The following blog post analyses the methods, motifs and messages within the excerpt from the book Lost Spring, Stories of Stolen Childhood by Indian-American author Anees Jung. The Lost Spring employs personal narratives and interactions from Jung's experiences in rural Indian communities to reflect light upon the grinding poverty and practices which sentence innocent children to a life of persistent exploitation. Through the course of the excerpt, I was inundated by the unassuming but profound, intimate and reflective anecdotes which etched my present perspective on economic unevenness. The excerpt commences with Jung's brush with Saheb, who is described as chafing through a garbage dump without any apparent rationale. She creates this unnerving backdrop to further the implication of her ensuing conversation with Saheb. Jung's modest inquiry "If I start a school, will you come?" is matched by Saheb's vigorous affirmation. However, these are contrasted by the...
With a large portion of schools having moved to online based learning through platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, students are required to grasp concepts in a one-dimensional online medium as opposed to a constructive and collaborative class environment. Being a student during the pandemic, I have first hand experience with the mundane manner of teaching- and why we need to augment this with Artificial Intelligence algorithms. In a classroom, teachers can somehow manage to personalise some parts of learning or pay attention to weak students. However, in an online medium, with all the latency issues and network constraints, also moving in a general pace can be tough. Therefore for online learning,AI can be key, by providing a personalised learning path for the students. Using algorithms like NLP ( Natural Language Processing ), the online class can be transcribed according to the student's intellectual levels. AI, in this case, can make a specific-tailored learning path ...