The requirement for taking in and educating from anyplace won’t stop even after the Covid-19 pandemic, reaches a conclusion, says Google’s India conceived CEO Sundar Pichai, affirming that there is an “incredible” opportunity to re-imagine learning about what comes next. Google on Wednesday unveiled more than 50 new software tools aimed at remote learning, as teachers and students continue to congregate in visual classrooms during the Covid-19 epidemic.
“The need for learning and teaching from anywhere will never end, even if the epidemic ends. We have a wonderful opportunity to reimagine about learning for what comes next. “That is the motivation behind why a year ago we made learning and training a formal focus area,” said Sundar Pichai. He also said the company’s main goal was to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful worldwide.
“The two are very connected. Learning is what makes useful information and what makes people able to use their knowledge and make things better for themselves, their families and their communities,” he said. As indicated by Google, 170 million understudies and teachers use Google Workspace for Education worldwide to team up, make, and convey.
As of June 2020, 140 million were utilizing the G Suite for Education. Today, Google Classroom assists more than 150 million students, teachers and school leaders worldwide, to teach and learn – up from 40 million last year. Ben Gomes, senior vice president of Google’s Learning and Education, said the technology allows us to provide more tools, more resources, help teach and enable us to learn more.
“Regardless of what is the background, everybody can and ought to approach incredible learning encounters and the objective is to assist individuals with changing themselves, to help them and acknowledge and see their maximum capacity,” he said. The Covid-19 scourge keeps on obscuring the lines among home and study hall, and it takes everybody, instructors, guardians, more distant families cooperating to overcome the school day, Gomes said. This challenge is also compounded by inequitable access to devices, poor communication, and sometimes digital skills required to use all the tools, he added.
“So, we wanted to help meet the urgent need of the moment. While our goal has not changed, everything has been quick and cleared now, we focused on our work across Google, where we thought it would add value, whether it was learning for school, learning for a job or learning for life. This has never been a higher priority than it is currently,” he said. ” Because of the nineties, learning is going through a major change today. To make learning more possible, we want to use technological advances to help meet your changing needs,” Gomes said. Avni Shah, Google’s vice president of Education, said “the last year had shifted from the chaos of finding and adapting to births from unexpected and tragic circumstances to an opportunity to think about what education could be”, stated Gomes.
