Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249828 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ICT India Working Paper No. 39
Publisher: 
Columbia University, Earth Institute, Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), New York, NY
Abstract: 
The COVID-19 health crisis has presented humans with unprecedented health, socioeconomic and human rights challenges. Nearly all countries around the world have responded to this public health crisis with sweeping measures including lockdowns and school closures. The pandemic has induced a ripple effect of transformation across sectors and daily life. Educational communities have made united efforts to maintain learning during this period through remote and blended schooling. This has raised demands for accelerating universal access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools like high-speed internet, devices, apps, and online teaching and learning platforms, and for adapting teacher skills for remote teaching and supporting learners' social emotional needs during a difficult period, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds. These immediate requirements of adapting to remote learning by students, teachers, families, and policymakers have created an opportunity to figure out how the lessons learned from this remote learning experience can help improve education over the long-term, using technology, engaging families, and integrating social emotional learning in new ways. Our team has been working toward these aims with the development of a customizable Mobile Application (Literacy Everywhere) for teaching early literacy in local languages that support learners, educators, and families in building foundational literacy skills, and by exploring how to better support teachers to take care of their and their student's social emotional well-being.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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