On Monday, March 16, the Berkeley Haas administration notified us that classes would be going remote, by Wednesday I was taking my first Negotiations class via Zoom and by Friday evening I was already on a plane back to Philadelphia.
As COVID-19 continues to ravage the country and “some colleges are preparing (quietly) to deliver better online learning at scale if needed,” now seems like an excellent time to discuss remote learning’s effects on the most marginalized students.
My professor and I operated the independent study like a book club and sought to understand the effects of emerging technology on marginalized populations in urban environments.
I loved the course and professor but never imagined a class so heavily reliant on discussion and mock negotiations could do well on Zoom.
Now that schools are in summer recess and administrators are urgently planning for the fall, this is the perfect time to think critically about the type of educational experience we want students to have.
