Edging out the traditional 'chalk-and-talk' method of teaching, schools had forayed into tech-based classrooms with smartboards and more.
Neighbourhood tuition teachers in Bengaluru are now jumping into the fray, using the tablet as an interactive, content-rich platform to teach, monitor and assess a child's learning.
About 2,000 city students are now part of a unique system that links their curriculum and daily tuition classes with assessment by tutors and monitoring by parents. The tool that makes this interactivity possible:
A Wi-Fi enabled affordable Android tablet, fed by content loaded by education startup, Vidyanext. The students -- from ICSE, CBSE and State Grades 4 to 11-- take lessons in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology from tutors located at a 10-minute walk from their homes.
This proximity of the students, tutors and parents is what makes the network work, explains former Microsoft employee Pradeep Singh, who started Vidyanext with American serial entrepreneur, Will Poole.
How does the tablet-based learning exactly work? A tutor on the Vidyanext platform, Shiv Kumar explains:"For 40 years, I took tuititions the normal way: Using the textbooks, asking contextual questions and assessing. But tablet-based tutoring has brought in interactive videos to simplify concepts. Through the tablet, students could also clear doubts any time."
Interactive learning
They could post questions and expect responses quickly, view video lessons multiple times to understand concepts better. "Today, most students are computer-savvy from a very young age. They love to use tablets. Their involvement in assignments is voluntary unlike before," says Kumar.
Students do not always understand a concept in the first instance, points out Indumathi, another tutor. "Teachers cannot repeat classes due to time constraints. The videos, worksheets, quizzes and flashcards built into the tablet content addresses this issue," she elaborates.
Continuous assessment of a student gets simpler when his / her performance in tests, problem-solving notes and other jottings are uploaded. Teachers and parents could then access this data on the tablet through a secure login. "Even if a tutor quits, parents can search for another in their neighbourhood through the system. The new tutor can access all the records of the chapters completed, tests done and more," says the startup founder, Pradeep Singh.
Over 1,100 retired teachers, ex-army officials, housewives and college students are part of the tutor network, launched in Bengaluru last year.
Neighbourhood tuition teachers in Bengaluru are now jumping into the fray, using the tablet as an interactive, content-rich platform to teach, monitor and assess a child's learning.
About 2,000 city students are now part of a unique system that links their curriculum and daily tuition classes with assessment by tutors and monitoring by parents. The tool that makes this interactivity possible:
A Wi-Fi enabled affordable Android tablet, fed by content loaded by education startup, Vidyanext. The students -- from ICSE, CBSE and State Grades 4 to 11-- take lessons in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology from tutors located at a 10-minute walk from their homes.
This proximity of the students, tutors and parents is what makes the network work, explains former Microsoft employee Pradeep Singh, who started Vidyanext with American serial entrepreneur, Will Poole.
How does the tablet-based learning exactly work? A tutor on the Vidyanext platform, Shiv Kumar explains:"For 40 years, I took tuititions the normal way: Using the textbooks, asking contextual questions and assessing. But tablet-based tutoring has brought in interactive videos to simplify concepts. Through the tablet, students could also clear doubts any time."
Interactive learning
They could post questions and expect responses quickly, view video lessons multiple times to understand concepts better. "Today, most students are computer-savvy from a very young age. They love to use tablets. Their involvement in assignments is voluntary unlike before," says Kumar.
Students do not always understand a concept in the first instance, points out Indumathi, another tutor. "Teachers cannot repeat classes due to time constraints. The videos, worksheets, quizzes and flashcards built into the tablet content addresses this issue," she elaborates.
Continuous assessment of a student gets simpler when his / her performance in tests, problem-solving notes and other jottings are uploaded. Teachers and parents could then access this data on the tablet through a secure login. "Even if a tutor quits, parents can search for another in their neighbourhood through the system. The new tutor can access all the records of the chapters completed, tests done and more," says the startup founder, Pradeep Singh.
Over 1,100 retired teachers, ex-army officials, housewives and college students are part of the tutor network, launched in Bengaluru last year.
