COVID-19 & Remote Learning: How to Make It Work

Through this article it chooses to discuss tips and give advice on how to make remote learning work for all schools. Education Week interviewed more than five dozen educators and experts, and examined numerous districts’ reopening plans as well as guidance from organizations that support remote and technology-enabled learning. The article offers tips, checklists, best practices, and expert advice on how to make teaching and learning at home engaging, productive, and equitable. The number of students using educational technology tools skyrocketed during full-time online learning this spring. The article also discusses the benefit of heading into the 2020-21 school year with remote learning. The benefit is that schools now have more data than ever before that can show the tools students use to learn, and how those tools are being used. Education Week talked to educators, school district technology directors, and senior executives from ed-tech companies to help educators understand how to make sense of technology usage data to evaluate the effectiveness of those tools in helping all students learn. My personal reaction to the article is that I'm still on the fence about remote learning. Remote learning as we have seen from experiencing it ourselves is tough. I always think about how much I hated it and how for me it was to focus. Just imagining these children actually having to sit and stare at a screen all day is impossible. Especially if me, as an adult can't do it, I can't expect that from these children. I will say this does help with school counseling because it gives me a new perspective on how to reach children. As much as covid has felt like a hindrance it was also helpful. As school counselors it gave us other techniques on how to be creative and unique, while being able to stay connected from a distance. Covid has been a whirlwind of new experiences for us all, but we handled every punch.