In the field of education and didactics, the concept of teaching resources is increasingly being analyzed and subjected to further reflection. The concern in the very process of learning and teaching and identifying the necessary support to make it meaningful and maximize the positive effects of their introduction in the process of the effective instructional procedure.

Educational measures are the way and form of managing the knowledge transfer by experimenting and experiencing. Project and oversee the activities. Use objects, ecology, and automation in a meaningful way. They are delivered under the influence of a teacher’s concept, methodology, and strategy selected to follow specific goals. Passing knowledge, stimulate the senses, enable experiments, and encourage reflection and exploration in the most productive way possible.

From this assumption, the educational resources are represented not only by technological devices or teaching aids such as software, book, or computer, but also through cultural, conceptual, and regulatory systems.

Teaching aids are objects, tools, equipment, materials (structured and unstructured), including audiovisual and IT media that can facilitate autonomy, communication, and learning. Among them, new technologies, and especially computers, are of particular importance due to the numerous and innovative opportunities they offer in the field of education and teaching of individual disciplines. And most importantly, student-paced.

In addition to traditional aids, for disabled students, equipment and software are available easily accessible at school. The number and variety of teaching resources and newly developed methods have significantly improved the availability of aids used in cognitive processes in the education of the last decade.

In the current situation, learning resources such as online mind maps, charts, dioramas and other support can notably boost and assist the learning process.

• audio recordings and audiobooks (audible by AMAZON)
• e-learning platforms (Mathletics, Nessy)
• multimedia presentations (Nearpod, Seesaw, Loom)
• webinars, teleconferences, group chat/video chat
• phone educational apps (quizzes, flashcards, problem-solving, calculations)
• documentaries (NatGeo), educational talks (TEDx)
• online educational games
• educational videos about a topic (SciShow Kids, the dodo)
• recorded lectures, virtual lessons (Khan Academy)
• visualisations and infographics for children (The Guardian)
• textbooks / dictionaries
• books in digital form, digital libraries (Global Digital Library) and digital bookshops (eBooks, O’Reilly)

Analysing today’s pandemic situation, academic activities conducted by educational institutions using remote methods are the winners. Regardless of the platform, their status and the country of location – these are who got the ‘golden star’. They are properly prepared, have appropriate technical resources and multimedia solutions that can effectively and flexibly serve. Technical means (webinars) and support, teaching process planners, teaching materials (multimedia libraries), and learning systems. They provide the possibility of enforcement and control acquired knowledge.

What education measures for tomorrow’s school? Nowadays, we are flooded with novelties and innovative solutions practically every day to improve, diversify and maximise the positive effects of the learning and teaching process. Efforts are directed at going beyond the present horizons and expanding the range of available resources ready for education aid. At the same time, they were improving their universal availability and flexibility of use in a regular and integration educational environment.

There is plenty of methodologies, resources and educational help freely accessible and quite flexible in usage. 

The school decides the means bank. Your child’s teacher decides the method of managing them, the teaching possibilities for the highest quality of transferring the knowledge and organising supervision of workflow. And you – parent keep an eye on the plan and learning process to make it the most fun and enjoyable possible for our kid’s sake. 

If you feel your child accesses and archives more if not using electronic devices, go for some ‘paperwork’ and ask for printable versions of the work. Handwriting and coloring never go out of fashion. 

If the teacher uses a platform for lesson content visualization and you can’t follow because of the content/speed/requirements, ask for a student-paced link to have a possibility of access in your own time and conditions. 

If you run out of books and you cannot just get some at the library, ask for any possible eBook library you could explore if you don’t have one you already use. 

There are numerous free educational platforms, free and without any subscription. You could google some. We often use YouTube Kids Channels, NatGeo documentaries for kids, monthly science boxes you could order online. Sites that make your child explore static, physic and geography. There is also an option to stop and use mindfulness a bit. Learn essential life skills. Concentrate on how to cook a delicious dish or how to make a birdhouse of wood. If you can’t decide or not able to find the right, available methods and resources – be a good parent. Being a good parent makes you a better life teacher for your children. They will lots more with you – patient and calm than a crazy and furious homeschooling mother, trying to not blow the house up because of frustration and lack of possibility to approach the issue of ‘pandemic remote learning’ in a peaceful way. 

Stop. Check all your resources and possibilities again. Choose the best. Test them. Consult your observations with the teachers. Decide all together. Try to implement the plan.

I can imagine that you are tired…as we all are. But do not surrender. Search for alternatives. Look for substitutes. Hunt for free-bees to explore and test. Drop the old and not working paths and strategies you and your child struggle with.

Avoid making your home a battlefield. Otherwise, no one will come out victorious. And do not fight for perfection, but aim for better than yesterday!