In order to effectively prevent the coronavirus from spreading, whilst also to protect the students’ safety, the Education Bureau has issued an urgent notice of delaying the school opening. Nowadays, the new types of online learning start: Stop classes whilst not stopping learning in order to guarantee the students’ continued study during this difficult period. This new online learning has brought new challenges to students and teachers.
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How to focus on learning at home?
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When physical contact is impossible,
we communicate with each other by literature.
Facing the sudden outbreak of epidemic, the students from the “SHI NIAN” Literary Society have tried to support the people combating the virus by writing encouraging articles.
As the old saying goes，Sorrow and Anguish Cultivate Poets. The campus poets depicted the touching moments and minute details of the epidemic with beautiful poems and with those poems they confided sorrow, encouragement and love.
《致武汉》8A 刘泽宇 《医者仁心》8A 李宇菲
《普通人》8B 陆然诚 《是谁的呐喊》8A 季笑同
Another part of the articles is My Special Diary—the campus writers shared their feelings and experiences when contained around home, telling stories about their month-long stay-in-house adventures.
假期一号线 假期二号线 8B 薛世昀
In the column Review the Classic, the students wrote reviews about the best pieces of the classic literature as they finally had a period of time going nowhere but home, focusing on reading.
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《给傅雷的一封信》
8A 李宇菲 8B 徐宇蝶 8B 郑可为
我是影评人
8B 姚琳 《当代细胞生存法则》
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because it always gives us some new learning opportunities and experiences.
Teachers and students continue to explore during this special time period. In order to fully understand the students’ online learning experience and effect, ISS conducted a questionnaire survey on online teaching. The results were somewhat unexpected but surprising. Although online teaching has limited the teacher-student interaction, it has created a greater space for students’ autonomous learning, allowing them to learn to be truly responsible for their own learning and life.
ISS Teachers’ online assessement of students’ work
When asked what they liked about online learning, most students said that they appreciated the freedom to plan their own learning, with one student saying “I have a lot more time for independent learning, which actually helps me learn knowledge faster”. Some students said that they found it difficult to work at home because they feel too comfortable and they could be surrounded by distractions that they wouldn’t normally have in the classroom environment, but most students reported their online learning as very good or outstanding, with one student even reporting “I wish in the future we can try online classes even in normal time”! Overall, students’ general feelings were summarized by one pupil who responded that he thought the online learning was “generally very good, (I am) able to keep pace and continue the courses”.
Another way that students have been adapting to the new circumstances is by trying new ways to keep healthy. Most pupils said they have been trying new exercises in their homes and making sure to eat much more healthily than they had before. Students said they were having fun trying the exercises given to them by their PE teachers and others spoke about the importance of sleeping properly to ensure they are fully prepared for their learning each day.
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“Take each lesson seriously and taking some notes will be very helpful”
“Try only having one technology device while learning to concentrate, and turn off notifications while having a lesson”
“Think your home as a private school with nobody except you learning with your teacher”“Try not to study in a very warm environment as it makes you sleepy. Stretch and get up between classes and drink plenty of water”
“Make a daily schedule to balance learning, exercise and entertainment”
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从专业角度，我们的心理老师也给出了建议
Honesty speaking, it is difficult for students to keep good mentality focus on studying during this period. This requires our teachers to communicate more with them, know their current study situation, find out the problems and solve them immediately. It also needs our parents (as most of you are back to work now) to provide a good studying environment for your children, communicate more with them, and help school to guide them positively. What’s more, our students, you need to develop your talents and abilities, study and learning more actively.
With the continuation of online studying, we might meet various difficulties and challenges, but students, don’t panic and be afraid, the teachers are with you, the parents are with you, the school is with you. We are with you. Let us look forward to the day we return back to school.