Student Perspective of Online Pedagogy Post COVID-19. A Missed Opportunity?

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed education and caused unprecedented disruptions. These changes may disappear once the schools resume face-to-face classes in full force. Likewise, a positive change may not be necessarily what we want in education. This may be due to the existence of digital divide among students which cannot be ignored. During the COVID-19 pandemic, OneNote Class Notebook is used as an interactive digital whiteboard and has been evident as one of the best alternatives to the traditional whiteboard in the teaching and learning process. In this study, we aim to analyze students' perceptions of OneNote Class Notebook and the level of their continuous intention to use OneNote Class Notebook as an interactive digital whiteboard to replace the traditional whiteboard when school reopens with face-to-face lessons in the classroom in full force. The findings show that the students perceived that OneNote Class Notebook is indeed a useful tool to be used for calculus learning. But, it cannot be perceived as suitability to continue to be used during post COVID-19 period, when school reopens with physical classes in full force. In this regard, it reminds educators of the importance of rethinking education in the new normal post COVID-19 era from the perspective of curriculum studies. © 2023 IEEE.

Evidence of Stress Reactions and Positive Changes in Primary School Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Theoretical Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, and international studies reveal the psychosocial effects on children from both the children's and the parents' perspectives. Objective: Because the COVID-19 pandemic is a novel crisis that affects everyone, the present qualitative substudy of the COVID-19 Children's Study explored the changes in children resulting from this emergency from the perspective of primary school pedagogues. Method: To this end, we conducted 11 focus-group discussions in spring 2021 with 31 primary school teachers and principals from North Tyrol. We analyzed the focus groups using thematic analysis. Results: The primary school pedagogues observed both stress reactions and positive changes in the pupils. Stress reactions were devided into behavioral, emotional and physical symptoms. Positive changes observed were behavioral changes, such as more independence;and emotional changes, such as more connectedness. Discussion and conclusion: It is important to take the numerous stress reactions of children described above seriously in schools and society. In addition to the negative effects, positive changes also took place in the children, and these should be promoted and strengthened as resources in the sense of resilience in the further course of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Mathematical Model Considering Effect of COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application (COCOA) and “GoTo Travel Campaign”

In the end of 2019, the emergence of COVID-19 was reported and confirmed for the first time, and it triggered an international pandemic. In Japan, the strong tendency to spread of infection is still continuing. The Japanese Government has been raised two concepts to overcome this difficulty. One is the thorough measures to control of the spread of infection and the other is the economic recovery. The government has carried out the corresponding two policies: the use of COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application (COCOA) and the application of “GoTo Travel Campaign”. We focus on these two policies and study an ideal situation, which enables us to balance more economic recovery and control of the spread of infection. To pursue this goal, we propose a mathematical model to estimate these policies’s effects and conduct simulations of 28 scenarios. In addition, we analyze each result of the simulation and investigate characteristics of each situation. As a result, we clearly find that it required that not only the increasing the using rate of COCOA but also a positive change of people’s behaviors and awareness. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.

Perceived Changes in Family Life During COVID-19: The Role of Family Size.

OBJECTIVE: The current study was aimed at exploring Italian parents' perceived negative and positive changes in family life during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking into account the role of the stage of the family life and family size. BACKGROUND: During the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families drastically changed their daily life and routines. Little evidence exists on how family characteristics, such as family size or presence of children, are related to families' experience of family change. METHOD: A large sample of 1,407 Italian parents (70.1% mothers) filled in an anonymous online survey during the third week of the lockdown period (between March 30 and April 7, 2020). RESULTS: Results showed that parents reported perceiving more positive changes than negative ones, especially in terms of feeling more emotionally close to their children and spending more fun time with them. Interestingly, parents with two or more children reported more positive changes in family life compared with parents who had one child, showing a greater relational regenerative capacity in the face of COVID-19 lockdown. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Investing in family relationships, especially for larger families, is an effective coping strategy to deal with traumatic situations and promote positive family changes in stressful situations.