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TEACHING AND LEARNING FROM HOME:
A RESOURCE GUIDE
To support all educators and parents teaching from home in the weeks ahead, the World Ocean Observatory is pulling together a compendium of home-study tools and resources for teaching and learning about the ocean. These resources can be used by parents, educators and others to address the educational gaps being created by local and national ‘shelter in place’ initiatives to help flatten the curve on the Covid-19 outbreak. This list of resources is a work in progress: please reach out if you have other key elements that we should be sharing with our global community. Drop us an email: director@thew2o.net.
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A VIRAL OPPORTUNITY
What kind of world do we want on the other side of this crisis?
by Peter Neill, director, World Ocean Observatory
Is this not an astonishing opportunity for change? We have now experienced the destructive consequences of the past on a global scale; does not logic and practical need demand progress away from demonstrated failure toward new options and inventions for the future? Should we not be thinking about and encouraging those opportunities now?
The Coronavirus has produced global fear, isolation, and death, a tragic submersion into a world where Nature is perceived as our enemy, not our friend. We are staying indoors, distancing even from family, and are concerned for our health, our safety, and our community. This cannot be denied, no matter what our politics or our willingness to accept the studies and predictions of science...
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