Practical Family Challenges of Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

Jonna Häkkilä; Mari Karhu; Matilda Kalving; Ashley Colley

doi:10.1145/3419249.3420155

Practical Family Challenges of Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

Jonna Häkkilä, Mari Karhu, Matilda Kalving, Ashley Colley

Faculty of Art and Design

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 caused the rapid introduction of remote schooling in many countries. This transition caused a variety of challenges to families, encompassing organizing home workspaces, setting up computing equipment, and, for many parents, managing their own remote working in parallel with the schooling arrangements. This paper describes the findings from an online survey (n = 114) and an in-depth interview study (n = 14) conducted in Finland during the COVID-19 remote schooling phase. Focusing on issues surrounding technology usage in the family setting, we report on the array of applications parents and children were required to manage, strategies to share ICT equipment within families, spatial organizational issues and the high levels of flexibility needed from parents and other stakeholders to enable the remote schooling.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Subtitle of host publication	Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-7579-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420155
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020
MoEC publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society - Tallinna, Estonia Duration: 25 Oct 2020 → 29 Oct 2020 Conference number: 11 https://nordichi2020.org/#/

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Conference	Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Abbreviated title	NordiCHI '18
Country/Territory	Estonia
City	Tallinna
Period	25.10.2020 → 29.10.2020
Internet address	https://nordichi2020.org/#/

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remote schooling
COVID-19
home
family
children
parents

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Häkkilä, J , Karhu, M, Kalving, M & Colley, A 2020, Practical Family Challenges of Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland. in Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction : Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society., 64, ACM , New York, pp. 1-9, Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Tallinna, Estonia, 25.10.2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420155

Practical Family Challenges of Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland. / Häkkilä, Jonna ; Karhu, Mari; Kalving, Matilda et al.
Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction : Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. New York: ACM , 2020. p. 1-9 64.

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Practical Family Challenges of Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

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