Should technology disrupt classroom learning?

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How to Integrate Learning Assessment and Student Analytics in Every Day Education  By Gumbi Software Private Limited, Bangalore In traditional schooling, delivery of education often tends to be teacher centered - with children expected to remain passive and only listen. Since students at different learning levels sit in the same class, it becomes extremely difficult for teachers to provide targeted instruction to students. The fact is student engagement begins and ends at raised hands, questions asked, or simply maintaining eye contact. Over the years this has been resulting in only selected students being interactive in the class and most students remaining inactive throughout the academic year. When the COVID19 pandemic seized the world, everyone including students were asked to remain at homes. While society began to adjust to this change, students, mostly from private schools un urban India where internet connectivity is available were required to take up online classes. On th...
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ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT/TENSION BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA

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India-China geopolitical relations have always been marked by tension. With a history of border dispute and the 1962 war between the two powers, China has always been keen on acquiring some of the Indian territory at the border. India was not prepared in 1962. Nor it was a power at par with China or one of world’s fastest growing economies at the time. Now, things have changed quite a bit, but still tensions between China and India remain though this has assumed a different dynamic. 



For a very long time, these tensions between the two superpowers were not violent. In 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, when the world was still struggling and recovering from the pandemic, stone pelting started from both sides. Since then, the two nuclear powers have been in constant conflict. The tension now is not just physical as it is the case with every conflict nowadays. It is economical, diplomatic and political as well. This has been so since 2020, when India took steps to weaken China economically by banning 54 Chinese mobile applications, on which major active users were Indians only. The famous Tik Tok, which was the heart and soul of young Indian population, was also banned. It was estimated that $6 billion loss was incurred by China because of India’s ban on TikTok.

India and China have been at loggerheads since the 2020 conflict and the relations between both have nosedived thereafter. To resolve this, 15 rounds of talks have so far been held between the two neighbors though without much positive outcome. Dialogues and exchanges have taken place between the foreign ministers of two countries. Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, said “China and India have encountered "some setbacks" in the bilateral relations in recent years and called for managing their differences over the boundary issue through equal footing consultations for a "fair and equitable" settlement. He also said that some forces have always sought to stoke tensions between China and India. Obviously, he was referring to the US. The Indian external affairs minister S Jaishankar has also commented on the same by saying, “The relations between the two are in a very difficult phase. He said that the state of the border will determine the state of the relationship. When a large country disregards written commitments, I think it's an issue of legitimate concern for the entire international community.”

The current Ukraine-Russia conflict has pushed Asian countries to recharter trade mechanism in order to boost the post-COVID recovery. But still tensions between India and China remain as India now has developed a feeling that the ties between two countries cannot move forward unless Beijing ends its incursion across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There is no argument against the fact that Indian policy makers are not looking at words, but actions. There have been talks but actions were not commensurate to words, so the relations remain the same.

Despite the geopolitical tensions between the two countries, the bilateral trade between the two nations crossed a record $125.6 Billion in 2021. To compare it was just 1.83 billion in 2001. But clearly the distrust is still there as India has closed the door for Chinese 5G companies. The relations between India and China have for long been in the critical zone. This may well improve as talks are being held and China’s foreign minister Wang Yi may be visiting India this month. Both countries would be hoping for positive talks as it would benefit them both economically and in diplomatic terms.

 

REFERENCES

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi-may-visit-india-later-this-month-first-since-galwan-standoff-2825607/amp/1

https://warontherocks.com/2021/10/india-is-not-sitting-on-the-geopolitical-fence/

http://yris.yira.org/comments/4677

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theprint.in/opinion/the-future-of-india-china-relationship-is-now-all-about-the-flux-in-us-china-ties/608958/%3famp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93India_relations

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