ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects upon the swift integration of online communication technologies in schools in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the years, educational authorities in Israel expressed concern over children’s use of online media and were reluctant to admit online communication, and especially social media, into schools. This radical conversion was performed mostly in local settings as headmasters, teachers, students, and parents had to invent and to adjust almost overnight to mediated communicative practices. The video casts doubt on the notion that online learning can simulate the classroom. The pandemic and the lockdown it entailed forced the education system to adopt distance learning technologies and social media overnight.
