Episode 22: The Future Unplugged- Online Learning and Rural India

On a hot day in June, when the children of Dadariya village might typically be found attending school, Bureau Chief Meera Devi instead found groups of them scattered outside their homes and in the fields. Some were grazing cows and goats, others loafed about in a bamboo grove, and a few boys in school uniform played in front of a house, shuffling packs of homemade cards. When Meera asked, most of them had never heard of online learning.    Kids playing cards in their school uniforms in Banda district. Less than ten kilometres from the district headquarters at Banda, Dadariya is a mostly farming community of around a thousand people, over half of whom come from scheduled caste backgrounds. The