The first day of being on COVID-19 Break from school went pretty well. I started the day by going into school and getting some work done in preparation for if we happen to be out for another month. The beauty of making these kind of preparations is that they work even if we come back to school. Everyone was kind of freaking out about online learning, but I’ve been doing that with my classes for years. In fact, I believe this is the future of teaching. As technology gets more sophisticated, this will be the way most of us go to school or at least learn content in the future.
After that I came home and got my own kids started on their assignments. We are all mainly working in computers even though my middle-schooler brought home his iPad. Things just work much better on a PC or a laptop than on a tablet. Even a Chromebook, which I use for a lot of my work, is a better option than an iPad.
After we spent a few hours on school work, it was time for some board games. We played Settlers of Catan and Galaxy Trucker. Then it was time for dinner and a movie on Netflix. So overall not a bad day. Tomorrow is looking to be pretty much the same.
We are planning on working some exercise into our schedule so that we don’t spend most of the day on the computer. So far its feeling like any snow day or extended weekend, we’ll see after we’ve spent a week together.
Living With Computers 