Learning in the New Normal 101

Who would have thought that at a young age of 19, COVID would be able to travel around the world? I wish it should have never been born in the first place. It's onset made a 360 degrees turn in our life. We adults especially are not used in mainstreaming ourselves in the digital world. But we have to embrace it, or else, defeat shall come early at our doorsteps. During initial stages of voluntary house arrest and staying at home, we all turned to our gadgets. It is our only companion in terms of connectivity in the outside world. The weeks that followed are a true test of what we were able to gain which made are lives more adaptable to the changes. New normal is abnormal in its truest sense! Learning in the new normal is not easy. It has to be embraced in its entirety. Blended learning and other different online platforms are the new in thing in to educate young people. The student and teacher is no longer confined in the four corners of the room but in the four corners of a Computer monitor, a laptop or a handy sleek gadget. Being in the 3rd world country like ours, digitizing might be able to have a new rank at par with Asian countries and we might be branded as belonging to the 2nd world country which I have never heard of. Embracing it loosely and tightly might give us headaches and heartaches. We will just embrace it. Period. :) #thistooshallpass