Day: May 27, 2022

IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON SCHOOL CHILDREN

Social media has become the most predominant platform to interact with people. The reels that we watch in Instagram or YouTube Shorts all are a par of social media.

School students are more active in these types of platforms. One of the most major impacts that social media has had on teenagers today is how we perform in school. It is one of the most distracting activities of everyday life. Recent experiments at UCLA have shown that nucleus accumbency was very active when teenagers saw that they had received a lot of likes on their photos that would influence to further use Instagram more often.

The risks might be related to how much social media teens use. A 2019 study of more than 6,500 12- to 15-year-olds in the U.S. found that those who spent more than three hours a day using social media might be at heightened risk for mental health problems. Another 2019 study of more than 12,000 13- to 16-year-olds in England found that using social media more than three times a day predicted poor mental health and well-being in teens.

Some other major impacts that social media has had on teenagers is peer pressure and cyber bullying. On any social media site, you can send a direct message to anyone that you want without even having to their phone number or having to follow them. This makes it so easy to cyber bully someone. Peer pressure has increased ever since social media has become popular. Teenagers look at pictures/videos of their peers doing illegal things such as drugs, drinking, etc. 55% of teens tried drugs for the first time because they felt pressured by their friends. 70% of teens who smoke say that they started smoking because their friends smoke or they felt peer pressure to try smoking.

HOW TO PROTECT FROM THIS PLATFORM?

  • Set reasonable limits:
    Talk to your teen about how to avoid letting social media interfere with his or her activities, sleep, meals or homework. Encourage a bedtime routine that avoids electronic media use, and keep cellphones and tablets out of teens’ bedrooms. Set an example by following these rules yourself.
  • Monitor your teen’s accounts:
    Let your teen know that you’ll be regularly checking his or her social media accounts. You might aim to do so once a week or more. Make sure you follow through.
  • Explain what’s not OK:
    Discourage your teen from gossiping, spreading rumors, bullying or damaging someone’s reputation — online or otherwise. Talk to your teen about what is appropriate and safe to share on social media.
  • Encourage face-to-face contact with friends:
    This is particularly important for teens vulnerable to social anxiety disorder.
  • Talk about social media:
    Talk about your own social media habits. Ask your teen how he or she is using social media and how it makes him or her feel. Remind your teen that social media is full of unrealistic images.

Indira Gandhi Shahri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana

The Rajasthan government has come up with the job description under its much-touted Indira Gandhi Shahri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana. Announcing the employment scheme for urban areas on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA.

While MGNREGA assists people in rural areas, there is no such scheme for street vendors and those working at dhabas and restaurants in urban areas.

About:

  • Under the scheme, 100 days of employment per year will be provided to families residing in urban areas.
  • The ratio of cost of material to payment for labour work of “general nature” will be in the ratio of 25:75, while for special works, it will be 75:25.

Eligibility:

  • All those aged between 18 and 60 years and residing within urban body limits are eligible for the scheme, and in special circumstances such as a pandemic or a calamity, migrant labourers may be included.

Significance of Urban Employment Schemes?

  • Ensures social inclusion by strengthening the livelihood base of rural poor.
  • It gives urban residents a statutory right to work and thereby ensures the right to life (Art 21) guaranteed under the Constitution.
  • It provides employment for skilled and unskilled workers among urban youth and addresses the concerns of underemployment and unemployment.
  • Such programmes can bring in much-needed public investment in towns, which, in turn, could boost local demand, improve the quality of urban infrastructure and services, restore urban commons, skill urban youth, and increase the capacity of ULBs.

The Nation’s New Education Policy,2020

In this I want to analyze the NEP’ 2020 in the simplest way possible.

This is India’s 3rd NEP.

  • the first one was in 1968 under Indira Gandhi government
  • the second was in 1986 under Rajiv Gandhi Government
  • In 1992 under PV Narasimha Rao government the NEP was modified.
  • the third one is in 2020

The right to education was drafted under Article 21A in which the children between the age group of 6- 14years should get free and compulsory education.

