UNIT 1 VIDEO HANDOUT

LINK TO VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1xtu-

ZWLJs&ab_channel=TheUniversityofChicago

PART 1: Watch and listen to the video. Make notes so that you can answer
these questions IN GROUPS:

1. What are two advantages of COVID 19 in terms of education?

2. Do you think we have this digital divide in Chile?
3. What concerns have arisen in terms of using technology in education?

PART 2: Vocabulary: what is the speaker referring to when he uses these

expressions?

Socratic dialogue - Seamless fashion - Digital device - Broadband policy –

Shrinking the digital divide- in person experience- on a daily basis- to call on someone-

Swap in/out – to augment - Figure out - To get ideas in- what comes around along with (it)

(Now take a look at the grammar ppt)

PART 3: CHALLENGE: Work in groups. What sentences could be rewritten

using MANAGE TO, SUCEED IN AND COULD?

1. Things that had been hard in the past, bringing in guest speakers, being in multiple
campuses at once, the ability to tie those together in a much more seamless fashion,
I think that’s exciting. Distance shrinks in this medium, and I think we’re going to
see it used throughout education in the United States at precollege level, college,
professional level. That’s exciting across the planet.

2. There’s definitely been a trend towards remote learning, but I think that’s been
unevenly distributed. This is going to give us a second set of tools. We’ve had one
way of doing things, and now we’re going to have an additional way of doing things.
And I think that’s what’s exciting.

3. It’s just like you’re a chef or something where, all of a sudden, they’ve said, here’s
an entirely new set of ingredients you’ve never worked with. To really make this
technology work and to do so on the widest-possible basis, we need to have the
physical infrastructure in place to do that.

FOR NEXT CLASS: BRAIN GYM: CHOOSE A SENTENCE OF THE VIDEO. TRY TO
SAY IT EXACTLY AS THE SPEAKER DOES. How do you feel? Does your body language
change?

TRANSCRIPT:
https://news.uchicago.edu/videos/covid-2025-how-explosion-remote-learning-changes-
education-randal-picker