Hello, readers, and welcome to the final “Studies in Self-Isolation” blog post before the summer holiday (or, alternatively, the first post of the summer!). The world is wildly different than when I last wrote for this series, with the anti-racism protests continuing to channel discontent and outrage at racial injustice around the world, and with […]
Greetings, readers! Welcome to the fifth entry in my blog series, “Studies in Self-Isolation”, where I offer a student perspective on everything from e-learning to coping with the stress surrounding the pandemic. It’s been over two months since school was in session before the March Break and about eight weeks of this lockdown living. I […]
Welcome to the third post in my “Studies in Self-Isolation” series. In today’s post, I’ll be writing about coping with the change to this quarantined way of life and all the stresses that come with it. Handling ongoing uncertainty during a global pandemic is becoming increasingly difficult, as every day brings a new wave of […]
April 2nd Today marks the eighth day of remote learning for CDS students and faculty, and with each passing day we continue to gain new insights, establish new individual and shared goals, and make exciting inroads as we grow accustomed to this new way of learning and teaching. For the past few weeks, we have […]
Greetings and welcome to my second post aimed at providing a student perspective on the current state of schooling and living under social distancing because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Only one four-day week of remote schooling has gone by, but to me, it strangely seems as though we’ve been doing this method of learning […]
March 24, 2020 Hello and welcome to my “self-isolation” series as part of the CDS Education with Balance blog. I’m Christina, a Grade 11 student at the School. In the coming days and weeks, weekly bundles of entries written by me will be posted here as a way of sharing a student perspective on recent […]