E-learning in Ontario: Follow this family as they adjust to school at home (Day 4)
Kitchener couple Carin Lowerison and Matt White are trying to support their three elementary-school age girls: Berkeley, Heidrun, and Clementine, as they learn from home during COVID-19.
With the first week of more formalized at-home learning behind them, Matt White and Carin Lowerison have some ideas about where they went wrong, and where they can improve week two for their three daughters: Clementine, 5, Heidrun, 9, and Berkeley, 11 as they stay home from school due to COVID-19. (Submitted by: Carin Lowerison)
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As at-home learning becomes more formalized in Ontario during COVID-19, many parents are realizing it's harder than they expected.
The daily assignments from teachers are taking longer than anyone hoped; what was supposed to be a simple hour-long self-directed activity takes much longer. That's on top of the regular parenting, work, feeding everyone and keeping the house clean.
So if, at the start of this new week, you're hoping to get a better handle on learning from home, Carin Lowerison and Matt White can sympathize.
The couple lives in Kitchener with their three daughters: Clementine, 5, is in senior kindergarten, Heidrun, 9, is in Grade 4, and their Berkeley, 11, is in Grade 6.
Here's the whole family's take on how week one went, and what a fresh start will look like for week two.
Jackie Sharkey is the daytime radio news anchor for CBC News in her home province of P.E.I. She spent 10 years working as a producer, guest host and studio technician in Kitchener, Ont. and helped launch the station when it was created in 2013. She has also worked for CBC in Kelowna, B.C., Quebec City and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