2014 BJO manifesto – The New Education Policy

It was then when Ms. Smriti Irani became HRD minister in 2015, she created a new committee in which the Chairman was TSR Subramanyam. this committee submited the report on 7th my 2016.

The Objectives of the committee is to:

  1. improve the quality of education
  2. Credibility of education
  3. addressing the gaps in education implementation
  4. On october 2016, The Ministry released the drafts and gave suggestions. but nothing happened as per plan.

After this a new committee was formed in which Dr. K. Kasturirangan former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, made up a team of 9 members and they drafted the National Education Policy 2019 and this was later approved by The union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved and was passed as The New Education Policy 2020 on July 29, 2020.

3 most important changes in the NEP 2020

  • Human Resource development(HRD) ministry was renamed as Ministry of Education.
  • Government proposed that the GDP investment in education to be increased from 1.6% to 6%.
  • focusing on gross enrollment ratio, it will be increased to 50% by 2035.

everything can be done when there will be a dynamic change happens in this regular educational system. Now, that is what happened in which alongside of education, extra curricular activities, interests were given equal priorities. Also, people tend to have multiple interests in which they want to extend their career opportunities. Till 2019, students have the opportunity to either enter into any one of the field of interests like science, Arts, Commerce.

10 yearsage 10-16
2yearsage 16-18
old Academic Structure

5yearsAnganwadi/pre-school- age (3-6)
class 1 and 2 at age (6-8)
3yearsclass 3-5 at age (6-8)
3yearsclass 6-8 at age(11-14)
4yearsclass 9-12 at age (14- 18)
modified/ revised academic structure

Changes in School Education

  • students to learn coding from class 6
  • Mother tongue to be a medium of instruction till 5th grade.
  • Report card will be comprehensive based on skills+ capabilities.

Holistic Undergraduate programme:

  1. flexible curriculum, vocational subjects, Inter- disciplinary combination of subjects- which means till now we have division of backgrounds like commerce, science, arts etc., but from now there will be no division and can choose whatever they want to pursue.

Languages:

  1. offered Sanskrit in every level of education .
  2. other classical languages + literature are also available.

Academic Bank of Credits – which means if a person discontinues or chooses to pursue other background of education, till whatever education or year the person have pursued till that level the academic certification will be provided

Changes for Teachers

  1. NCERT- National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, NCFTE 2021 was created with the help of NCERT
  2. By 2030, for teaching the minimum degree qualification/ 4year integrated B.Ed

the entire objective of NEP is, Universalization of Education Achieving Global standards of Education for which, the students who leaves or graduates will get the knowledge at global reaching.

UGC Norms for Dual & Joint Degrees in India

University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 2nd December, 1953. It became a statutory body by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.

Recently, the UGC has released Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Higher Education Institutions to offer Joint Degree, Dual Degree, and Twinning Programmes Regulations, 2022. 

Under these regulations collaborating institutes will be allowed to offer three kinds of programmes — twinning, joint degrees and dual degrees.

Dual Degree Programmes: The approved amendments include a provision for “dual degree programmes” — both the Indian and foreign institutions will give separate and simultaneous degrees for a course of the same discipline, and at the same level.

Easing Regulation: Indian universities that meet a minimum academic standard will not need UGC’s permission to offer such programmes.

Joint Degrees: Students enrolling for these programmes will have to go abroad to earn credits, but they will not have to seek admission separately while doing so.

In the draft amendments, foreign partner institutions are required to be among the world’s top 1,000 in global rankings.

Dual Degrees: For dual degrees, students will have to complete at least 30% of their course credit at the foreign institution.

  • The degrees awarded by both the Indian and foreign institutions will indicate the credits earned at the respective institutions.
  • At the end of the course, the student will be awarded two degrees, separately and simultaneously, by the Indian and foreign institution.

Twinning Arrangement: A student can study a programme partly in India and partly in a foreign university, but the diploma or degree will be awarded just by the Indian university.

  • Students will have to complete up to 30% of the course’s credits at the foreign institution by means of an exchange programme.

Exception: The new regulations are not applicable to programmes offered online and in the open and distance learning mode.

Significance: The new regulation will prompt Indian students to get a foreign degree and enhance their employability in the international market.