How COVID-19 Will Change K-12 Education Forever
We live in unprecedented times, but these lifestyle changes are quickly becoming the new normal. When elite university shuttered their doors to college students, it should have been a signal to K-12 education that these protective health measures would be here to stay.
Yet many districts weren’t prepared for the unfortunate reality that schools would have to close and students stay home. So many teachers and students are confronted with the reality of virtual learning for the foreseeable future.
And even after COVID-19 passes and it’s but another chapter in our history books, its effects on society — and education in particular — will remain.
Because it’s no secret that technology has slowly been re-shaping our everyday lives and it’s also no secret that education has been one of the slowest to respond to these changes.
Even with many schools going one-to-one — that is, one device per student to use every day in the classroom and at home — it hasn’t dramatically changed how the education looks.
In fact, I would argue that while schools may have embraced the tools, they haven’t embraced a new way of learning.
When I was a teacher, for example, my school never had a technology strategy. They let teachers continue teaching however they…
