Our ancestors would have blinked their eyes in utmost surprise if they had been told about the idea/ discovery of Digitalized Education System. Since time immemorial, education has been identified with a school in tall buildings, classrooms with fifty odd students seated in close proximity, a blackboard and a teacher with a piece of chalk held in her fingers. We could no other way imagine ourselves getting educated and holding degrees any other way except by travelling from homes to those school buildings in a yellow school bus, transporting hundreds like us.
Who would have thought that there will be a time in an era where classrooms will be on screen of desktops and learning will be merely a click away? This generation has always been the fortunate one for all the technical boons that they have. They have the luxury to avail all possible services by just tapping on their phones or other gadgets. Getting education online is one such luxury.
However, digital education is no more a luxury but a necessity while the world is clouded over with a grave pandemic called, Covid-19. The genesis of this dreadful virus is less of a concern as compared to the means of survival in its times. The fatality and uncertain treatment of this disease has led to mayhem all over the world. Governments of developed countries too are in a state of haywire while looking for the cure to this life snatcher. As a result, consecutive lockdowns are being imposed in various countries and India has been supportive of them since the very outbreak of this virus.
In a situation like this, where businesses are collapsing and economies crashing, education also could have taken a step back, unaware of its where to walk in the darkness of this pandemic. Fortunately, we are in an era where technology is at its peak of advancement and we have the opportunity to continue learning even by being at home in quarantine. Decades ago, this would have sounded like a farce, years ago, it would have turned into an idea of unnecessary luxury but today it has taken the shape of a need. Education couldn’t have stood strong had it not been digitalized.
Innumerable ways are surrendering in this time, but I truly hope that lamp of education lights bright and never falls dim, irrespective of the period we are in. As they say, learning must never succumb in any stage of life. The future of Digitalized Education is here!
