ABSTRACT
The rapid spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic in early 2020 and the adoption of social distancing and "stay-at-home"orders gave rise to the sudden need for schools to be able to provide effective remote teaching. In Italy and elsewhere, the introduction of distance learning technologies has significantly impacted the education of students and limited their social interaction and activities, among which are school trips and other scholastic experiences. To support the constrained educational possibilities of Italian schools, we developed "ActiveViewer", a technological platform that enables massive and interactive remote events, and performed a year-long large-scale experiment, providing a series of massive remote school trips to several Italian cities. We designed a new school trip format, named "CodyTrip"that merges coding and computational thinking with elements of traditional school outings, and provides an engaging experience for participants. In this paper, we present the format and five online trips performed during the school year 2020/2021. The results based on user feedback support the adoption of the tool not only as a stopgap measure for school outings throughout the pandemic but as an accessible and inclusive tool to widen the possibilities of cultural tourism. © 2022 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
The new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, which caused a pandemic. The highly contagious disease has led the whole world to unprecedented business, humanitarian and human challenges. But, as always, any risk can be recognized as a new opportunity. Thus, people around the world have redefined their understanding for health and well-being. However, it is important that in different geographies and industries people will continue to take advantage of this large-scale experiment caused by the pandemic and to rethink concepts, habits, and policies established long ago, in some cases. The aim of the paper is to explore students’ Covid-19 digital health literacy at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. A standardized questionnaire and scale were used, which aims in providing the ability of comparing the results with other students from other countries, and specialties. The results so far show students reported high HL, and an ability to crosscheck health information, which provides them with satisfaction, regarding to this information. Our students trust modern digital platforms, but also the official heath authorities in the country, including the developed Bulgarian unified information portal, the Ministry of Health, and the Regional Health Inspectorate web pages. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors.