Emotional well-being of students learning from home Theme: Life In Lockdown "What if w e are in a lockdow n situation for more than a year?" Date and Place: May 2020, Bengaluru Team: Legacy Leavers
Team Name : Utkarsh Chaturvedi Name : Rahul Dudeja Name : Saurabh Kumar Profile Profile Profile Experience Designer Technologist Digital Designer Photo Photo Photo User Experience Design Project Lead User Research Name : Priyanka Gangwal Profile Design Researcher Photo Design Strategy MENTOR’s Name Profile Sunit Sharma Photo
Lockdown wn Scenario What is the long term impact of teaching and learning from home on school going children going to be like? The need for social distancing has created new challenges for school going children as young as 3 years old - reduced socialising with their classmates, decrease in outdoor play times, increased screen time, managing REPRESENTATIVE working hours and many more. Teachers too are missing IMAGE FOR THE LOCKDOWN out on getting instant emotive feedbacks from their students SCENARIO YOU WOULD LIKE TO while teaching which would help them enhance their WORK ON approach and teaching methods. Prolonged isolation and increased screen time is expected to impact children's emotional well being in the coming months. The lockdown crisis is making schools contemplate on opportunities to usher in a new era of learning, one that is based on the fundamental principles of schooling — care, concern, and compassion. How might students communicate their feelings effectively to their teachers who they are not able to meet physically anymore for the next academic year?
Problem m Identified Problem description How should students taking online classes their schools have arranged for the academic year 2020-21 get an opportunity to realise and communicate their emotions? How can their teachers, friends and parents know what they are going through and help them feel good and motivated whenever needed? How can they socialise with their classmates that imitates the fun they earlier had in class? Why is it urgent? Nearly 321 million Indian children were asked to stay home. Ten weeks later, they remain away from classrooms and have been advised online or distance learning. Of the said population, 12.5% of the households of students in India (27% in urban areas and 5% in rural areas) have internet access at home and are able to learn online. Digital education tools being used by 11% of households include - desktop computers, laptops, notebooks, netbooks, palmtops or tablets. 24% of households use smartphones.
Target User Persona Demographics Profile Income : Both his parents work in the IT sector and are currently Umang Sharma, Male. 6 years old. Class 1 student working from home full time. of Delhi Public School, Bengaluru South. Lives at L&T apartment in JP Nagar with his nuclear family Education : Umang completed his KG education so far from the including his mother and father. same school he's at now . Feelings Pain points Values & Goals: He wishes to continue schooling through online Lack of non-academic activities in online classes makes the classes learning process mundane. Worries: He feels bad being uncertain about when he can start school again and wishes to connect with his teachers and friends as usual. He Monotony and boredom at home. misses his friends and feels lonely as his parents are mostly busy through the day. Reduced interaction with people from school which was like Influences: His school mates his second home.
Post the pandemi mic lockdown wn What happens to the problem identified in the long run? Increasing pressure and expectations from children in terms of above average academic performances, taking additional study classes, doing well in non-academic fields, hectic lifestyles, etc have increased anxiety and stress common among Indian children. The topic of empowering teachers with the knowledge and means to take care of school children’s emotional well -being has been gaining immense attention in recent times. New Delhi government's ‘Happiness Curriculum’ scheme launched across 1,030 government schools in 2018, has been hailed as a major school education reform in the country. Increasing stress levels in children have made a handful of schools incorporate emotional well-being including activities, workshops or other means in one form or another in their curriculums. We hence believe the solution that we design for the UMO challenge has scope beyond the pandemic crisis and can be modified/adapted into both a digital/physical experience once schools reopen.
Wh Why is it necessary? Relevance of children's emotional well-being Following their education, when they venture into adulthood, they will be required to work alongside people on different emotional spectrums. Being equipped with handling emotions, empathy, and learning to navigate themselves through different situations become critical then.
Reference links ● https://www.livemint.com/news/india/lockdown-has-put-321-million-indian-children-out-of-school-widened-learning-gaps- 11590137598404.html ● https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covid-19-lockdown-amid-e-learning-push-parents-wary-as-children-s-screen-time- increases/story-ejsLGZz5EiZCLxjThu2H3M.html ● https://scroll.in/article/960939/indian-education-cant-go-online-only-8-of-homes-with-school-children-have-computer-with-net-link ● https://theprint.in/opinion/who-goes-online-to-study-in-covid-times-12-5-homes-of-indian-students-have-internet-access/398636/ ● http://sarvasumana.in/files/9.pdf ● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/parenting/toddler-year-and-beyond/here-is-how-you-can-find-out-if-your-child-is- stressed/articleshow/66087800.cms ● https://www.thehindu.com/education/happy-classes/article31126290.ece ● https://yourstory.com/2018/04/light-up-childrens-emotional-intelligence-delhi ● https://www.educationtimes.com/article/editors-pick/74029587/Portal-Exclusive-Did-you-know-emotional-intelligence-is-as-vital-as- IQ-in-a-childs-development ● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/edutrends-india/re-imagining-schooling-post-lockdown/
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Explorations We first started by listing multiple lockdown problem areas and potential solutions addressing them collaboratively using Miro. Concept brainstorming board The finalised problem area of well-being of students studying from home was selected after weighing out all concepts on parameters of impact, viability, practicality, durability and degree of innovation. Potential concepts
Design Process Secondary desk research The design process followed is represented on the right. Buiildng research hypothesis We inititated the design process by looking into existing efforts made across the country to maintain well-being of students during the lockdown and otherwise. The desk research was Primary research followed by building a hypothesis and conducting primary research. After completing the research, we ideated on possible solutions, Insights and observations gathering conceptualised and prototyped one of the ideas. Brainstorming followed by conceptualising a solution Final prototyping
Secondary Research Some of the existing works done towards emotional well-being of students are listed below. Government efforts New Delhi governments’ ‘Happiness Curriculum’ scheme launched across 1,030 government schools in 2018, has been hailed as a major school education reform in the country. Image Source Source : The Hindu Space design A boarding school in Chennai called 'Riverbend' is all set to prioritise personal happiness and emotional intelligenceover grades by ditching the age-old concept of a 'traditional classroom' and giving way to concepts like ideation laboratory or a meditation room. Source : Indiatvnews Image Source
NGO efforts Founded in 2017, LightUp engages with students and conducts teacher training programmes and parent sensitisation sessionsto contribute to a “better” child-parent-teacher microcosm and facilitate Image Source higher academic achievements. Source : Yourstory Other mediums A number of apps, board games and journals are available to choose from. They enable kids in getting introduced to different kinds of emotions, track them and learn to bring shifts in them too. Image Source Source : cbc
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