Shutdown Food for Thought: No Internet, Now What?

What a strange coincidence that I was halfway through drafting this email yesterday when I stopped to join my Superintendent's District-wide Q&A Google Meet. The first question posed by the group was exactly what I had started writing up.
There is no doubt in my mind that you've come across numerous articles, social media posts, emails, etc. in the past week and a half talking about leveraging technology for educating our students from a distance. It seems that screenshots of Zoom meetups and Google Meet sessions have become the new selfie. I've been guilty of it myself. No doubt, technology is/can be an amazing tool to continue some form of education in times like this. As I type this, my own kids are sitting at the same table working on Khan Academy to practice their Math skills before my son transitions over to his Pearson Realize account and my daughter Zooms with her friends to play their instruments together.
The one big problem that we need to keep in mind is that not all of our families are lucky enough to have an internet connection at home to do this. If we rely on technology to be our only route to an education, we're in for some big time problems down the road. Liz Kolb, from U of M, was recently quoted in an article on USA Today about the big problem with this saying, "One of the things that we know about online learning and virtual instruction is that it can increase some of the gaps that we have in education, especially around equity issues of low socioeconomic status students and more affluent students."
With that being said, simply sliding into a mode of handing out packets and worksheets to these students isn't good enough either. Not to say there isn't some value in paper work, but we have to be careful to provide "Powersheets" rather than "Busysheets." There's an excellent article (that you can also listen to in Podcast form) here that is an awesome reminder for us whether we're in Distance mode or Classroom mode.
But, above all, remember that your students' emotional wellbeing right now is far more important than any schoolwork you might be sending. If you've sent emails, do you know that they've been received by everyone? If you've read aloud to your elementary students on Facebook, have your students who don't have internet seen and heard you comforting them? If you've challenged your high school students to investigate exponential growth as a current event related to this crisis, how do they get their news without internet access?
I don't know the answers. I wonder the same thing about these emails I send to you. I know they're being read by some, but I don't know that they've reached everyone. I would challenge you to consider your communications to your students and to make sure your loving thoughts are getting through to everyone; often it's the students that are harder to reach who need to hear from you the most.