What makes the difference between the children of government and private schools is the facility of advanced digital learning spaces in private schools but found missing in government schools.
With technological intervention changing the education of children in schools , colleges and universities, the class room teaching-learning practices in schools have also changed unprecedentedly in recent years. The children in schools are so much addicted to use of social media sites and U-tube channels on their mobile handsets that they learn all that much in advance what they are supposed to learn after entering the kindergarten classrooms. So technology has changed the lives of children more than their parents and teachers. The parents as such can’t deny the facility of android mobile phones to their children but are driven by an uncompromising compulsion to provide android mobiles phones to their children more for their education and very less for playing video games . Now what makes the difference between the children of government and private schools is the facility of advanced digital learning spaces in private schools but found missing in government schools. Since the facility of digital learning spaces is as good a necessity for children in government schools as it is in private schools, the onus of providing digital learning spaces in government schools lies on the School Education Department of the Jammu & Kashmir Government. Though digital learning spaces are available in most of the government schools in cities and towns in both Kashmir valley and Jammu division but digital learning spaces are rarely available in Government schools in rural areas of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. In fact the enhancement of digital spaces, availability of laptops, and tablets in the libraries in government schools is a bigger challenge for the School Education Department in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division.
“While non else than Lt Governor Manoj Sinha himself has not once but many a times in last two years reiterated that hassle free investments for advancing digital infrastructure in education and health sectors is an uncompromised priority for the Government in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division, the Jammu & Kashmir Government obviously won’t have any issues in clearing the investment proposals for establishing digital learning spaces in some government schools and advancing it in such government schools which have been already equipped such facilities in recent years. Since the focus of the New Education Policy (NEP) is on technological interventions in education not only in colleges and universities but in schools as well, the Jammu & Kashmir Government won’t also hesitate to invest on advancing technology inside the classrooms”.
After all the School Education Department has to invest in establishing digital infrastructural facilities in Government schools in rural areas and also spend some part of the budget also on advancing the already established digital infrastructure in urban schools in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. While non else than Lt Governor Manoj Sinha himself has not once but many a times in last two years reiterated that hassle free investments for advancing digital infrastructure in education and health sectors is an uncompromised priority for the Government in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division, the Jammu & Kashmir Government obviously won’t have any issues in clearing the investment proposals for establishing digital learning spaces in some government schools and advancing it in such government schools which have been already equipped such facilities in recent years. Since the focus of the New Education Policy (NEP) is on technological interventions in education not only in colleges and universities but in schools as well, the Jammu & Kashmir Government won’t also hesitate to invest on advancing technology inside the classrooms .
