Daily Updated Resources and Information for Online Learning
A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids?
At the start of World War II, millions of children were evacuated from London and other cities and sent to live with foster parents in the English countryside. What happened to these children became a subject of study for psychoanalyst Anna Freud, who wrote in a 1943 book that young people who remained with their families through the bombing “were much less upset” than those who were sent away.
This story also appeared in Mind/Shift
Her contemporary John Bowlby studied children who spent extended stays in hospitals, apart from their families. The research helped inform his influential “attachment theory,” which emphasizes the bond between parent and child and the harms that come from separating them.
Those studies are part of a large body of research on what happens when kids are separated from their parents. But what about the situation unfolding now, as the coronavirus quarantine isolates children not from their primary caregivers but from their peers, teachers and everyone else in their lives?
How coronavirus is forcing online learning to evolve
Education is at a crossroads right now, where the choice is between clinging to old practices and theories or redefining learning in the age of COVID-19. The pandemic more commonly known as the coronavirus has forced schools around the world to close, prompting a chaotic scramble to move online and find a way to somehow finish out semesters.
How to Survive Distance Learning, According to a Teacher
Welcome to my quarantine: The blankets are forts, the couch cushions are trampolines, and the puzzles are a modern art jumble on the living room floor. Each day, I juggle teaching my high school students online and supporting my own children’s education at home. My kids are young (one is 5, the other almost 2), so they do not have a significant amount of distance learning to complete each day for school. But, like all work-at-home parents right now, I am attempting the balancing act of maintaining their schedules, promoting their educational development, getting my work done, and, you know, paying attention to them.
Updating Your Online Learning Strategy
Just eight weeks ago, none of us could have foreseen how our daily lives would be turned upside down by a rapid-traveling, worldwide virus. Similarly, in the global education community, none of us could have anticipated the seismic shift and massive digital transformation we are now undertaking as schools and institutions move to remote instruction.
COVID-19 Resources for Institutions and Accreditors
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation is providing information that can assist institutions and accrediting organizations as they address the many challenges of COVID-19. Sustaining quality is vital to all of us during this difficult time and we hope that the material here is helpful to the academic and accreditation communities.
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation
Distance Learning Webinar Gives Resources to Parents, Students, Educators *Update*
“Parents, you got this!’”
Principal Lisa Hassell-Forde from Addelita Cancryn Jr. High School called out those words of encouragement during a one-hour webinar on distance learning for parents, teachers and students.
The session was hosted Tuesday by Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett.
