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Re:The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom by gridlockd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:20AM (#23830985)
Like you say, it's not visible. We are forcing children to sit idle and pretend to listen to the teacher, which is an entirely unnatural thing for to them to do for several hours per day.

I would argue that children would actually learn a lot more social skills by interacting in this "disruptive" and "slacking off" kind of way, especially nowadays where children are otherwise locked up at home by overprotective parents. Those skills are far more valuable than whatever trivia the curriculum is mostly made up of.

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Re:The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom by rgblambda on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:31AM (#23831068)
Increasing break times I think would have a better effect at improving children's social skills. Perhaps it's a difficult pill for educators to swallow that the most important skill children learn at school doesn't involve them.
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