How’s it going in self-isolation…
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Einar: Well, it’s a weird experience. I can go outside the house and do home maintenance. That’s good. Delivery service of food boxes dropped on the doorstep followed by a sharp rat-tat-tat-tat at the door. I open it, delivery man keeping his distance takes my photo or my driver licence placed on doorstep, then flees.
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Rahim: Do the police check on you?
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Einar: Have had almost daily telephone calls checking that I’m isolated, administering questionnaires and so on but no further visits yet.
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Rahim: Psychologically?
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Einar: I have bursts of enthusiastic activity. Then a sort of zombie-like slowdown for a few hours.
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Rahim: Work?
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Einar: School’s closed so I have to put all my classes online. The school is woefully behind in online learning. It doesn’t use Zoom, it has its own system which is most unintuitive. Most teachers can only use email but students only use LINE. There’s an app gap.
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Teachers are encouraged to make their class content visually attractive. Not just talking heads. To simplify, and to entertain. It’s the age of memes. If lessons are to be delivered by email teachers might resort to greater use of emojis. Like emoji film quizzes. Would that result in students sending in assignments using LINE stickers? That might be a perfect match of meme exchange. With this new virus rampant, schools are dumping lessons online holus-bolus and willy-nilly. For a model math lesson, see...
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