Digital Percept

The fast pace of innovations in data and internet driven technologies in past decade has influenced every aspect of our life. Let it be the way we start our day, plan our day, commute, eat, work, connect with people, interact with people, be social, transact and the way we learn new things. Conventional ways of teaching and learning are being infused with digital learning every other day. The way swiftly a classroom environment changing, especially when the technology affluent Gen Z being the student now (Gen Z is the newest generation born between year 1996-2015), it is a time to leave the teaching methods used to teach the Echo Boomers (the generation born between year 1977-94) and start infusing newer teaching and learning techniques based on emerging technologies. Image by Steve Riot from Pixabay The infusion of digital learning in the classrooms can be in the form of tablets or laptops like Chromebooks replacing notebooks resulting in to a paperless classroom experience.

The digital lingo and related ecosystem didn’t existed in many Indian schools & households till April 2020. In recent years few schools took small steps towards Digital Transformation by collecting online admission forms, online payments, using online modules like Google Classrooms to send homework, requesting PPTs from students on occasions to name a few. The primary schooling function in India is offline as the country lacks infrastructure to support the digital transformation process across Schools, Teachers, Parents and Students. The infrastructure deficiency includes technology savvy teachers, robust internet connectivity, and availability of devices with teachers and students, professional apps and sites as an example. Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay From April 2020, as concept of online learning being prominent and unavoidable, all schools across the country have been scheduling classes on a daily basis. All started with swift actions like providing feedback forms to p

The primary schooling function in India is offline as the country lacks infrastructure to support the digital transformation process across Schools, Teachers, Parents and Students. The infrastructure deficiency includes technology savvy teachers, robust internet connectivity, and availability of devices with teachers and students, professional apps and sites as an example. After a nationwide lockdown declared by Government of India in March 2020, more than 15 lakh institutions were closed and about 25 crore of school students were not able to go to their schools. From April 2020, as concept of online learning being necessary and unavoidable, all schools across the country have been scheduling classes on a daily basis. All started with swift actions like providing feedback forms to parents to conducting weekly reviews, the situation has paved way for Digital Transformation in Indian education system. Image by Jagrit Parajuli from Pixabay Story of Teachers, one of the COVID19 wo

After COVID19 outbreak several countries across globe declared long term total lockdowns including closure of industries, businesses, educational institutions and domestic and international travel. In India, Government of India declared a nationwide lockdown from March 2020, which resulted in closure of more than 15 lakh educational institutions and about 25 crore of school students were not able to go to their schools. The fun filled life as we know just changed in few days. Due to closure of Schools overnight, students were freed from schools but remained confined to their homes, and parents who were too forced to work from home had to struggle with keeping children productive at home. During trauma of lockdown, while maintaining high level hygiene, using hand and surface sanitizers and tracking the spread of the virus via loud increasing counters on news channels, no one realized the sudden stress on that often neglected group, our Teachers. Looking at long repeated lockdowns,

  The Travel and Tourism industry across the world celebrated 27 th September as World Tourism day. Since its initiation in 1980, the purpose of this day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism in everyone’s life and how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide. Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay In 2020, the day was celebrated amid a global crisis caused by COVID19 which has brought the world to a standstill. It is ironical that while we celebrate this day, COVID19 has made our families confined to home, avoid socializing with friends, avoid a long drive, avoid having a nice dinner with family, avoid a spa session, the list is endless. Everything that hospitality industry stands for and caters to has been constrained by the pandemic. The COVID19 outbreak, lockdowns and life After COVID19 outbreak several countries across globe declared long term total lockdowns including closure of industries, businesses, educational institutions and domest

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a buzzword for recent years and it has impacted many business sectors including banking, agriculture, manufacturing and retail, many sectors have benefited by Artificial Intelligence. The concept of artificial intelligence has existed earlier, evolved over the years and has no straightforward definition. We invented computers to execute tasks and programming languages to define tasks. AI is an evolved technique to train a machine to take certain decisions and execute tasks.   Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay  Basically AI refers to a mechanism performing tasks on behalf of human beings that would normally require human intelligence to carry out. The tasks could be learning instructions, processing data, taking decisions, or listening and interpreting communication. Understanding AI with real life examples When we talk about AI, we talk about automation, where processes are executed with little or no human involvement. And the application of AI can b