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New challenges for teachers
The prolonged pandemic has reshaped education, with students and teachers having to adapt to online learning. Tso Siu Man, principal at De La Salle Secondary School NT, said that in the past two years, teachers have had to overcome one teaching challenge after another.
Principal Tso recalls that when the first wave of Covid-19 infections hit, the suspension of face-to-face classes and the instant switch to online lessons left his school scrambling to adapt. “Most of our students come from low-income families. They don’t have their own computers,” Principal Tso said. “Luckily we had a few computers for students to use at home. Yet they brought them back almost immediately because they had used up the internet data at home after just two or three days. Although there were computers, we still could not conduct online lessons easily.”
Principal Tso said online lessons require a lot of internet data. To solve the problem, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust worked with social welfare organisations and four telecommunication providers to launch the Bandwidth Support for E-learning at Home Scheme, supplying mobile data cards to about 100,000 students from low-income families, including students at De La Salle Secondary School NT.