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Future of teaching online

While teaching online for the past few days, I have been watching my young colleague improving dramatically, adapting to the needs of online teaching. This is not one-off; the young generation is much more comfortable being online. There are still challenges of Internet not being reliable; but why do we complain about this? If you use your mobile phone for more than 3 minutes in this country, there will be a call drop invariably (esp. if you are moving.....mobile phones!!).

Coming back to where I started, I also came across a newspaper report stating that more and more Indian youngsters today are opting for free online certification courses nowadays. This provides immense hope on future of online learning. Therefore, teachers today need to prepare themselves for teaching an "online generation". It is imperative that teachers have a new skill to be added to their armoury.

The other challenge this will pose to teachers is the ability to deal with more diverse set of students in classroom. For example, this young friend of mine has been finding it difficult to deal with students from down south (Tamilnadu), given that this boy is from Delhi and has never travelled out of Delhi.

I am hoping that there will more challenges unfolding as they say..."picture a hi baki hain, dost!"

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