Weaving Edu Tapestry

Image Credit:  https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-teachers-china-have-learned-past-month On 2-3 July 2020, various online dailies, such as Kompas, Tribun News , Kontan , and Idonews , reported the plan of the Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Makarim to implement hybrid learning permanently after the Covid-19 pandemic. Minister Nadiem proposed the plan at a meeting with Commission X of the House of Representatives on Thursday, July 2, 2020. It was proposed based on the idea that technology use in learning provides many benefits, including the opportunities for schools to implement various learning models and to operate with various efficiency. The plan is also supported by the fact that the online learning implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic had eventually driven teachers, students, and parents to adapt and utilize technology to support learning. The result was admittedly not yet satisfactory, but it was mainly due to the lack of preparation since the plague ...

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations—something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. ( Katherine Patterson ) Image Credit:  https://about.uniteforliteracy.com/2019/05/two-simple-ways-to-help-struggling-readers/ The previous article, Reading Crisis: The Culprit of Indonesian Education Low Quality ,  shows that Indonesia's national education that had lasted for almost 75 years has been successful in terms of quantity aspects but is still slumped in terms of quality because  most students suffer from  the reading crisis. The modern  education system is highly dependent on literacy. Thus,  negligence of reading will directly harm learning quality. R eading is naturally a complex activity involving so many aspects that its teaching success or ...