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How will a student be able to reproduce the concepts in textual manner while giving exams, upon listening only to videos. But, the only issue that we face is that videos were created only for a few concepts and not for entire lessons,” T Arulanantham of Tamil Nadu high and higher secondary teachers’ association said.With videos, students can listen to it numerous times until they clearly understand it, while a teacher would not be able to spare much time to explain same doubts during the class hours as they would have to move on to next chapter, he added.“The video lessons would definitely be useful in understanding difficult concepts, but it should not replace the textbooks completely. How will they be able to learn the spelling of words without reading and writing habits,” district president of Tamil Nadu Post Graduate Teachers Association GR Chentooran questioned.Meanwhile, PB Prince Gajendra Babu, an educationist, said the video lessons should only be used in addition to reading and it should never be used as a tool to replace teacher as nothing would match the live interaction between teacher and students.The government should take steps to appoint a teacher per subject per class in all the government schools and ensure that every student was given equitable access to all its initiatives, he added. Also, concepts which are considered as difficult by the students, were made into videos to unwrap its complexity,” the official added.The video lessons in turn has done magic in the schools as most of the students who were difficult to find in classrooms, were not just found on regular basis, but also noticed paying keen attention to the lessons, said a government schoolteacher on condition of anonymity.A teacher, who teachers Mathematics, said most of the problems which, in general, students would struggle to understand were solved, within matter of time as the videos explain it with pictorial representations and sound effects.“Teaching the students to pronounce difficult words has become a fun task now for both students and teachers. Embracing technology to evoke interest among students, the school education department has gradually started to introduce video lessons in the classrooms of government schools across the state.While the teachers welcome the innovation wholeheartedly as it does magic in schools, experts opine that video lessons could be used only in addition to classroom learning.Initially, the department had embedded QR code in the textbooks for classes I, VI, IX and XI – syllabus was revamped in this academic year – and each lesson had at least three QR codes which upon scanning would take you to video lessons of that lesson, explained an official from the department who is involved in the process.The department also has a YouTube channel with 1.18 lakh subscribers and is planning to launch a 24-hour free satellite education channel, said the official.“The basic idea is to evoke interest among the students and to make them attend classes regularly..