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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by CDSlice on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:38PM (#23012431)
How do you keep the main teacher from getting out of sync with the students in the breakout sections? If a student needs 10 extra minutes with their group teacher to understand what is being taught how do they get caught back up to what the main teacher is covering? The only way I can see this working is if the main lecture is prerecorded, but at that point you just have a normal class except for where the group teacher has to do extra work to understand how the main teacher is explaining things. This may work better, but I'm not sure if it would be a massive improvement.

Furthermore, unless we suddenly hire a lot more teachers each student's group is going to essentially be their normal class and we are back to the whole class being kept back when someone needs extra help. Again, the only difference seems to be the main lecture is performed by someone besides the students' teacher. This could be better if the new teacher really is "world class", but I doubt it will be an extreme improvement.

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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:23PM (#23013368)
As a professor, I don't think exclusive online teaching is long term viable for university students let alone school children.

But a pre-recorded lecture is usually much shorter than a live lecture. The one-way communication of a one hour class can usually be condensed into a 10-20 min video recording. This is by using a script that optimizes the time to communicate the information in the best possible way.

The rest of the time should be spent learning by doing or talking to others.

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