A benefit of online schooling

Resorting to online schooling during the pandemic has engendered many challenges. But there’s an idea that a benefit will be increased computer literacy among many segments of the population that heretofore have not had the resources or inducement toward such.

A recent study of the daily habits of almost fifty-thousand adults showed that the percentage of waking hours where people are staring into a smartphone, computer, or television screen is, on average, only 21.7%. We have far to go toward the optimum (variously estimated to be in the range of 70%–90%). Familiarity with online schooling could motivate the current generation toward later-in-life inclination for online working, shopping, investing, gaming, exercising, gardening, writing, meditating, gambling, blogging, birdwatching, rapping, reading, candle making, collecting, detecting, crocheting, homebrewing, journaling, juggling, jiggling, metalworking, palmistry, quilling, quilting, sculpting, weaving, backpacking, camping, cycling, foraging, fossicking[?], herping, kayaking, letterboxing, yo-yo-ing, mountaineering, sailing, scouting, knitting, skydiving, farming, antiquing, bodybuilding, modeling, tumbling, twirling, cheerleading, curling, woodworking, sewing, dancing, sketching, debating, shoemaking, fencing, skating, racing, role-playing, speedcubing, trapshooting, beekeeping, fishkeeping, baking, winemaking, gunsmithing, drawing, surfing, scrapbooking, aquascaping, sculling, blacksmithing, hunting, rappelling, vacationing, bathing, dating, and relationships in general.

The situation may impact my own, personal, situation for the better. I’ve been inclined to dislike both schooling and the cybernization of life. Perhaps this is my opportunity to finally get with the program.