VSS 032 – You are never too old to learn

She was 50. She had staunchly kept away from computers and smartphones.

She did not need them in personal life. People at work understood her limitations and helped her around. She did not need the computer even for her work.

And then COVID struck the world and she realized that as a primary school Teacher, she had to connect to the Internet via a computer to connect to 'her kids'.

She scaled the steep learning curve and got over her technology inhibitions.

She is now beaming at her kids on the laptop. You are never too old to learn.   

 

 

 

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Teachers across the world had to re-skill themselves to meet the challenge of online schooling. A large population amongst the teacher were the not-so-young and they were not tech-savvy either. For them, the challenge was massive. Not only did they meet the challenge and got up to speech with tech, most of them have gone above and beyond to bring in the same level of warmth and ingenuity to the screen that they brought to the classroom.

Hats off to all the teachers, young and old, for dealing with the COVID catastrophe without giving up on the kids. For meeting the challenge head on and coming out on top. For being patient with kids and now, being super patient with the kids parents too, who can be more troublesome than the kids.

Note - VSS are Very Short Stories of less than 100 words. My attempt at writing 😊