Back-to-School Preparation for the New Normal
The Department of Education (DepEd) recently announced that classes for this school year will begin on October 5, 2020. DepEd is offering alternative learning methods that includes online learning and offline methods, such as take-home readings and activities. Online education is an e-learning method that relies on the Internet for teacher/student interaction. Students can learn outside the traditional classrooms and away from the school campuses. To adapt to this change, we will be running through some of the important things you can prepare to get your kids ready for the ‘new norm’. 1. Identify online learning platforms to be used. Upon enrollment, you can ask this with the teacher assigned so you can download and prepare online tool where your child can access their online lessons and be able to meet his/her teacher and classmates virtually with the use of Google Meet (web camera and microphone). One of the new normal tool that schools are using is the Google Clas...