Chalkface has been reporting on efforts from around the globe to move education online so students can continue to study during the pandemic and associated lockdowns. This article from The Independent is clearly showing the move has not been a success for everyone.
More than two million children in the UK have done almost no schoolwork at home during the coronavirus lockdown, according to researchers. The UCL Institute of Education found one in five pupils have spent less than an hour a day on study since March and only 17 per cent of children put in more than four hours of schoolwork a day.
Professor Francis Green, the lead author of the study, said the findings paint a “gloomy picture” of missed schooling and low take-up of academic work at home.
He said: “The closure of schools, and their only-partial re-opening, constitute a potential threat to the educational development of a generation of children.
“Everyone is losing out in this generation, some much more than others. Better home schoolwork provision, and better still an early safe return to school for as many as possible, should now become a top priority for government.”
Yet again we see what happens when a system is not invested in properly. At ITS we invested in fully integrated school and online learning years ago. Our students had no disruption.
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