VOX POPULI: Tanka poems reveal students' perceptions of life in pandemic : The Asahi Shimbun
An elementary school teacher plays rock-paper-scissors with her students in an online lesson on May 11, 2020, in Nirasaki, Yamanashi Prefecture. (Hiroshi Kawai) A student nodding off in class and being poked awake by the teacher is a familiar classroom scene. But that’s not the case with online remote learning. “I fell asleep during an online lesson/ And woke up to find only myself on the screen,” goes a tanka poem by Rintaro Murakami, a third-year junior high school student. Around this time every year, I receive “Gendai Gakusei Hyakunin Isshu” (One Hundred Poems of Modern Students...
Source: asahi.com