You don’t have to be a parent to be aware of the change in the educational scene in recent years, all thanks to the pandemic.
While children rejoiced at their extended summer holidays, and teachers worried about their jobs and their monthly pay, experts came up with a solution that could keep everyone happy today
And the answer to that is Ed Tech, which is a combination of hardware, and software, put together, resulting in a beautiful combination to help parents, teachers and kids today.
Kids get to learn in the comfort of their homes while parents stay around, monitoring them. And teachers, well, they just become more useful on a platform that is more effective than the front of a blackboard
What Is Ed Tech?
Picture a child made to sit and listen to a teacher droning on about something in a classroom and try to imagine him/her paying attention. Hard, right?
Now picture the same child in front of a mobile phone or tablet watching something interactive and useful? Now, you can imagine him/her learning, right?
And this is exactly what Ed Tech tries to do, making use of that part which is a nuisance in most children’s lives today and turning it into something good, especially in this time of the pandemic, where education has become more of a challenge today.
So, if you are a parent whose child is already seen with a tab a lot of times, worry not, let’s turn this into something useful by exploring some of the best ed tech startups that seem to be shaking the scene of education today.
How Does It All Work?
Ed Tech is all about education going digital. And don’t you think your children are going to love that? Gone are the days when learning meant having to face a teacher against a blackboard, not when you have better and more colorful options with learning that could happen on a digital screen today.
So, in other words, we can say that the pandemic did something good to the educational system today, opening to our kids a world of new opportunities, thus making learning fun, interactive and most important, effective
Children now enjoy a more immersive learning by including all their senses: visual, auditory and tactile.
If you found this interesting, read on, for we are going to talk about four ed tech platforms that have been shaking lives today, and how you can make your child a part of them too.
Kutuki – Because Learning Is Not By Books Alone
This is a Bangalore based Ed startup founded by Sneha Sundaram in the year 2017 to aid in helping young Indian children to grow. This proved to be very useful in helping children learn each day as they spend an increasing amount of time at home, (and obviously in front of their screens) in this pandemic.
Here you can find not only efficient teachers, but musicians, artists, storytellers and various other professionals to help a child grow in various areas of interests today.
Here you can find 100s of videos, songs, stories and other engaging content that a child can immerse himself in and grow all the same, be it in his numbers, vocabulary and even his life skills in general
OckyPocky – Get Them To Learn English
Now, that’s quite a cute name, isn’t it? It’s especially going to attract your child and draw your little one to it.
Founded by Whiozkids in the year 2015, this Haryana based startup is meant to aid children in improving their language skills, and isn’t that what a child’s main focus is supposed to be in those early years?
So, instead of making your child sit down for some punishing time with his nose in an English reader, let’s make his English learning more interesting with a platform that’s designed just for this.
Kiddopia – Fun Based On the Curriculum
Kiddopia was established in 2012. This Mumbai based startup by Anupam and Anshu Dhanuka is aimed towards providing an edutainment app called Paper Boat for preschoolers, which obviously came to be a lot useful in these days of the pandemic.
Here, learning is curriculum linked and integrated with lessons kids commonly learn at school, like math, language and even general knowledge and activities that aid in creative and emotional role-play.
The games here are meant to aid them in self expression and other forms of cognitive development.
Class Monitor – Keep Them Learning Through Play
Class Monitor as the very name suggests acts as a monitor to your child’s screen use, keeping it similar to what he gets from a classroom and yet in a more interesting way.
Founded by Vinet Pandey and Vikar Rishishwar in the year 2016, the platform has, since the days of the pandemic been making up for what was lost by the kids away from school
With do-it-yourself kits that keep kids busy and active all day this platform provides various holistic learning experiences so your child is still growing each day, with activities that provide a more real life learning, making study more interesting
Based in Indore, the platform has some efficient teachers to guide your child each day, providing him/her the motivation he/she needs and including you in his learning everyday.
Final Words
And these are just four of the many Ed Tech platforms that you can make use of in encouraging your child to make good use of his free time today.
Think about it. India has about 200 million young children today, our kids who are the future, the pioneers of the world of tomorrow.
Would it be a good thing to see them wasting their precious years on a couch with an addictive game, when the same platform can make better use of helping them grow each day?
Especially not so today, when you have a host of Ed Tech startups doing their best to help our kids grow and improve each day.
So, while we wouldn’t say that it would be a good idea to replace their schooling with these, what we are trying to say is that technology can be used to make childhood more interesting and fruitful today, rather than a mere platform to kill boredom and stop kids from growing today.
