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Different strokes

Different strokes

These are difficult times. Here’s now IIT Kharagpur’s students inside the campus are braving the odds “No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike…” Sometimes, like times such as these, when the hours seem to collapse into one another and the days just roll on, the profound wisdom contained in the words of the famous British painter, John Constable, have trouble seeping in. But we are all bravehearts in our own ways, or so say the students of IIT Kharagpur, many of whom are residing within the campus and…
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A New Era of Schooling

A New Era of Schooling

How is teaching & learning being carried out at IIT Kharagpur's campus schools? Schooling has entered a new era with ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. As contact classrooms have been shut down,  schools across India are reinventing the educational system. Blackboards, benches, workbooks have been replaced by computers, smartphones, video lectures, conferencing applications, assignment modules. There are three schools on the campus upto higher secondary level and one school upto its primary section. The schools have gone digital since March 21, 2020. DAV Model School and Kendriya Vidyalas share the experiences with The Kgp Chronicle. DAV Model School at IIT…
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