Year 2020 will go down as the most unexpected and challenging year in history. 2020 forced us all to learn and adapt to a life we never though could be a reality. Normality became scarce and uncertainty is constant during this Covid-19 era. Working remote, home schooling, social distancing became a part of a pandemic controlled life. Parents had to learn to juggle working, parenting and yes home schooling. Covid-19 forced students to learn online in order to remain socially distant. Teachers and parents had to adapt to the new reality, and it’s virtual. Online chat, video, virtual classrooms became the major part of education.

Home schooling became attending school due to this worldwide pandemic. It would not be an exaggeration to say home schooling became the ultimate safety net for education continuity in 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

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Schools, universities and colleges had to think outside the box. Hybrid, certain portion of weekly classes were and still are taking place online and rest in campus with accordance with the CDC measures against Covid-19. Though there are vaccines in horizon, we may have to wait few more months to see the glimpse of normalcy we once knew. However during this adjustment could we not maximize online learning? Could we not use the tools at our disposal to broaden the horizon of learning minds?