It’s a revolution in education – future students will study you!
SO rare it is to make history, but such is your achievement, class of 2020!
Future students will look back at the COVID-19 crisis, impressed by the fortitude, resilience and bravery of today’s students and teachers.
They will regard quizzically how we adapted to Kahoot, Zoom and Loom, and see an education system literally changing in a blink, historically speaking, though hiatus gripped all else.
Google Classroom and GSuite became our new norms.
Could Graham Bell ever have envisioned pocket telephone concepts like the quirkily named Androids and Apples, becoming the medium of diffusion and instruction, opening up even our far-flung ends to education’s light?
This troublesome time for some can boast to be the pinnacle of a Renaissance for others. When else can it be said that a generational plague could spark such creativity and originality, as tools like
Spark Adobe and even TikTok have counted their way into educational uses?
With predictive grading, rest assured that all your work and worry is now over. Your teachers will reflect your labours faithfully, giving credit to two years of devotion to your studies. Remember fondly those class tests and six-page essays over the past two years, knowing that they are no longer wasted exercises, but instead your indelible stamp, the pages in which you wrote yourselves into history.
Look forward with relish to writing those college assignments next year. What a simple ask after all this fuss. Don’t worry about what is to come. As JRR Tolkien puts it, “Even the very wise cannot see all ends”.
Your teachers are now busy representing your performance.
The next few steps will be a cake-walk. You have already made history, class of 2020; You are authors of your own Case Study – Moon landing, eat your heart out!