Hi everyone! Hope everyone is doing well! It seems like the semester started, but it is wrapping up. Unfortunately this will be my last post here on blogger. Today I would like to simply reflect on an article from the 2021 Horizon report. I read an article on Social Trends. In this article it discussed how teaching and learning are a social practice, then they lead into talking about 2020 when covid hit and many schools were turned to remote learning. I really thought those who wrote this article did a great job at explaining how although the pandemic may be close to over, that teachers and staff will have to keep learning new ways of innovation for teaching and learning. Throughout 2020 and 2021 as we all know how challenging it was to learn in a remote learning environment, but this article shows that with all the technology and remote learning we have today we will see a widening of the digital divide. As Horizon shares in their article report, many students have or will fall behind due to the remote learning they endured during the pandemic. Reading and seeing first hand how remote / digital learning can affect how a student learns or where they stand in their education is shocking and is hard to grasp. A connection I made with this article was on the topic of mental health issues. Not only did I but many others students suffered with mental health issues during the pandemic. Due to the isolation and lack of social connections with others it has been proven that the pandemic has caused many who never had problems before to have mental health issues. Having mental health issues can make a student struggle in learning and with interactions with others. I feel that I chose a great article, I was able to make connections and see another perspective on the impact of the pandemic. This may be the last post, but it was great to make a connection with something so important in education! 😃
