Education during covid -19 pandemic crisis
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Explanation:
Except for some prescient people like Bill Gates, the coronavirus pandemic caught most of the world by surprise. It has been different from other crises in two ways – 1. Unlike wars, even world wars, recessions and natural calamities, it has affected everyone without exception and 2. it has completely upended daily routines at homes.
It is the latter that has thrown a lot of schedules off. Yes, children stay at home during school holidays – but then planned outings and visits are possible and school is off. Now, parents and schools are acutely aware than children’s learning has to somehow continue through all this uncertainty. As somebody said you cannot build a full-fledged emergency response system during the emergency but that is what the education sector is quietly trying to do today!
This reflects in the sharply increased use of the internet by children. Primary and secondary school children represent the two categories whose internet use has increased the most in this crisis. Along with managing the shift in their own work-from-home routines, parents now have to in some cases manage video-conferencing schedules for their children while also overseeing their forced homeschooling