As the media has conveyed, shutting schools to students has taken quite a toll on learning, parents’ lives, and kids and teens’ mental health. I started hearing horror stories from other friends who had school aged kids in March 2020, when schools in Ontario and most of Canada shut their doors to students. In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, distance learning did not kick in until late at public...

Covid-19 is creating a vaccum in higher education in Canada where Ed Tech will step in. The question is: will it be to students' benefit? As in person classes at schools and universities stopped in Canada and most of the western world in March 2020, a void appeared in terms of teaching. School teachers or university professors could not immediately continue teaching through online technology,...