With schools closed, screens are required for students, those working from home and everyone attempting to stay connected with friends and family. Our increased reliance on screens makes it difficult to determine how much is too much.
Associate Professor Tina Rapke talks with Rita Celli on CBC’s Ontario Today about the challenges parents and kids are facing while learning from home and provides advice on how to adapt. “We need to value the learning that is happening outside of the school context,” says Rapke. Listen to the full interview
Vidya Shah, Assistant Professor at York University’s Faculty of Education shares tips on how parents can encourage learning with their kids during COVID-19. Shah stresses the importance of acknowledging the difference between schooling and learning. “It’s important for parents to know that [learning] is happening all the time. When they are talking with their children, when […]
Rachel Silver, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, has won the 2019-2020 Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) for her paper Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.
Assistant Professor Vidya Shah shares tips to help parents teach while kids learn from home on CP24 Breakfast.
Associate Professor Lisa Farley’s book, Childhood Beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis, has been selected as the winner of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 Outstanding Book Award.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, as many parents juggle working from home with-helping their kids continue school assignments, some in Ontario are choosing to opt out, saying the remote-learning framework just doesn’t work for them. ‘Come together as a family to figure this out’ That approach — following a child’s own interests and ideas — is […]
In the days of COVID-19, there are new and even more urgent questions to be asked now about digital well-being, given that most of us will need to depend almost exclusively on digital channels for social support for the foreseeable future. Overnight parents around the world have become their children’s primary educators while managing […]
Diane Vetter, a course director in the Faculty of Education has co-authored a book with former secondee Lana Parker titled “Mentoring Each Other: Teachers listening, learning, and sharing to create more successful classrooms.” The book which was published by Pembrroke Publishers, explores ways teachers can collaborate and learn from each other in formal and informal […]
When it comes to getting kids reading, coding and initiating activity during these times, parents are looking to Associate Professors Tina Rapke and John Ippolito of York University’s Faculty of Education for expert tips. “If they have a to-do list for when they’re bored, refer them to it. Kids are responsible for their boredom. Remember […]