IT GOING TO BE A LONG HARD JOURNEY
“Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably
emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our
“Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job
with yesterday’s tools—with yesterday’s concepts.”― The Medium is the Massage
“There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.”
― My Life, My Love, My Legacy
― My Life, My Love, My Legacy
It’s roughly 6:30 AM in the morning and I’m on the couch trying to grab an
extra 10 minutes of sleep. I’d come out here around 4, with the intent of
starting the day’s writing, but instead, here I am, grasping for a few
winks.
At some point, my boy has come out. He turns 10 next month and he’s still
an early riser. I hear him rustling around on the chair across the
room.
“What are you doing?”, I ask.
“That second unit of Florida Virtual School I have to have done by
today.”
I cringe a little, Yesterday he’d tackled the first one and ended up
scoring a 56 on the attached quiz. A score that had set off tears and
frustration. He’d never scored that low on schoolwork before and was unsure
how to process it. We’d decided to hold off tackling the second unit till
today. After all the beauty of asynchronous work is its inherent
flexibility.
Virtual learning has been a challenge for families. With a wife who is a school teacher and two middle school kids, adapting
has taken a lot of bandwidth on a lot of levels. It’s kind of a mini-miracle
that a computer hasn’t sailed through a window at our house. This morning my
6th-grade daughter had a come apart over adjusting to percussion instruction
on line. But things are CONTINUE READING: IT GOING TO BE A LONG HARD JOURNEY – Dad Gone Wild