Abhinav wakes up at 8:30 in the morning after a whole night of celebrations
at his brother's marriage. And although the night is gone, his nightmare has
just begun. Soon, with his sleeves left unbuttoned and laces left untied, he
rushes to catch the school bus. Interestingly, right at the beginning of the
1st period when a student is filled to the brim with energy and enthusiasm,
Abhinav is found in a deep blissful slumber at his desk. Needless to say this
does not amuse the teacher at all. Poor Abhinav suffers admonishment meekly.
Now just picture this, the same Abhinav attends the party, wakes
up at the same time, but takes adequate rest, attends all his classes and most
importantly, he enjoys them too. You must be thinking how could that be
possible? This is where the greatest gift of the 21st Century, Technology kicks
in. The remedy to all the problems of education is the introduction of Virtual
Classrooms.
Virtual Classrooms give us unparalleled convenience and
flexibility of the learning hours. You would hardly have to bother about being
inside a real classroom anymore. You can attend your classes from anywhere on
the globe. Not only that, you get to choose who to take your lessons from as you
have a number of experienced world class teachers at your disposal.
Almost in every classroom we find the so called
"backbenchers" who usually find it difficult to comprehend the
teacher at one go. In this case too, virtual classrooms will offer them a
helping hand and haul them out of the shadows of neglect. In this classroom, a
student can always view his lessons again and again until he fully
understands it. The best part of this is that there would be
no scenario in which the teacher would run out of patience. Naturally,
if the learning is delivered to the student at the student's pace, then studies
would never become a burden.
In schools of today, almost 60% of the working time is lost
solving disciplinary issues. But with the implementation of virtual curriculum,
the entire trouble of dealing with the mischief mongers is gone.
Virtual classrooms score over conventional classrooms at another
aspect. In a conventional setup, the good-scoring students are always the
teachers "blue-eyed boys" and enjoy a certain amount of bias of the teacher.
Even if the teacher is the most impartial in his dealings, the stronger
students always enjoy the comfort of being in the teacher's good books. But
very soon the virtual classes would obliterate the the whole question
of discrimination. Each and every student would get equal preference and each
and every student would get equal opportunity. Isn't that what
education is all about??
Our society is changing. A new ERA is rising. One that integrates
the technology of the computers with the dedication of the teachers. This new
form of education opens to us a wide world of possibilities and wipes out the
flaws of the orthodox conventional system. So it wouldn't be wrong to
say that indeed, someday virtual classrooms WILL replace the conventional ones.
And truly when it does, it will be a REVOLUTION!!
