Tips from UDomain Eric: Overcoming online learning difficulties by supports from parents and society
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Greetings, it is Eric sharing with you. While office workers are beginning to settle in WFH, now is the time for students to get along with online learning. Compared to traditional face-to-face education, distance learning is a rather innovative concept, where quite a number of parents have voiced their concerns over the use of Internet resources and security issues.
To help parents and students cope with the difficulties, I have, in a local magazine column, suggested 5 tips:-
- Make good use of online resources: parents can access official tutorials or YouTube clips to get familiar with the video conferencing apps (such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams), so that they can offer instant help when the students are having problem with those apps
- Remind of keeping correct positions: monitor and remind students of keeping correct sitting positions, let the eyes rest from time to time. A small projector could be installed to project the learning material on the wall, so that students would not have to watch them in a same position for too long
- Protect Privacy: as teachers and students could view the background of online learning participants, parents should keep an eye on the video background and consider removing private stuffs (such as family photos)
- Be cautious on Cyber Security: as students may be exposed to all kinds of information on the Internet, for safety, parents should install software that prevents kids from browsing restricted contents
- Enhance online ethics: information found on the Internet might vary. Parents should be responsible for teaching students how to fact-check
The other article I wrote on a parenting website discussed the problems faced by low income families when it comes to online learning.
Other than the fatigue caused by using video conference apps for a long period of time, there is a major concern in the lack of network resources. Due to the fact that not every family has Wi-Fi, some students need to leave home for other places to ‘borrow’ Wi-Fi. And when the only computer is occupied by parents for WFH, students could only use mobile phone for learning purposes. Occasions like these could seriously hinder students’ learning progress and performance.
Other than receiving government subsidies, what can be done by the society and neighborhood to share resources and solve those problems? We should all think about it.
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