VERY glad to get kids back into classes after a challenging 2020. Let's hope schools much less in 2021!
(While this does mean less income for the most popular private class teachers - who never stopped teaching in their homes, or the homes of rich parents - it is overwhelmingly a good thing for 99.5% of Cambodian students who never had such access.)
Schools reopen! Private today, Public/Government Schools Jan 11
99.5%? Is that an official figure? Never realized it was that high. I thought everybody or most were studying online?
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Have you ever seen a government school?wibblewibble wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:54 amI thought everybody or most were studying online?
Have you been outside of the city much?
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No. Never in 20 years,
Have you ever seen a mobile phone? Have you ever watched a Khmer TV channel in the last 6 months?
Have you ever seen a mobile phone? Have you ever watched a Khmer TV channel in the last 6 months?
Well, judging by the traffic blocking up road 4 from Chom Chao onwards for most of the day, schools may well be shut again after COUNTDOW' in Shitsville finishes and a new cluster brought over from Rayong breaks out.
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Yes and yes. What is your point?wibblewibble wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:44 pmNo. Never in 20 years,
Have you ever seen a mobile phone? Have you ever watched a Khmer TV channel in the last 6 months?
I am not the demographic that needs to access government provided education.
Sorry, let me clarify.
1. Many Khmer students have smartphones, even in the provinces, where mobile phone coverage is remarkably good
2. MoEYS has ben presenting hundreds of hours of online/TV education for the Khmer curriculum. The TV signal is remarkably good in the provinces.
I hope this helps.
1. Many Khmer students have smartphones, even in the provinces, where mobile phone coverage is remarkably good
2. MoEYS has ben presenting hundreds of hours of online/TV education for the Khmer curriculum. The TV signal is remarkably good in the provinces.
I hope this helps.
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Yes, I understand what you are hinting at.
But those 2 points do not mean that ‘everyone or most are studying online’. Far from it. It’s an extremely naive assumption.
How many kids under 16 have smartphones? Sure, many families have smartphones but they mostly have more kids than phones. Internet access is decent, but often not good enough to stream video lessons. No or little free WiFi available and poorer families will not always have credit on their phone to watch lessons.
Most houses I visit in provinces do not have a TV. The local coffee shop will have one but it will be busy with soaps/music videos.
But the biggest reason IMO is motivation, parents are not teachers, they go to work and few will encourage or follow up with their kids lessons. Poor rural families do not really understand the value of education and see a need to be involved in their child’s education.
Give a child under 15 years old a choice to study or not (with no supervision) and see what they choose.
I hope this helps.
But those 2 points do not mean that ‘everyone or most are studying online’. Far from it. It’s an extremely naive assumption.
How many kids under 16 have smartphones? Sure, many families have smartphones but they mostly have more kids than phones. Internet access is decent, but often not good enough to stream video lessons. No or little free WiFi available and poorer families will not always have credit on their phone to watch lessons.
Most houses I visit in provinces do not have a TV. The local coffee shop will have one but it will be busy with soaps/music videos.
But the biggest reason IMO is motivation, parents are not teachers, they go to work and few will encourage or follow up with their kids lessons. Poor rural families do not really understand the value of education and see a need to be involved in their child’s education.
Give a child under 15 years old a choice to study or not (with no supervision) and see what they choose.
I hope this helps.
Yeah, not easy at all.
The key to take care kids do need help with motivation and little rewards. A lot of.
Junior is the most difficult one, though he likes:
A) Youtube, AmongUS, Roblox and the like.
B) Little sticky things. Kind of chewing gum to stick small papers to a wall.
C) Just be with me.
D) Get the praises, when he performs on own initiative.
Reward him with these things, if he follows up on lessons and homework.
Costs -initially- a lot of time and energy, and once he found out how
it works, he grumbles with homework, though does do this stuff, without
much direction. However, that kind of motivation is alien stuff for Khmer
people, where punishment is the norm
The others are remarkably motivated and do need little encouragement.
Zoom: Yeah, difficult, school found out to, that the overall bandwidth
in Cambodia is by far insufficient to do this at a large scale. Let alone
the school's connection to the internet.
So, now the teachers do use Telegram to communicate (text and voice messages),
send pictures from their white-board and recordings of their teaching.
Works remarkably well, though it highly depends on the teacher, whether
there is sufficient speed with the lessons, to not let the kids switch to
YT, etc during classes. A few weeks ago, Junior was recording a song,
actually singing to his phone, for his music lessons, and also sent in by Telegram.
Zoom is merely some 20 minutes or so, usually towards the end of a lesson.
The Zoom link is sent by Telegram.
Overall I prefer the kids to go to school, though I highly appreciate the
schools do make all this effort to keep things running.
But, it definitely needs some "guarding", ehhh, guiding, though that could also be Grandma, etc.
The key to take care kids do need help with motivation and little rewards. A lot of.
Junior is the most difficult one, though he likes:
A) Youtube, AmongUS, Roblox and the like.
B) Little sticky things. Kind of chewing gum to stick small papers to a wall.
C) Just be with me.
D) Get the praises, when he performs on own initiative.
Reward him with these things, if he follows up on lessons and homework.
Costs -initially- a lot of time and energy, and once he found out how
it works, he grumbles with homework, though does do this stuff, without
much direction. However, that kind of motivation is alien stuff for Khmer
people, where punishment is the norm
The others are remarkably motivated and do need little encouragement.
Zoom: Yeah, difficult, school found out to, that the overall bandwidth
in Cambodia is by far insufficient to do this at a large scale. Let alone
the school's connection to the internet.
So, now the teachers do use Telegram to communicate (text and voice messages),
send pictures from their white-board and recordings of their teaching.
Works remarkably well, though it highly depends on the teacher, whether
there is sufficient speed with the lessons, to not let the kids switch to
YT, etc during classes. A few weeks ago, Junior was recording a song,
actually singing to his phone, for his music lessons, and also sent in by Telegram.
Zoom is merely some 20 minutes or so, usually towards the end of a lesson.
The Zoom link is sent by Telegram.
Overall I prefer the kids to go to school, though I highly appreciate the
schools do make all this effort to keep things running.
But, it definitely needs some "guarding", ehhh, guiding, though that could also be Grandma, etc.
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