It has been months since I last shared my thoughts in here. How have you been? How has COVID-19 "moved" you to do wonderful things for you and the people around you? It's never easy to make changes but the age-old truth is this "Change is here to stay. Either we adapt or perish".
So having said this, and knowing that our lives have been changed forever, why not embrace the idea that we are to adapt, adjust and survive?
All aspects of our lives are, and have been, affected by this pandemic. From the way we greet people, celebrate birthdays, bury our dead, eat in the restaurants, go to work, do our work, our lives will never be the same again...until that golden discovery or invention of treatment and vaccine for COVID-19. Let me clarify this: COVID-19 treatment will be available before the vaccine. At least that's what my friends and relatives in the medical sector believe. So until then, we really have to be extra careful.
And in the realm of education, yes, I happen to be a teacher and a sports coach. Our way of learning has taken a sharp turn. Don't get me wrong. With the invention of the Internet and reaching the "critical mass" or what others would love to call "tipping point", the way we learn and teach has changed and it changes with the availability of resources. Right resources.
So how does one learn in the 21st Century? Or in the 3rd millennium? Well for a start, we need to be aware of a lot of terms and widen one's vocabulary bank. Check this list:
- Social Media
- Internet
- China
- Hong Kong
- Trump
- Trumphism
- Pandemic
- All Lives Matter
- Black Lives Matter
- Nine-Dash-Line
- The New Normal
- Spox
- DDS
- Dilawan
- Cyberbullying
- Cybercrime
- Cyberpunks
- Bubonic Plague
- COVID-19
- WHO
- Earthquakes
- ECQ
- GCQ
- MGCQ
- Curfew
- LGBTQ
- Kardashian
- #Metoo
- #Pedo
- ABSCBN Franchise
- Wuhan Virus
- Online Learning
- Online Selling
- Zoom
- Yahoo
- Meets
- Zoom Bombing
- Platform
- .....
And I'm exhausted filling out the list.
If you and I, assuming we're both adults and teachers, get confused (and lost) with all these terminology, can you imagine the tremendous information learners need to grasp in a so-limited-restrictive-traditional way of learning? Overwhelming. Gigamongous! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius!
As a teacher to the middle schoolers, I caught this simple approach early on: Let the millennials lead the way in terms of technology use. Seriously!
Let the kids lead us and be a facilitator in the teaching and learning process. You read it right, facilitator.
I'd like to share some more but for now this will do. I have created a Google Site for my academic year 2020-2021 announcements and outpouts. Visit https://sites.google.com/view/coachfrancis/home
and let me know how I can have it improved (if needed).
This Site will help me simplify my online work for the schoolyear. Hope it helps you too.
Until then.
God bless!
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