class VI), social studies (class VII) School
software and downloading two-way and math (class VIII) papers. The
video conferencing apps to adhere to digital platform was developed by the ussoorie International School
their academic calendars. school’s technical support team work- M(MIS) has partnered with Fli-
The silver lining of the Covid-19 cri- ing round the clock. plearn Education to curate an in-
sis is that it has stimulated education The parents of all 546 classes V- novative, technology-driven teach-
institutions and edtech companies the VIII students responded positively for ing-learning process for its 453 girl
world over, to innovate ICT solutions conducting these exams online. Stu- students and is leveraging the ed-tech
to ensure that the teaching-learning dents were given weblinks to write the platform to ensure continuity of the
process continues. Here’s how sev- exams online at a time of their choice teaching-learning process. Among its
eral randomly selected institutional within a 48-hours time window. several initiatives:
managements are responding to the Remote teacher training. Recently
Covid-19 challenge. LEAD School@Home MIS teachers attended an engaging
session detailing video conference
Riverside School, programme systems. They have mastered screen
sharing, white boarding, annotations,
Ahmedabad he Mumbai-based Leadership breakout rooms, virtual backgrounds,

TBoulevard Pvt. Ltd (estb.2012), in-meeting chats, local recording and
tudents of this Cambridge Interna- a company that provides integrated non-verbal feedback with bluetooth
Stional, UK-affiliated school chose technology, curriculum and peda- headphones.
to continue their on-site volunteer gogy as a complete learning solution Seamless learning. The Fliplearn
work with the elderly in retirement for classes I-IX to over 800 schools e-learning platform facilitates simu-
homes and with children in paediat- countrywide, has designed a new lation classroom learning with at-
ric cancer centres under the school’s LEAD School@Home solution for all home students across the country
unique Callinteer programme. Every English-medium schools countrywide and the globe logging into live classes
morning Riverside volunteer students to start their new academic year in streamed from 9.30 am to 1.20 pm,
continue to engage with and provide April. Over 100,000 students of the five days per week. Attendance is al-
online comfort and good cheer to the company’s 800 partner schools began most 100 percent.
elderly and child cancer patients in their new academic year on April 2, Co-curricular education. MIS’ e-
specified old age homes and childcare learning four critical subjects — Eng- learning initiative covers co-curricular
centres. Their calls — often made lish, math, science and social science education activities including dance,
through Facetime or Skype — last for — online. music and yoga classes conducted
10-30 minutes and include playing In a special offer to enable children regularly with students and parents
online games. to continue learning, Leadership Bou- participation.
“The feedback from caregivers and levard offers seven days free trial of “At MIS, we believe that a minus-
nurses is that the elderly and children Lead School@Home to all schools cule virus should not be allowed to
look forward to these interactions countrywide, followed by a price of- disrupt education. So we have lever-
which liven their day,” says Kiran Bir fer of Rs.200 per student per month aged new information communica-

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