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Business in the Community Northern Ireland (BITC) is asking companies to help its appeal for resources like hardware and digital skills support to benefit young people learning from home.
Young people are using their mobile phones to access their work remotely as they do not have the devices they need for studying, it has emerged.
Assistant principal Trish Boyd, from Belfast Model School for Girls, said research carried out into how their pupils are coping with home schooling found that many are struggling without the devices they need for proper access to online studying. We have found that a substantial number of children either don t have a digital device or access to the internet, or even when there is a digital device there are multiple children in the house, she said, speaking on Good Morning Ulster.
Remote learning: What are the challenges presented by at-home learning?
By Amy Stewart & Jordan Kenny
BBC News NI
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image captionPaula Reynolds says many families do not have one laptop never mind one for each child
Back to school for pupils, this month, has meant back to the laptop. Back to the online Zooms. Back to the kitchen table strewn with exercise books.
With Covid-19 cases surging, students across Northern Ireland are braced once again for a stint of remote learning.
But keeping children temporarily out of school, and focusing their attentions on laptops, tablets and phones, brings renewed concerns about technology and the digital divide, in which some children do not have easy access to the tools they need.