EDITOR’S NOTE: In March, #EduCaribbean took a look at technology in Caribbean education in edition 2021-03-22. In this newsletter, we re-visit this topic, looking specifically on distance/remote learning. With face-to-face classes suspended for the most part across the Caribbean because of community spread of the COVID-19 virus, more reliance is being placed on this mode of delivering lessons, but obstacles abound.
Our headline taken from the Dominican Today reads: “Kids Don’t Learn Enough Through Distance Education, Study Finds”. A World Vision study of the opinion of parents of primary school children has revealed that 63.5% of them believe that their children do not learn enough under the model of distance learning.
Although #EduCaribbean focuses on high school and higher education, these primary school children will go on to high school and then higher education. The four remaining articles taken from the Jamaica Gleaner confirm the opinion of the parents but are not due to the level instruction being given, except for educators’ resistance to recording their online lessons.