Aimee shares how she noticed kids and parents needing extra support at the beginning of the Covid shutdowns and started an online tutoring platform for families to connect with credentialed teachers. And there is nothing more human than some wildly creative kids finding an ingenious way to get out of school work.In this episode, DJ talks with 25+ year veteran teacher, Aimee Buckley. Oh and try to stop touching your face.īut all that aside, amid those fears, we can at least we can revel in our shared humanity. All we can do is wash our hands, listen to advice from health officials, and try to keep our collective anxiety in check as the virus spreads throughout the world in the weeks and months to come. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)Īnd listen, the coronavirus outbreak is scary, deadly, and, well, it doesn't seem like things are going to improve anytime soon. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don’t kill me.'" Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk’s rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. "Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. But that didn't stop the children from beating the system. until they learned an app called DingTalk had been adopted so kids could get lessons and homework remotely. And the quarantined kids were relieved to be off school. Schools were shut down as the spread worsened. Among the harrowing details, there was one lighthearted bit of information. Even in, or perhaps especially in, difficult times.Īs the world frets over the novel coronavirus outbreak that's killed thousands, children at the epidemic's epicenter found a creative way to get out of doing schoolwork.Ī report in the London Review of Books (Opens in a new tab) detailed what life has been like in Wuhan, the area in China where the new coronavirus first broke out.
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