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2020-11-24 16:45
Last update date: 2020-11-24 16:45
Several schools had an outbreak of upper respiratory tract infections at the same time. Primary 1 to 3 in Hong Kong have been suspended for 14 days from Monday (23), and the suspension period for kindergartens and child care centers has been extended to December 6.
Following the rebound of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong, whether schools should be closed completely has aroused widespread discussion in the community.
Respiratory specialist Liang Zichao pointed out on Tuesday (24th) that the government should require schools, including tertiary colleges, to suspend classes.
However, during the past three waves of epidemics, schools have suspended face-to-face courses, and generally the online learning results of schools have been unsatisfactory.
Under the epidemic situation, many parents are worried that their students’ learning progress will be hindered. They will take a holiday at home in disguised form. How to improve home learning in Hong Kong is indeed worthy of the Education Bureau’s thinking.
The effect of studying at home is limited for students. Once classes are suspended, students have to recover their progress when they return to school.
Students' learning pressure is not decreasing but increasing, and teaching effectiveness may not always be as usual under the tight class time.
In addition to controlling students’ school suspensions, the Education Bureau still has to take both measures to improve the effectiveness of homeschooling and the learning progress of students after classes are resumed.
For example, the Education Bureau can assist schools in designing online courses, or study other online teaching methods beyond visual teaching to attract students. As for whether students' learning content should be streamlined after multiple rounds of class suspension, the Education Bureau needs to take action the study.
Under the epidemic situation, the ideal is of course that schools close classes and the learning effect can be as usual, but the reality is that the electronic equipment of poor students cannot keep up with their needs, and the effect of e-teaching in many schools is not as good as ideal.
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The Education Bureau and the Food and Health Bureau should strike a balance between epidemic prevention and learning needs.
For example, in the case that there are no cases of group infection in schools but the number of epidemics in Hong Kong has rebounded, the Education Bureau can still formulate guidelines for similar situations and prepare schools as soon as possible to deal with the spread of the area. , Arrange the suspension of individual schools or regions.
Once the epidemic becomes severe, schools will of course need to suspend classes completely to protect students' health. However, the overall suspension of classes has a great impact, not only on the progress of students' learning, but also on the work arrangements of their parents.
The Education Bureau should balance the needs of all parties between the total suspension of classes and the normal schooling.
Under the epidemic situation, the ideal is of course that schools close classes and the learning effect can be as usual, but the reality is that the electronic equipment of poor students cannot keep up with their needs, and the effect of e-teaching in many schools is not as good as ideal.
Under the epidemic situation, students and parents are still forced to choose between suspension of classes or not. The deeper cause of this phenomenon is the ineffectiveness of e-learning implemented by the Education Bureau and some schools for many years.
How to improve the effectiveness of e-learning, regardless of whether Hong Kong is facing the epidemic or not, is one of the issues that the education authorities need to take seriously.
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