Schools are closed. Homeschooling techniques are a challenge. Best practices help parents and children to cope with distance learning.
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Multilingual education material
A Norwegian platform offers educational material in Norwegian as well as in the country’s main immigrant languages.
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A curated list of resources that helps to adapt to our current way of living
NESTA provides a list of relevant resources from funding and volunteer opportunities to ways to share personal data to help fight the spread of Covid-19.
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Guidance manual for protecting educational facilities
The WHO published a guidance manual with official information on Covid-19 prevention in educational facilities.
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Corona explanatory video for children
The city of Vienna informs children about the coronavirus and protective measures by publishing a child-friendly explanatory video.
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Online education on children’s rights
An online course teaches children about children’s rights and their application in the current situation.
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An overview on homeschooling techniques
Crisis response measures in many countries require schools to remain closed and children are being educated digitally. For parents, this poses the challenge of having to suddenly adapt to home-schooling techniques. In many cases, parents
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School laptops lent out to students
Some schools are lending their school computers to students so they can participate in online classes.
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Government platform to recruit retired or unemployed health professionals
The French Ministry of Solidarity and Health launched a platform to recruit volunteers and health professionals who are unemployed or retired.
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Take-away library books
A Swedish library organises contactless pick-ups of books outside the library to provide reading material during the lockdowns.
A streaming platform offers high-quality educational videos
A streaming platform delivers high-quality educational videos that help Austrian teachers and pupils to make digital teaching more effective.
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Digital infrastructure for homeschooling
The city of Vienna provides free laptops and a digital learning platform for students in need.
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Creative ways for children to keep their distance
Primary schools in China help their pupils to keep a safe distance with creative, self-made distance aids.