The link below is to a wonderful website that has ideas and activities for
educating and entertaining children and youth while they are home from school.
Some of the things may be unique to U.S. students; however, I hope there are
things that you will find useful for your students/ children / teachers, others.
Colleagues of mine at the University of South Carolina created this.
[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mICTAm86ghfZLk2j-L5LdzkN6lxR8AFuPrcdKDUogmMLU0gPa3_3Xg5K1lfF7rKEu_HCJwGj=w16383]
https://sites.google.com/view/scccl-resources-covid19/home<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=4b4e224d-17dc191a-4b4e6c8c-ac1f6b0e67e4-38dc68ebe32cea36&q=1&e=66e0a508-7529-4ae9-b2e9-f9a2fbaba9d5&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fscccl-resources-covid19%2Fhome>
They will be updating it regularly.
Stay healthy,
Karen
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Tokwe
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 06:15 AM
To: iasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IASL] Re: Education worldwide in difficult times
I enjoyed it very much.
Hosea
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:29 AM Abha Singh
<abha.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:abha.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Schools and universities are shut in India till the end of this month.
Fortunately our school managed to switch to virtual learning platform using
Microsoft Teams app without any glitches. In anticipation of this crises
situation, teachers were trained to use this app to maximise teaching and
learning. However, as a librarian I am finding it difficult to conduct online
reading lessons.
Waiting to hear from others to make my lessons interesting and interactive.
Abha Singh
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<iasl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:iasl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> On Behalf Of
Daniel Mangale
Sent: 18 March 2020 14:48
To: iasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:iasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IASL] Re: Education worldwide in difficult times
This is great idea Helen and as global.school library community we should spear
head this urgently,here in Kenya its already lockdown schools upto University
level,the local education institution is trying a radio lessons but coverage is
not realised in all areas due to signal challenges, hence any opportunity to
bridge the gap is highly critical before its too late.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 12:10 PM Helen Boelens
<helenboelens@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:helenboelens@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues,
I have just read the following link,
https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-teachers-china-have-learned-past-month?fbclid=IwAR37q6DVlTJ4vtvYCfAbMfoMr4LeTiE2_MnVypDxSpoXHU03YmATKBzxc30
posted on Facebook by Dr. Marcia Mardis.
Here in the Netherlands all schools and school libraries are closed, from
kindergarden to high school exam classes. Public libraries are also closed.
Teachers, (school) librarians and parents are trying to continue students'
education in a sensible and reasonable way, using the facilities which are
available. It is so important that teachers, librarians and parents are
sharing ideas with each other, about online teaching, about how to keep their
students active, and also about how to involve parents, who are also working
from home. Many schools are not used to this form of teaching, but they are
putting up a valiant effort. Many do not have the funds to afford an adequate
online teaching program.
I suggest that we try, working together, to set up some kind of (multilingual)
log of teaching ideas, per age group, per class, per language, so that
schooling can remain "almost normal" in these strange times. Does anyone have
any ideas? I realise that curricula vary from school to school and from country
to country, however there must be many ways in which we can help each other.
The children (especially the smaller ones and the ones who have no brothers and
sisters) are lonely. Some online contacts with other children are recommended.
Ideas for simple activities (even craft work) which they can do at home would
be appreciated. Yesterday I read a really nice idea. Each child, regardless
of age, is encouraged to write a short story at the end of the daying, talking
about what it was like on that particular day, working from home and not have
the companship of their friends. This is a very nice idea. Stories can be
shared with other children and eventually bound and turned into books which
record the experiences of children during the Corona outbreak.
Also, children from larger, poorer families are suffering because their access
to the one computer in their home is limited. Also, refugee and immigrant
children sometimes have no access to computers, because the library is shut
(that is the place where they often did their homework). How can we work
together to solve some of these problems?
Suggestions please.
Warm good wishes to you all. Keep well.
Helen
Helen Boelens PhD
International School Library Researer and Advisor,
The Netherlands.
helenboelens@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:helenboelens@xxxxxxxxx>