Contributed by Jennifer Brice
“Surprisingly, the discussions in my video classes have been better than those in the live era,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen in this New York Times op-ed about teaching on Zoom (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/zoom-video-school-teaching.html). He acknowledges the trade-offs (warmth and spontaneity v. connection and convenience) but comes down on the side of remote technology, especially (maybe tongue-in-cheek?) with regard to faculty meetings. Mr. Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who received an honorary doctorate from Colgate in 2019, invites us to think about which lessons or tools we might like to keep in our post-pandemic teaching.
