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Stephen Downes

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This article isn't cohesive, but it's an interesting look at accounts of 'the new normal' from various sources. Will it be online? Will there be social distancing? Will in-person schools take a hit? The answer is "yes and no" to all of these. And then there's this: " t is highly unlikely that online study will be the 'new normal' for most of these students (although we may expect to see attempts to move towards more blended approaches). There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the most glaringly obvious is that the function of schools is not exclusively educational: child-care, allowing parents to go to work, is the first among these."

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