Anatomy of a Post-Pandemic Student | Emma Tan | TEDxShekouIntlSchool

A look into the learning experience as education moves on from the pandemic, and how these unique problems require unique solutions. Emma Tan can’t believe she’s already a junior at Shekou International School, Shenzhen, where she’s a full-time nerd who loves to read and write. She found the COVID-19 pandemic to be something straight out of an apocalypse novel, and has been obsessed with it since it started. Having surprisingly lived through lockdowns in both China and her native Singapore, her TEDx talk is both a speculative look at what education will morph into post-COVID, and a cautionary tale about the how educational inequalities we’ve overlooked in our haste to leave the pandemic behind, will come back to haunt us. On a brighter note, she offers something post-apocalyptic societies don’t get: solutions, and a look at the future the pandemic has given us the creativity to face. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx