#Love2Learn: TikTok and UNICEF encourages creative learning [videos]

Parents are faced with a challenge: Keeping children engaged and entertained; while simultaneously step into the role of being teachers and homeschoolers. Allow TikTok’s Love2Learn to help.

For those who don’t know, TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video; the team’s mission is “to inspire creativity and bring joy”.

One of the ways TikTok achieves this is through various campaigns and online initiatives meant to motivate youth. The latest endeavour is called “Love2Learn”.

#Love2Learn: What you need to know

To ensure that education can successfully continue, learners, teachers and parents must find creative and inspiring ways to stay engaged in this stressful and ever-changing environment.

TikTok has, therefore, joined forces with UNICEF SA to launch the #Love2Learn campaign. The focus is “to promote learning from home during the lockdown period”.

Watch: Love2Learn motivation

The team is now inviting learners, parents and teachers to share their home-learning setup and experiences with the platform’s global community.

Why Love2Learn is vital for locked-down students

Muriel Mafico, Deputy Representative of UNICEF South Africa, explains that UNICEF-SA is “delighted to partner with TikTok”, and adds:

“Through this collaboration, learners are able to share ideas and best practices with each other to continue studying. TikTok offers a home for creative expression where users can build their skills and capacities as well as engage with the world around them.”

Furthermore, Mafico explains that UNICEF is all about “providing children and young people with a voice to be heard throughout society”.

Watch: Watch: Love2Learn motivation

“Empowered voices”

When their voices are heard, “they are empowered and have the best chance to reach their full potential”. In addition, UNICEF Advocate and South Africa’s most-loved TV personality, Maps Maponyane, backs the campaign.

“TikTok is a platform that is dominated by youth culture in terms of usage, and while at home with not much else to do, they’re using [the platform] far more – that is where their attention is. So if we are trying to encourage continuous learning, and want to make it fun, there is no better platform than TikTok. I look forward to being a part of #Love2Learn campaign”.

Starting this week, students are invited to create TikTok videos and share the different ways they have been learning and keeping their grades up during lockdown.

Parents and teachers are encouraged to join by sharing advice on how to keep up with schoolwork while at home; as well as share their tips for learning at home.

Also read – Five ways parents can motivate children at home during the pandemic