{"id":570197,"date":"2021-03-31T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/?post_type=article&p=570197"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:59:20","slug":"trying-to-improve-remote-learning-a-refugee-camp-offers-some-surprising-lessons","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/trying-to-improve-remote-learning-a-refugee-camp-offers-some-surprising-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Improve Remote Learning? A Refugee Camp Offers Some Surprising Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"
This article originally appeared at The Hechinger Report<\/a> and is published in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Exchange<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n L<\/span>ast year when teachers and students transitioned to remote instruction, Iraqi instructor Mohammad Hameed and his students in the Arbat Refugee Camp in the Iraqi Kurdistan region weren\u2019t caught off guard.<\/p>\n While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren\u2019t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. They didn\u2019t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment \u2014 in fact most students didn\u2019t even have laptops or access to the internet. They had something more important: basic digital literacy.<\/p>\n