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Digital divide is stark, online education still far from reality: ASER -Prashant K Nanda

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* States like Maharashtra, Gujarat, MP, and Tripura, who have reported more than 30 percentage points in the proportion of children whose families own a smartphone include

* There is limited evidence on the extent to which this content is reaching children and the impact it is having on their learning

NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the huge push, only one third of India’s school children are pursuing online education and a smaller cohort of this 32.5% are doing live online classes, the Annual Status of Education Report showed Wednesday underlining how the digital divide is still wide in the school sector.

While just 11% of all the students enrolled in both private and government schools were using online classes, another 21.5% were using videos or recorded classes. And if you take the government school children alone, then only 8.1% enrolled children were using online classes across the country.

And this despite the smart phone ownership in students household jumping significantly between 2018 and 2020, the ASER report by education non-profit Pratham showed.

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