It is 11 am, time for “TV serial-type” lessons inside the Project Girls High School at Katoria in Bihar’s Banka district. Around 85 students of Class 10 are crammed in a room, four girls to a bench, but no one’s complaining. On a 40-inch screen plays a video, in Hindi, on photosynthesis. The nodal teacher, Manoj Kumar Choubey, pauses the video at intervals to explain finer points before moving on. At the end of 10 minutes, Choubey asks, “Koi sawaal (Any questions)?” and a few hands go up.
The Katoria school holds these smart classes as part of ‘Banka Unnayan’, a programme introduced last August in five schools for Class 10 students and which has now been expanded to all 143 senior secondary government schools in the district. Since August this year, the programme has been expanded to Class 9 as well.
As classrooms across the country employ smart lessons and mobile phone-based learning, what makes this experiment unique are the challenges.
Read more of this in a report by Santosh Singh published in The Indian Express....
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