Dear MEL Topic Readers,
In pictures: Mexico school classes resume on TV
The population of Mexico is just about 130 million, the 10th populous country in the world. While the nation’s number of confirmed
cases of Covid-19 is just around 600,000, the death tolls are over 60,000, the
third largest only after the US and Brazil, or just about as many as India
whose population is 10 times more than Mexico.
So, they decided not to bring 30 million school children back to
classrooms for the new school year. Instead, they are now teaching children
through distance learning. Sounds like pretty normal in today’s digitalized
education communities, doesn’t it? However, many of the Mexican families neither have
access to the internet nor own a PC. So, they are now broadcasting school
classes on TV! Though it is not interactive, students can at least take classes
from home and do assignments.
Education doesn’t have to be done by digital or online. This old-fashioned
way helps millions of school children study even though they cannot go to school. After all, children like watching TV, provided that they don’t have a
smartphone.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about this desperate attempt to keep
children educated even under the pandemic in Mexico.
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