My grandsons are missing the time we have had with them on a bi-weekly basis for six or seven years now, and the youngest one has started to FaceTime us every day. He met with his classmates for the fist time yesterday and couldn't wait to tell us. He was so excited that he could see and talk to all his friends from school that he had an aura of joy surrounding his image (virtual, not literal) as he talked to us about the experience.
As we work in the new era of "virtual connections", I see more and more of a variety of people that are engaging firstly with increasing connectives, and secondly with a wider variety of occupations and disciplines. This seems a good thing to me as an educator and I hope it continues even after the threat we are now facing is subdued and overcome. Do we really want to go back to "things as usual" or should we move forward keeping what we are now discovering and using as a part of our "systems"?
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