Online education can be a great way for children to learn if we do it right

While the pandemic continues to pack powerful and painful punches, online learning has been and will be something we all have to learn, and work better on, to improve educational experiences for students, especially for those who can’t access physical classrooms.

Purposefully designed online education plays a crucial role in our modern education system and provides a vital alternative for many students and families, pandemic or not.

Why, then, are so many families struggling with it? In some recent headlines it has been called cruel, ridiculous and harmful to children. Some frustrated and angry parents are even boycotting online learning altogether.

The biggest problem is most classroom teachers who have been forced to deliver their programs online were trained to teach in classrooms, not on platforms such as Zoom. Another real problem with most online learning today is that the pandemic has created the conditions for it to be the only option at times. Juggling parenting, working and schooling at home is difficult, especially during a pandemic.

However, struggling with online learning is not an inevitable outcome. Let’s read about how Dr, Suzanne Chishole, Vice Principal at SIDES, a public online school in Victoria, Canada, thinks about how online education can be a great way for children to learn if we do it right.

Visit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-online-education-can-be-a-great-way-for-children-to-learn-if-we-do-it/ to learn more.