AVer Europe: How Teachers Can Prepare for Returning to the Classroom
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK a year ago, teachers completed the herculean task of adjusting to distance learning almost overnight. New technology, approaches and skillsets were required to ensure students stayed online and engaged.
While the classroom will be a familiar education setting to return to, it will look very different and not just because of testing or social distancing. There are some technological considerations that teachers will have to navigate. We ve explored these to help these education heroes get back to what they do best, as soon as possible.
Sideswipe: March 11: Prescient words on pandemic
10 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read Ten years ago by the New York Times published comments by Dr Abigail Zuger criticising certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh s film about a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. The movie s screenwriter, Scott Burns, responded . We took great care to make sure our fictional story was based on real science. The world had seen more than three dozen new pandemic-ready viruses in the last three decades. The scientists who consulted on the film, along with most of their colleagues in epidemiology and virology, believe it is only a matter of time coupled with lack of preparation before the world faces a real-life pandemic like the make-believe one in the film. Dr Zuger s point that the Contagion virus or MEV-1 does not precisely replicate Nipah encephalitis, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic or HIV/AIDS is correct. She is also right about the tr
Everest Icefall Doctors Prepare For New Season By Paavan MATHEMA
03/10/21 AT 9:05 AM
Nepal s icefall doctors were preparing Wednesday to set off for Everest ahead of the hoped-for return of climbers after the pandemic wiped out last year s season on the world s highest peak.
These highly skilled Nepali mountaineers are the first men on the peak every season, using ropes and ladders to build a route across plunging crevasses and constantly shifting ice, including the treacherous Khumbu icefall. A team of eight including two support staff have reached the Everest base camp and are preparing, Nishan Shrestha of Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, which manages the route setting, told AFP.
Tuesday, 09 March, 2021, 13 : 00 PM [IST]
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