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]]>However, the lack of student access to technology at home has emerged as a roadblock for student learning.
According to Provincial Education Directorate Director Chandra Prasad Luintel, only 30% of students in the Bagmati Province have access to the internet. Only 12 out of 600 school students have cell phones.
Though 75% of the population has access to the internet, 85% to the radio and 72% to television, access of students to such devices is nominal.
“Poor internet connectivity and students’ lack of access to phones have created difficulties to run the classes,” said Luintel.
He added that different policies should be adopted to continue teaching-learning activities for students having access to the internet as well as those not having internet access.
To give continuity to learning activities through alternative systems, the Education Ministry has directed the schools to implement the ‘Student Learning Facilitation Guideline, 2020 through Alternative System’ from August 15.
Even the Curriculum Development Centre has started working to grant recognition to alternative learning methods for the current academic session. However, learning through alternative systems seems to be impractical during the ongoing crisis.
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]]>The World Wide Web’s invention dates back to March 12, 1989 when a British scientist
Tim Berners-Lee, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), made a proposal for an information management system.
The Story Behind ‘WWW’
“This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system,” reads a statement from Lee’s ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ made in 1989.
And, the response he received from his boss was ‘Vague, but exciting’!
That did not stop Lee!
Tim Berners Lee: Information Management Proposal Flow Chart
He moved on to develop a flow chart depicting his proposal’s working model with HTML language, HTTP application and WorldWideWeb.app, showing the world the first ‘Web Browser’ and a ‘Page Editor!
Finally on August 06, 1991, the ‘WWW’ woke up the world by emerging out to be ‘publicly-available’.
Welcoming the world to the web, its creator Lee posted a short summary of his project on the ‘alt.hypertext’ newsgroup giving birth to the next-gen technology ‘World Wide Web’.
What Next is the ‘Internet Trend’
Today’s ‘Internet’, as a global network of computers, emerged from the World Wide Web that was just a common online application using ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for navigation between web pages.
The ‘Internet’ saga began in April 1993, the year ‘WWW’ started becoming popular with the advent of Mosaic- the first search engine that revolutionized ‘WWW’.
Then followed Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and more….
Eventually, the number of internet users saw a drastic rise from some millions in 1990s to more than 400 million people in 2000.
Then began the rise of wireless internet, driven by advanced algorithms that are today ruling the ‘kingdom of information’ making information availability easier than ever at just finger tips through ‘search queries’.
What’s Future? The ‘WWW Creator’ Cautions!
Speaking to media on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of WWW, Lee appealed to internet users to have ‘complete control’ on their online data.
“You should have complete control of your data. It’s not oil…,” Lee said on March 12, 2019.
He criticized today’s trend of commodifying user’s personal information and informed that he is on a mission to protect his invention from the range of challenges such as increasingly-dominating online life involving data thefts and misinformation.
On one side appreciating the new opportunities that evolved out of the trend, Lee also pointed at the negative sides of it! #BetterWeb #SafeWeb
“It has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice.. to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crimes easily… If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web,” Lee tweeted. #ForTheWeb #Web30
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]]>This trend, basically driven by changing consumer buying tendencies and increasing disposable incomes, went to the next level with the mobile revolution.
Now, you don’t have to walk all the way to buy groceries, book tickets, shop or any purpose. Mobiles brought the things at your fingertips. A single screen touch makes a lot of difference.
This is the trend in common across the world. Mobile has become a basic criterion among public, irrespective of any society and living standards, globally.
And, Nepal is one country that is most-spoken about today when it comes to increasing mobile revolution and skyrocketing number of internet users.
“Recent statistics show Nepal has 38 million phone subscribers as of 2017.“
Advantages are always followed by disadvantages. This is a basic phenomenon in every process. Same is the case with mobiles!
Some effective ways one can adopt for effective utilization of the Smart Phone & Internet Trend:
1) Choosing Rights Apps: You may have ‘N’ number of free/paid applications on your mobile store. But choosing a right one is important. Figure out what you require & what exactly works for you!
2) Safe Browsing: Data on mobile is one boon that we have to find anything on internet. But, unsafe browsing can land you in problems. Ensure you access right sites and is not carried away by diverting notifications on the screen that can be in the form of ads, pop-ups, videos, etc.
3) Beware of cyberthreats: If you an ardent online shopper, then you should be very aware of what you shop online. Fraudulent activities could be searching for you! Beware of what you pay for and the online platforms you use for payments. Ensure you disable options like ‘save password’, etc.!
4) SMS and Calls: Having a mobile in hand means being open to calls and messages of any type. You might be receiving irrelevant messages or calls asking you about your confidential information. Ignoring them sometimes might not solve the problem. Often, you might have to take a step further to report about such irrelevant notifications to customer care, who may guide you further.
5) Notes & Calendar: With mobile in hand, you don’t need to carry any extra burden of remembering things, which we often forget in busy schedules. Make the best utilization of ‘notes & calendar’ feature of your mobile to save your quick notes, special events, many more!
6) eLearning: Your smart phone can be your library. Entertainment apart, your smart phone can also be a place where you store you study materials and read them whenever you wish to. So, what are you waiting for? Carry your walking library!
7) Work: Given the fact that your smart phone accompanies you all the time, why can’t it be your work-place as well? Yes, it can! Today’s app development driven by cloud technology has made it easier making all the things available over the network. The only thing you need is a platform for those apps to work on. A smart phone in hand with good features can help you out, as a mini-computer.
List not exhaustive! There are many such advantages that the smart phone & internet trend offer you. It’s all what and how you make use of them!
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