These are critical skills for the future in a change-based order. In addition, the opportunities for children to exercise agency to engage in real-life experience to creative-problem solve in an empathic and team-based manner is rapidly diminished. The richness of peer-to peer dialogue, the lack of play and experimentation is staggering. Worksheets have moved towards a digital platform – most of the outputs are completed in 20% of the time. At the moment, my children are interestingly navigating the same learning goals and outcomes using a zoom call or a power-point sheet to fill or even perhaps to read an article or watch a video. The other places of tension are around educators and schools to provide high quality learning experiences at home. Families of differently abled children, are burdened further as they have less resources to rely on to allow for development of their children and young adults in their care. Friendship and social interactions are often deep experiences children from low-income communities crave for in terms of further engagement. For more poorer children, where school is “safe space” to escape their heavy burden of chores at home, domestic violence or simply the possibility of learning and connecting with friends is felt deeply. For children from rich households, the access to computers and resources ensure some continuity in their experiences and learning. The inequity of education and access to learning is the obvious one – as many children are unable to access to learning resources. Home-based Learning driven by the lock-downs and “circuit-breakers” around the world are surfacing many issues for all parts of societies. Incidentally, it was about the same time a group of young entrepreneurial technology novices created some of the giants in our world today – Google, Facebook that have re-shaped the way we live, work and learn. Young people – the growing up years and their learning experiences have been fascinating me since my oldest son was born 15 years ago. If we are willing to re-imagine, take action and weave in a shift towards a better world, as a society we could mobilize much more. At a time, when we are dealing with so many different serious and real issues – are we perhaps able to indulge and think differently. The opportunities that CoVid-19 is creating for mankind is provocative. A series of reflections on young people, learning and social change to enable a new consciousness to arise from this time
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