The scale of the COVID19 crisis and its impact on global education is hard to comprehend. UNESCO has a website (COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response) providing almost real-time data on school closures. It is shocking to imagine that in a mere 45 days we have had schools close in over 180 countries, affecting 1.5 billion learners! As Yuval Harari wrote in The world after coronavirus:
In normal times, governments, businesses and educational boards would never agree to conduct such experiments. But these aren’t normal times.
We are living through the largest educational social experiment in history! This website and conversation is devoted to better understanding the present we are living in and the future that we will be emerging into.
Below is a short promotional video for this project with data and animation showing school closures across the world from the UNESCO site above.