Sarah Gibbard Cook
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Old Dogs, New Tricks

4/27/2020

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Having been an expert in your field for decades doesn’t make you adept at the technology to teach online. Broadly speaking, with exceptions of course, those at highest risk from coronavirus by age are the ones least accustomed to electronic communications. Daughters and sons home from school help their faculty parents figure out how to teach in the era of social distancing.

​The rest of us have been learning new technologies, too. My sympathies to everyone working from home for the first time, expected to keep up a normal pace of productivity in these abnormal times.

Remote communications also challenge community volunteers, support groups, religious leaders and worshipers, teachers of guitar and yoga. Zoom and its online cousins are expanding my skill set. We can’t visit museums or travel just now, but each day brings unsolicited opportunities to learn and explore.
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Connie GIll
4/27/2020 08:38:08 am

I love the phrase "unsolicited opportunities."

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Sarah Cook link
4/27/2020 09:15:38 pm

Connie, glad that worked for you. It's not exactly as though we chose some of these things we're learning to deal with.

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