{"id":71734,"date":"2020-08-06T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71734"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:28:51","slug":"pandemic-turns-smartphones-from-luxury-to-must-have-as-indias-schools-go-online-srivastava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/08\/06\/pandemic-turns-smartphones-from-luxury-to-must-have-as-indias-schools-go-online-srivastava\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India&#8217;s schools go online [Srivastava]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20200728142400-monmo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India&#8217;s schools go online<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from news.trust.org by Roli Srivastava<br \/>\n<em>Smartphones help classes continue as schools remain closed, but the poorest families are struggling to keep up<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">India is the world&#8217;s second-biggest smartphone market after China, and nearly half of the country&#8217;s almost one billion mobile users already have a phone with internet access.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWith no clear sign of schools reopening soon, internet access has become a must for children to follow classes, prompting more low-income families to scrape together the money to buy a cheap or second-hand smartphone for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Customised lessons for first to 12th grade students will be aired on television and radio in a &#8220;one class-one channel&#8221; initiative planned by the federal human resource department.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India&#8217;s schools go online &#8212; from news.trust.org by Roli Srivastava Smartphones help classes continue as schools remain closed, but the poorest families are struggling to keep up Excerpts: India is the world&#8217;s second-biggest smartphone market after China, and nearly half of the country&#8217;s almost one billion mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,286,343,32,98,359,458,14,245,62,133,219,560,309,201,330,836,480,293,66,212,40,48,466,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-education-technology","category-elearning","category-health","category-india","category-mobile-learning","category-mobile-technologies","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-parents-guardians","category-platforms","category-policy","category-political-science","category-remote-teaching-learning","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-telecommunications","category-television","category-tvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71738,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734\/revisions\/71738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}