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Worldcrunch Today, Dec. 23: COVID In Antarctica, Trump Vs. Stimulus, Messi Record Mount Etna has resumed eruptive activities: all show and no risk for the Sicilian population - Platania/Fotogramma/ROPI/ZUMA 2019-12-23
Welcome to Wednesday, where Trump blocks U.S. stimulus package, the last continent gets its first COVID cases and Messi breaks Pele s record. We also discover the different ways the world s teachers kept 1.5 billion students learning through the pandemic s lockdowns.
SPOTLIGHT: A HUMAN MUTATION: PANDEMIC TRIALS, TRANS SPECIES VISIONS
Seeing Manel de Aguas can prompt a range of reactions. The connected artificial fins implanted in his skull might look silly to some, inspiring to others, or just very disturbing. I don t feel 100% human, the 27-year-old Catalan told the
How The World s Teachers Handled 1.5 Billion Kids On Lockdown A teacher giving an online class in an empty school in Lalitpur, Nepal - Sunil Sharma/ZUMA
Learning can never stop, despite the schools being closed. Teachers around the world were forced to get innovative to overcome the lockdown.
When 63 million teachers found themselves confined at home last spring (
along with at least 1.5 billion students in 191 countries), they had to start getting creative. The closure of schools around the world served to exasperate existing educational inequalities, especially for those who already had fewer opportunities, including girls, those with learning disabilities and those living in poverty. As around half of the out-of-school students did not have access to a computer and over 40% did not have internet at home, online learning only provided a solution for some. Nevertheless, around the globe, educators found innovative solutions to reach even the