Quarantine Learning for Students and Parents

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The current pandemic situation has led to a tough time for both parents and children. Everyday activities and learning at school have come to a standstill. Yet, instead of sitting idle getting bored and wasting time doing nothing, it seems like a great time or breaks for us all to learn something new or discover the vast oceans of knowledge easily accessible on the internet. It’s right to say that the time for digital India with digital learning is here. As B.B. King said, “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you”, so even the pandemic cannot take learning away from us. Here are some tips for an efficient quarantine learning for students and parents.

So, let’s quickly go to the things needed for the same-

• Time (We have a lot of it)
• PC or Laptop or Mobile with Stable internet connection

Be it pursuing hobbies or a new language, the opportunities for learning are a significant lot. Still, the most crucial part is to remember that it’s a pandemic going on, so focus on mental health & wellbeing as well and in whichever way you are dealing with, remember you are doing a great job! 

Here is the list of opportunities available to learn something new for both the parents and their children-

Learning new subjects or study material of the next class

Various educational institutes like CBSE, ICSE and NCERT have their websites with collection books or study material for all subjects of classes 1st to 12th. Online publications, books or pdfs are available for all courses for subjects like Physics, Chemistry, English, Hindi, civics, geography, etc. on the following websites-

• CBSE E-learning portal- http://cbse.nic.in/ecbse/welcome.html 
• NCERT E-learning portal- http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm 
• BYJU’s e-learning website and the app also available- https://byjus.com/cbse/cbse-books/ 
• https://swayam.gov.in/ 
• http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php 
• http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ 
• https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/user/cecedusat 
• https://www.ndl.gov.in/ 
• https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/ 
• https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ 
• https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ 
• edx.org 
• academicearth.org
• Indiaeducation.net
• Khan Academy
• Coursera
• W3 School
• Merit nation
• Code Academy
• Umang App
• Ted Ed@Home
• Lead School@Home
• Vedantu Learn Live Online 
• National Geographic Kids 
• TeachNext@Home

Learn a new social or life skill 

One can utilise this free time to work on themselves by learning various social and life skills like confidence building, personality development, public speaking, soft skills and other different skills.

The following websites offer a host of soft skills and social skills courses for free-

• udemy.com
• alison.com
• edx.org

Learn a new language

Various apps and websites these days are teaching languages like French, German, Japanese, Spanish, etc. through fun, easy and ways. These websites and apps are mostly free and accessible from anywhere in the world. In today’s dynamic and global society, learning a new language has become more of a necessity and a significant advantage in every field.

You can learn new languages for free at the following websites and apps-

• Duolingo App
• Babbel 
• Busuu
• Mang0 Languages
• Learn a language
• Live Mocha
• Open Culture
• Surface Languages 
• Transparent Language

Learn a new activity or hobby

During this pandemic, people have revisited their long-lost hobbies and various new activities. Students and parent both can choose the following activities which are a great way of fun-filled learning, bonding, teamwork and spending quality time together as a family- 

• Cooking
• Baking
• Dance
• Music
• Art and Craft
• Do-It-Yourself activities (DIYs)
• Science Experiments
• Best out of waste activities

The following websites have e-learning content and resources relating to various hobby activities-

• https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/free-online-events-activities-kids-at-home-coronavirus 
• https://www.hobbyideas.in/diy/best-out-of-waste-ideas
• YouTube videos
• howcast.com
• archive.org
• Crash Course Kids (YouTube channel) 
• Math Games – Brain Training 
• https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities/ 
•  https://smartsocial.com/online-activities/#:~:text=EPIC!%20has%20free%20educational%20books,resources%20for%20grades%20K%2D12. 

As Dr Seuss said- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” We can learn today, so that we can go to places once the pandemic ends, till then keep learning, stay home and remember to wash your hands.