I’m teaching a class (face-to-face) at a local university this semester. At the same time, our older son, 18, just left home to attend college in Alabama.
I guess you could say we are both on the front lines in the battle of College vs. COVID.
It’s too early to project a winner in this chess game, but we can begin to see how it is playing out.
Here are some early observations.
Our son reports that he spent about 90 minutes in face-to-face classes in his first week at school. Other instructional time has been via Zoom or self-directed learning. One day, Zoom was shut down completely, he said, and another day the Wi-Fi in his dorm was spotty. Even online learning, it seems, is not glitch-free.