CORONAVIRUS: THE SCHOOL MOVES TO THE INTERNET, BUT WHO IS REALLY PREPARED?

These days we are all closed in the house, but schools and universities must go on. Going beyond graduation sessions, which in one way or another are taking place online, the biggest problems caused by this situation concern elementary, middle and high school students. In fact, we are talking about boys who are between 6 and 19 years old. Younger children divinebeautytips   in particular need help understanding how to carry out educational activities from home, as they may never have turned on a computer.

However, this situation carries with it a whole series of other problems that have plagued our country for a long time, from poor digital literacythe lack of time of the parents (some are continuing to work these days). In short, today more than ever we are noticing an important basic problem for the school world: the lack of consideration of technological tools.

Online lessons and the difficulties of students and teachers

Although e-learning has been used for several years now (especially in the university environment), the Italian school was not prepared to manage this teaching method. Speaking of situations we have seen with our own eyes in recent weeks and dwelling only on the most significant, Influencer Marketing  there are teachers who are holding video lessons marketingmediaweb   on YouTube in a public way, with students interacting only through nicknames, some who have not even managed to register. to one of the e-learning services made free these days and others who have resigned themselves and are simply assigning homework , as if this replaced the lessons.

Consequently, how could they have trained the techcrunchblog    children to use these platforms? We could be here discussing age, difficulties in switching to a new teaching method, not exactly performing Internet connections and the effectiveness of the various methods for teaching, but the reality is that there is still a long way to go in the field and -learning.

Don't get us wrong, the problems are also on the nanobiztech    family side: many don't even have a PC or tablet at home , while some kids know how to use smartphones, but only for basic tasks. According to what reported by Repubblica , if we take families with at least one minor, 3 out of 4 do not have a desktop computer, only 1 out of 2 own a laptop and 1 out of 3 have a tablet.

This seems to have caused a sort of "sharing" of globalmarketingbusiness   electronic tools, in those families where there are more students. The younger brother does his homework first and then the older brother. But what if they both start having to attend classes at the same time? In short, the problem involves everyone, from teachers to families.

If our examples are not enough for you, the data confirm the situation. According to a recent survey by the Skuola.net Distance School Observatory , carried out on a sample of over 30,000 secondary school students and over 2000 parents, 9 out of 10 students are taking advantage of "smart learning".

So far everything seems normal, but the problem lies in the ways in which the teaching activities are carried out . In fact, in the North, 58% of students are using "advanced" e-learning tools (eg G Suite), while in the South of Italy 47% of students are simply using the electronic register.

Yes, you got it right: it is easy to talk about "smart learning", but many times the latter of "smart" has very little,

 

This is not to mention that only one in four children has experienced remote interrogation or class assignments. Furthermore, as regards middle school students, only 77% say they are carrying out educational activities. If, on the other hands, you are wondering how many students are actually following "real" online lessons, we are talking about 51% in the North (which falls if we take into account middle schools) and 23% in the South. Furthermore, it should not be underestimated that a boy out of 10 is not following educational activities in any way, not even those related to the electronic register.

But what about the students? Also according to the aforementioned survey, 35% of young people who fail this method say they cannot stay focused, 24% do not fully understand the explanations and 19% declare that there could be problems in the evaluation.

Even the teachers are not happy with the situation: even some of the most "technological" are in agreement in affirming that an "enhancement" of digital skills would be needed . In short, the situation that emerges is anything but rosy and does nothing but confirm the impressions we have had in recent days.

Yet, e-learning tools have been around for a long time and every year, at trade fairs like Didacta, many teachers continue to show a willingness to approach these methods. However, we are in a country where, only a few months ago, a decree was made to abolish the telematic university courses of Psychology, which was later withdrawn following protests by students and teachers .

What many are wondering at this point is whether the current situation will at least serve to make teachers and families understand the importance of digital tools. We also hope that what is happening will also be an example for the governments to come, because even the school cuts made over time have their own, great, weight in the difficulties that are encountered today.