Lessons from the pandemic - The change to education

 While MOOCs massive open online courses where already a thing before the pandemic, the pandemic with its quarantining, social distancing, and classroom shutdowns accelerated the pace of their development and practice.

Here's a great TED video by Tyler Dewitt explaining the advantages to online learning.

What experiences and thoughts do you have with online learning?

Making it easier to vote does not threaten election integrity

In statehouses across the country, hundreds of bills have been introduced to change how elections are run, who can vote and how they vote. Many of the bills sponsored by Republicans aim to undo changes election officials made in 2020 to make voting easier during the pandemic.

Those changes led to a record number of people voting last year. Yet the GOP bills would make voting harder. Their sponsors say it’s worth it because the proposed legislation would make elections more secure against fraud, writes political scientist Douglas Hess. Only one problem: There’s no evidence that making it easier to vote leads to more fraud.

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To attempt to restrict voting is in direct violation of the fifth principle of Unitarian Universalism which is covenant together to affirm and promote the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.

What's going on in Mississippi?

One thing Donald Trump might have been right about is "fake news." We learned this week, the week of February 28, 2021, that Texas and Mississippi have lifted their mask mandates. In Mississippi, the local TV news are reporting neighborhood cougar sightings.

 

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