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EW SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

                                          Why Fliplearn has developed


                                          Homework Transformation

                                          System and how it is assisting


                                          teachers and students



                                          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. Ms. 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.


                                          already overstretched working    provides automated homework
                                          from home. All the worksheets    correction, allows teachers the
                                          require guidance, and it is stressful   feature to create their own content
                                          for them to manage all of it and   or use the Fliplearn provided
                   six-year-old girl’s video   provide full time parenting as well.   question bank, check homework
                   message to Prime         The prolonged closure of       performance of class and provides
                   Minister Narendra      schools is forcing India’s education   detailed analytics. The HTS also
                   Mo
         A di, addressing the             industry to evolve quickly in more   offers a world class curated content
         burden of homework during online   creative ways than ever before.   repository and adaptive homework
         classes has not only won millions   Current research indicates that   through real personalization.
         of hearts on the internet but has   one million student hours and nine   The HTS assists the student while
         also put the spotlight on the burden   million teacher hours are spent each   doing the homework with the right
         of homework on kids/students     day on completing, assigning, and   learning material. With this app the
         during this pandemic.            correcting homework. 700 million   school child can adapt homework
           The importance of homework     to 1 billion homework assignments   as per his or her learning needs,
         has long been a point of contention   are given per day to students. It is   which make learning effective. The
         in the educational community,    not only difficult for students to do,   app also has a feature to identify
         but in the wake of the coronavirus   it but also for teachers to research   academic strength and weakness
         pandemic, the topic has become   and create work sheets for students.   of the student and offers detailed
         even more convoluted. Many                                        diagnostics of individual student’s
         working parents have traditionally   Addressing this imbalance    performance and progress.
         expressed dissatisfaction with the   and challenges in the current   Students in online classes can log
         amount of homework assigned      environment and with an aim      in at any time on any device. While
         to their children. They do not   to make homework easier for      it is preferable if they establish
         have time to talk to their kids,   students, teachers and parents,
         let alone help them with their   ed-tech platform Fliplearn has   a daily schedule for themselves
         homework and the situation is both   developed the Homework       and stick to it with parental
         emotionally and psychologically   Transformation System (HTS).    encouragement, kids can make
         challenging. Indian parents spend   It is all set to bring in major   specific alterations to their schedule
         the most hours helping their     transformation in homework       as they see fit, making homework
         children with homework among     with a plethora of new features.   simple, pleasurable and technology
         nations – 12 hours per week      Fliplearn’s HTS saves time for   enabled.
         compared to 7.2 for China and 6.2   students and teachers and offers   Thanks to an app like Fliplearn
         for the US. Many parents are also   dramatic improvement in learning   HTS, the stress of homework is all
         complaining that the worksheets   and assessments. It allows teachers   set to be a problem of the past for
         are “stressful” for them as they are   to assign homework in one click,   parents, teachers and students.


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