Edging out the traditional 'chalk-and-talk’ method of teaching, schools had forayed into tech-based classrooms with smartboards and more.
Neighbourhood tuition teachers in Bengaluru are now jumping into the fray, using the tablet as an interactive, content-rich platform to teach, monitor and assess a child’s learning.
About 2,000 city students are now part of a unique system that links their curriculum and daily tuition classes with assessment by tutors and monitoring by parents. The tool that makes this interactivity possible:
A Wi-Fi enabled affordable Android tablet, fed by content loaded by education startup, Vidyanext. The students -- from ICSE, CBSE and State Grades 4 to 11-- take lessons in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology from tutors located at a 10-minute walk from their homes.
This proximity of the students, tutors and parents is what makes the network work, explains former Microsoft employee Pradeep Singh, who started Vidyanext with American serial entrepreneur, Will Poole.
How does the tablet-based learning exactly work? A tutor on the Vidyanext platform, Shiv Kumar explains: "For 40 years, I took tuititions the normal way: Using the textbooks, asking contextual questions and assessing. But tablet-based tutoring has brought in interactive videos to simplify concepts. Through the tablet, students could also clear doubts any time.”
Interactive learning
They could post questions and expect responses quickly, view video lessons multiple times to understand concepts better. "Today, most students are computer-savvy from a very young age. They love to use tablets. Their involvement in assignments is voluntary unlike before,” says Kumar.
Students do not always understand a concept in the first instance, points out Indumathi, another tutor. "Teachers cannot repeat classes due to time constraints. The videos, worksheets, quizzes and flashcards built into the tablet content addresses this issue,” she elaborates.
Continuous assessment of a student gets simpler when his / her performance in tests, problem-solving notes and other jottings are uploaded. Teachers and parents could then access this data on the tablet through a secure login. "Even if a tutor quits, parents can search for another in their neighbourhood through the system. The new tutor can access all the records of the chapters completed, tests done and more,” says the startup founder, Pradeep Singh.
Over 1,100 retired teachers, ex-army officials, housewives and college students are part of the tutor network, launched in Bengaluru last year.
Neighbourhood tuition teachers in Bengaluru are now jumping into the fray, using the tablet as an interactive, content-rich platform to teach, monitor and assess a child’s learning.
About 2,000 city students are now part of a unique system that links their curriculum and daily tuition classes with assessment by tutors and monitoring by parents. The tool that makes this interactivity possible:
A Wi-Fi enabled affordable Android tablet, fed by content loaded by education startup, Vidyanext. The students -- from ICSE, CBSE and State Grades 4 to 11-- take lessons in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology from tutors located at a 10-minute walk from their homes.
This proximity of the students, tutors and parents is what makes the network work, explains former Microsoft employee Pradeep Singh, who started Vidyanext with American serial entrepreneur, Will Poole.
How does the tablet-based learning exactly work? A tutor on the Vidyanext platform, Shiv Kumar explains: "For 40 years, I took tuititions the normal way: Using the textbooks, asking contextual questions and assessing. But tablet-based tutoring has brought in interactive videos to simplify concepts. Through the tablet, students could also clear doubts any time.”
Interactive learning
They could post questions and expect responses quickly, view video lessons multiple times to understand concepts better. "Today, most students are computer-savvy from a very young age. They love to use tablets. Their involvement in assignments is voluntary unlike before,” says Kumar.
Students do not always understand a concept in the first instance, points out Indumathi, another tutor. "Teachers cannot repeat classes due to time constraints. The videos, worksheets, quizzes and flashcards built into the tablet content addresses this issue,” she elaborates.
Continuous assessment of a student gets simpler when his / her performance in tests, problem-solving notes and other jottings are uploaded. Teachers and parents could then access this data on the tablet through a secure login. "Even if a tutor quits, parents can search for another in their neighbourhood through the system. The new tutor can access all the records of the chapters completed, tests done and more,” says the startup founder, Pradeep Singh.
Over 1,100 retired teachers, ex-army officials, housewives and college students are part of the tutor network, launched in Bengaluru last year.