Media mentions: Professors discuss impact of COVID-19 on education; Alumna is on the frontline of fight against COVID-19
Professors discuss teaching and learning during COVID-19
Stephanie Jones and Hilary Hughes, both professors in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice and co-directors of the Red Clay Writing Project, share the impact of COVID-19 on education.
There is no shortcut in transforming face-to-face teaching and learning into homeschooling, online learning, or distance learning. Rather, education as we know it has changed for the foreseeable future to COVID-19 teaching and learning.
“This is not business as usual, and it is unethical to act as if it could be,” said Jones and Hughes in an AJC guest column. “No one can (or should) expect the COVID-19 schooling happening at home to be anything close to usual, and perhaps this moment is providing all of us a chance to do something different: learn to be.”
Read the full story on the AJC website.
Alumna is on the frontline of fight against COVID-19
Lauren English (B.S.Ed. ’12), an alumna of the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education and UGA’s former swim team co-captain (2011-2012), understands firsthand the crises hospitals are facing due to COVID-19.
English works as a neurology nurse at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. But these days, she isn’t limited to treating just those patients. She’s extended her role to caring for those infected with the coronavirus.
“Right now, that is what we’re dealing with,” said English, who was quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald. “This is what we have in our country. We have this crisis. I don’t think any health care worker is not faced with working with these patients.”