For teachers and students, remote learning during COVID-19 poses challenges, stokes creativity.
"On the kids' end, they're all using different providers, they are using different devices and it really is hard to navigate technical problems," said Sara Hansen, a fifth-grade teacher at Cloverleaf Elementary.
This report is part of"Pandemic – A Nation Divided," ABC News' special coverage of the heightened racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tune into"Nightline" for a three-day series starting tonight, 12 a.m. ET on ABC. Sue Dynarski, a professor of economics, education and public policy at the University of Michigan, says the digital divide has existed for a long time and that the pandemic has only brought it into"sharp focus," revealing"enormous inequalities."
Melissa Meza, a kindergarten teacher at Dual Language Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, teaches her class in Spanish. Michelle and Patrick Sanchez's son is a first-grader at Dual Language Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They say remote learning has worked for them because they've both been able to pitch in.
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