Hundreds of thousands of Canadian public school students went back to school without leaving home on Monday, as a new learning-from-home framework amid the coronavirus pandemic officially got underway in Ontario and Prince Edward Island.
John Ippolitto, an Associate Professor at York University's Faculty of Education as well as a father of three elementary school children, shared a message of calm to families navigating the rapidly changing system, as well as optimism for what learning at home and e-learning might bring.
"This is an unprecedented state of affairs and the response to it is an unprecedented one — and it's not going to be perfect," says Ippolito.