{"id":75071,"date":"2021-04-30T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75071"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:36:09","slug":"a-lack-of-devices-but-a-heroic-effort-by-teachers-lepkowska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/30\/a-lack-of-devices-but-a-heroic-effort-by-teachers-lepkowska\/","title":{"rendered":"A lack of devices but a heroic effort by teachers [Lepkowska]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lack of devices but a heroic effort by teachers<\/strong> <\/a>— from global-edtech.com by Dorothy Lepkowska
\nEDUCATE webinar hears how countries coped with the Covid school shutdown<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

As in many countries, including the UK, schools and students in Portugal were hindered by a lack of devices, Huge Fonseca, an EdTech innovator, told the webinar.\u00a0 He said teachers were \u201csuperheroes\u201d and did what they could to connect with pupils, including distributing work on bicycles.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn Portugal there is a lack of devices and a lack of teacher training. The profession is among the oldest in Europe, and half of teachers are more than 50 years old. There is no government support to develop them, and if you leave teachers without learning new skills for 20 years or more then it is hard for them to adapt. We need more young people to go into teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Uruguay, more coherence was needed between the distribution of technology and teacher training.
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\nMeanwhile, in Brazil, there was a roll-out of technology but little training for teachers.
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\nIn Zambia, however, the pandemic offered an opportunity for project-based learning to address some of the problems faced by communities.<\/p>\n

She said the pandemic had shone a light on the heroic work of teachers and there was a \u201cshift in perceptions about teachers, and the importance of face-to-face teaching as a valued part of civil society\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n