#Amnesia followed by death free#

(For more on pandemic-inspired edtech, see this column I wrote in February.) Contingency Planning: No Longer a Forgotten Art The pandemic made online learning a familiar companion, one that weвЂ™re not likely to put back into PandoraвЂ™s box.

#Amnesia followed by death free#

Grow with Google, which started as an internal up-skilling tool, has turned into a widely-used free path to a good job. A few of the factors tilting the scale towards mass adoption of remote learning are cloud-based delivery systems, AI thatвЂ™s used to determine a personalized path forward, and the ability to attract great teachers to such systems and make them accessible to large numbers of students irrespective of geography or wealth. MasterClass, Skillshare, Canvas, and their ilk, long thought to be educational supplements, quickly moved to the core of educational offerings. The Indian edtech giant Byju raised over a billion dollars last year and is now valued at $15 billion. Global Silicon Ventures (GSV) raised $225 million to invest in edtech in a вЂњblank checkвЂќ IPO or SPAC in January. Coursera, a well-known MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) provider, is now set to go public. households with school-aged children moved to some form of online learning.) Scott Galloway, a noted business professor, suggests the pandemic greased the wheels for big tech to step in and offer compelling alternatives to $50K/yr in-person college educations. As just about all learning went remote, academic institutions got past dragging, and moved into kicking and screaming. Now that we can see that our behavior can dramatically reduce atmospheric pollution, do we have the collective wherewithal to sustain the positive outcomes we saw? EducationДЄcademic institutions have dragged their heels over adopting edtech for decades. Validation from scientific organizations proves the point. Air quality improved, sunsets appeared as smog disappeared. As commuter traffic decreased so did carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions. Seven centuries later, our worldwide pandemic pause saw a global reduction in pollution, especially in pollutants caused by the burning of fossil fuels. During the Black Death pandemic (1349-1353) scientists have found that lead levels in the atmosphere dropped to basically zero.

An entire body of literature corroborates theories about how climate change creates conditions favorable to pandemics - extreme weather and changes in animal migratory routes being two of them.ДЄt the same time, pandemics give Mother Nature a much needed reset.

What about you? Climate ChangeД¬limate change has been linked to introduction of new types of zoonotic (animal born) viruses. Here are a few areas that offer, I hope, forget-me-not lessons. The risk lies in forgetting everything weвЂ™ve learned, diving back into the worst habits of our pre-pandemic ways. WeвЂ™ll spend the rest of eternity unpacking its lessons. The past 12 months have tested us to a near biblical degree. She gives you the test first and then gives you the lessons.

Experience, itвЂ™s been said, is a tough teacher.