Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, digital learning has become very popular. All school-going students and college university scholars are engaging themselves through online media platforms to increase their skills, knowledge and education level. It is argued that classroom teaching is irreplaceable with the digital education mode, although digital education came with a solution to carry forward educational activities in these conditions. Digital education is praised that it makes the education system effective and efficient as compared with the traditional education system. Thus, the Indian education system is going through a ‘knife-edge equilibrium’ of the transition phase. This research paper tries to answer the questions, i.e. socialization takes place through the real world or the virtual world socialization takes place? Is digital socialization is against cognitive development in the real world? Is the digital world socialization is dominating real-world socialization? Is there a functional correlation between real-world socialization and virtual socialization? © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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