Self-study skills and online education

 

There are many problems with the online education system which is now the only option for school education. The only thing children lose   being away from the school physically is the students’' integration with the school and the surrounding environment. Apart from this, there is not much difference between online education and the education offered by the school. In the classroom, the teacher lectures on the subject. It is seldom that teachers recognize the learner diversity and direct the teaching pattern to suit that diversity.  Monitoring the learning teaching process attending to individual needs does not happen to the optimum level. Teaching using audio - visual equipment is also rare.

This  Covid ridden context  is a valuable opportunity to impart self-study skills to the child in an environment where there is no properly conducted online education and no teacher guidance.

Self-study skills

Self-study is the process of listening to a lecture and understanding the facts, reading a book and understanding its content, being sensitive to the environment and understanding what it feels like, and discovering by the student the sources for learning the subjects. Skills are required to master self-study. Online education can be used to impart self-study skills to the students.

Listening skills

Here are some listening skills that can be useful for a student.

 The ability to listen to a discourse and understand the specifics of that discourse,

Ability to understand the essence of a lecture,

The ability to understand the details of a lecture are some of them.

Reading skills

 The ability to read and understand is also a skill to be acquired. The child should be taught how to line things up in a textbook or other source, the different sentence patterns used, the ability to read fast and the ability to read  a text for detail are too important .

Note taking skills

The student is accustomed to writing down what the teacher says. The child is not given the skills to paraphrase a lecture or something written in a book. Graphical notes are quickly embedded in the child's short-term memory. If done, the child can become an independent learner. The ministry of education has planned to launch 6 channels to make online education accessible to all which indeed is a good move. There are two things that the ministry should do prior to launch the channels. First is to train teachers to the online mode. Enriching pupils with self-study skills making use of online platform is the second essential requirement.