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The School should create a digital transformation team; Empowered Student
the responsibility will be as follows: There has been a lot of debate on the following, ideal
Mapping physical classes to digital classes, teachers and screen time for students, lack social interaction between
students credential creation, mapping of lesson plans, Time students, and can a home environment replace a classroom.
Plans, Digital Resource Plan, Delivery Plan and Human For students, technology is no longer an isolated tool or
Resource Plan. separate subject to learn. Many students entering schools
In every Gen Extra Muros there will be five teaching today have an unparalleled comfort with technology and
resources in one class session or called as Class Managers, confidence in their ability to use it. The use of technology
their rolls and responsibility are as follows: is becoming a seamless part of their lives and a powerful
Presenter: Will present the lesson plan to the learner tool for learning.
Collaborator: Will answers the question from the learner Gen Extra Muros has designed a digital learning
on chat and clarify their doubts format for a Connected Learning.
Engagement specialist: will test the learning at various
intervals and will publish the results to the class managers Educator Time:
Content Manager: will drive the class by mapping Each digital leaning session between a learner and
different learning objects for a lesson plan, if the learner are educator should be restricted from a 20 min to 40 min
not able to comprehend the lesson the content manager will session depending on the age group. In this session,
change the learning object to suit the learners, they will get learner will be presented with lessons, in which there will
information from Collaborator and Engagement specialist be collaboration, engagement and personalized learning
during the class and will deliver content dynamically.
DTHL coordinator: will look into IT infrastructure, Peer Time:
starting and ending of the class, digital resources needed Research has shown students learn better by interacting
to conduct the class, entry and exit of students, student with each other. Therefore, our suggestion is project work
attendance, responsible for virtual field trips etc., should be given to smaller groups of students, assigning
them breakaway rooms, so that students can collaborate
Digital Content with each other and compete these projects. This technique
The cube leaders (subject experts) along with their will help build their communication, collaboration,
team of Content Generators and Digital Content Creators creativity, critical thinking and computational thinking
will create content to be presented in virtual classroom. the 5 C’s. These sessions should not exceed more that one
They will be responsible for LESSON PLAN, TIME PLAN, hour a day.
DIGITAL RESOURCE PLAN, DELIVERY PLAN and
HUMAN RESOURCE PLAN Me Time:
Students should learn to do their assignments
Empowered Teachers independently using the digital platform. The platform
Effective learning has always depended on effective should be able to assist the student to complete their
teachers. In the age of technology-empowered education, the assignments using AI techniques. This will improve the
teacher remains the critical link to learning. The integration Critical Thinking of a the learner. AI platform can also
of technology does however create a more sophisticated and record multiple Intelligences of student and make learning
robust role for teachers in the classroom. Now a teacher personalized. Here multimode assessment could be used to
will have more specialize rolls compared to generalized roll understand the learning capability of a student.
in the past. A teacher can be Cube Leader, Digital Content
Creator, Presenter, Collaborator, Engagement specialist, Preparation Time:
Content Manager, DTHL coordinator or all of the above. When students attend the online classes without being
familiar with lesson plan, they are not proactive in the

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