Virtual school brings opportunity for learners amid pandemic

Twin sister Israt Jahan Anisha and Nusrat Jahan Tanisha  can now spontaneously log in facebook, enjoy live classes, take notes as they need, ask questions and submit their home works in the comment box, thanks to the virtual learning that helps thousands of children like them continue their education amid Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

“We’re happy that we are getting our virtual classes as well as our teachers in our house via the digital hubs specially laptop and anroid phone,” said Anisha and Tanisha while sharing their experience about online learning.

The word ‘virtual’ was an imaginary term to them but their father Mawlana Abu Ayub Anasari introduced them the virtual class connecting internet through his mobile device in the time of lockdown period.

Although they are residing in their house of Jamadder Dangi village of Charmadhobdia union under Faridpur Sadar upazila, their school and teachers come to their house magically, ”, said their father Ayub Ansari.

Anisha and Tanisha are the students of class nine of Saroda Sundari Girls’ High School in district town which has remained closed following the instructions imposed by Ministry of Education across the country in the wake of coronavirus for last 18 months but they continued their class on virtual platform.

“Those who don’t have any devices like Android phone can enjoy the classes on TV screen if they wish,” said Anisha and Tanisha.

Faridpur Virtual School (Amar Ghore Amar School -My Home My School) has played a very important role for popularizing online teaching as it connects thousands of students with their teachers and institutions in the pandemic situation of Covid-19.

Apurba Kumar Das, a senior teacher of Faridpur Govt Girls’ High School, has given a new taste of learning and turned back the students in the school with his different endeavor.

As the educational institutions have remained closed due to Covcid-19, the idea of taking virtual classes peeped through the mind of Apurba. Consulting with A2i  officials and experts Apurba got an inspiration and created a page titled ‘Faridpur Online School’ using facebook and invited different teachers and students to be the members of that page.

Apurba started taking live classes using his own phone, whiteboard and marker from his house of Roghunadanpur area in the town. His invitation for learning staying at home encouraged the young learners and the page he created was joined by the interested guardians, students and different teachers.

Apurba continued his class tirelessly at different times of day and night pleading all to be connected with this virtual platform on different subjects.

A total of 7400 people have become the members of the page that has created free learning scope for students from Primary to Masters levels. Later, Das took a training class for other teachers on “How to conduct virtual class using Android phone.