Coronavirus: parents and pupils reflect on first week of digital learning – The National

Coronavirus: parents and pupils reflect on first week of digital learning – The National

Coronavirus: parents and pupils reflect on first week of digital learning. Parents have called for more interaction between teachers and pupils after the first week of distance learning was completed in the UAE.. "Home learning would be better with more video based learning, and should be a combination of face-to-face and recorded videos.". Lynda Marrington, a 43-year Australian in Dubai, said schools need to incorporate video conferences as pupils begin to feel isolated.. "One of the biggest challenges is that my husband has to teach online classes as he is a university teacher.. Working alongside has been a challenge as the children finish their work around noon.". Right now, we are just getting paragraphs with teachers reading to us.. Alison Rego, 37, a single parent from India who now lives in Sharjah, works during the day and makes sure her daughter completes her online lessons in the evening.. "I believe that schools should have distance learning every alternate day rather than every day for pupils under the age of 10," said Ms Rego.. "Schools should have online lessons three days a week for young pupils.. The children don't need classwork every day..