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Schools Teach by Text Message as Covid Widens Philippine Digital Divide
Bloomberg
by Isabelle Lee
October 29, 2020
On March 10, when Philippine schools shut to slow the spread of Covid-19, April Garcia’s job was upended.

The 22 year-old had recently become a teacher at AHA! Learning Center, a private non-profit school in Makati City, the Philippines’ financial hub. Instead of explaining words and math problems to first graders in her classroom, she suddenly had to find a way to reach about 80 students over the internet -- in a country with meager bandwidth and poor families with few devices to connect.
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