Valerie Lowes Discusses Online Learning

Valerie Lowes Discusses Online Learning

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Valerie Lowes is a mother to three children, and she’s been helping her children with online learning since the schools closed down because of COVID-19.

Valerie said online learning is going fine for her family. “It is definitely a challenge in the way of getting used to it and not having that face to face with the teacher. For myself, trying to help the kids learn and trying to understand the technology, which some days is better than others, is definitely different than when I went to school. But it also definitely makes it interesting. Also, the teachers have been really

great, they have been meeting with the kids during office hours where you can e-mail them or chat with them to try and figure out things.

The advantages are the kids are getting a different way of learning, and technology is the way things are going now. This will help them prep for university classes. It is also giving us a bit more family time. We do not always have to worry about homework right when they get home from school; we can go for a bike ride because we are working on online learning all day.

skills that they will need such as baking, going for bike rides, and teaching them woodworking. We cater to our children’s interests by finding things they like doing.

For a social life, we have been doing face time with friends and family, going for walks and seeing them across their driveway and talking to them that way,” said Valerie.“ Her parting words, “Everyone do your part, stay safe and we will get through this.”