Ronald Thwaites | No shortcut in education standards
In this September photograph, two students share one laptop to attend their online class. There are ongoing concerns about the digital divide in Jamaica. In many poor, urban communities, students regularly stay away from their online classrooms because their parents cannot afford to pay for fixed Internet/broadband service in their homes. My young friend Sydney has given up the tutorial teaching he was doing at the university level. The frustration of trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to reach his class virtually has taken its toll. At least one-half of his students have had no consistent con...
Source: jamaica-gleaner.com