Pandemic education: How Jordan’s tech platform bridges divisions
Sama Abu Omar knows the drill.
At 8:00 a.m. sharp, the 13-year-old settles into the desk pushed against one wall in her family’s cramped living room which is plastered with her colored motivational notecards. She puts on her headphones, fires up her newly-purchased Chinese-made tablet and begins scribbling notes while watching a video lecture.
A few months ago, Sama didn’t have the internet at home; the tablet cost her two years of savings. “School is my entire life,” she says. Online learning “is the only way to keep the spirit of studying alive. For a while, without it, I was lost.”
Education has long been a priority in resource-poor Jordan. The country has near universal access to education in grades one through
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