The impacts on education are among the most devastating, even though less visible, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 800 million children were affected by school closures around the world and millions are at risk of dropping out. How Kerala used technology to continue to engage all students in learning during this period was the subject of a recent international webinar organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, in which VMFT participated. In his talk, Prof. V.K. Damodaran, President of VMFT, explained Kerala’s early adoption of technology in education as one step in a sustained process of social reform that started with the Kerala Renaissance over a century ago, with all reformers, including Vakkom Moulavi, giving paramount importance to education as the instrument of liberation.
See recording of the meeting posted on the Earth Institute site here ,and on YouTube here
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