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Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals
New Possibilities in Education
s w a n m o m e n t f o r time, but how many
education, as it will never educators were actually
be the same after students using them pre-corona
return to campuses. virus? These possibilities
to connect with students
Often, it takes losing or remotely were there, but
removing something for we have relied heavily on a
things to be revealed. face-face educational
Possibilities existed all model, despite the fact
along, but we become that much of society now
cationdu has been complacent, and do not see operates using a social
turned upside down in them until a major shift, media, technologically
El i g h t o f t h e like this pandemic, occurs. distanced lifestyle.
coronavirus pandemic. Then, it's like drawing back
Schools across the country the curtains or raising the I ' m n o t s a y i n g t o
have been closed, and blinds, the light comes abandoned face-to-face
students thrust into remote shining in. In my opinion, instruction in k-12 schools
learning. Teachers, in many this situation has shed light or higher education. All
cases, have had little or no on many new possibilities I'm saying is we have
time to really prepare to inherent in our education demonstrated that we
deliver this different form system. For instance: can use other tools to
of instruction. · More creative use of supplement—and ideally
Parents have also been t e c h n o l o g y b y enhance--the instruction
tasked with helping to guide t e a c h e r s . 2 1 s t
students, as they juggle c e n t u r y s k i l l s ,
their own work from home. operating more like
how students will in
Some education leaders are the future workplace.
concerned about students
falling far behind in their Technologies such as Zoom,
studies, and rightfully so. G o o g l e C l a s s r o o m ,
Others are saying this is a Microsoft Teams, have
major turning point, a black existed for quite some Continue on pg 12
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy. " — Steve Jobs,
co-founder of Apple
