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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by zelphirkalt on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:07PM (#24216498)
But what about children in Australia, where remote teaching has been done for many years? Are they all somehow specially gifted children, so that they manage?
Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by function_seven on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:29PM (#24216813)
I don't know all that much about how it's done there, so I can't really answer that.

I'm assuming you're talking about kids in the Outback, where vast distance makes it harder to have classroom instruction?

There was a recent NYT article about that[0], and my takeaway is that it's really homeschooling with support from teachers. Not a Zoom videoconference where they fake like they're in the same classroom. The parents are much more involved in the early years. Once the kids are old enough to know how to learn, then it can become more of an instruction/homework style of teaching rather than what's required for preschool and Kindergarten kids.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/world/australia/australia...

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by sailfast on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:17PM (#24216650)
Can you say more about the format of remote learning in Australia? Age ranges? How much video per day? In my school district, they are looking at 4 hours (2, 2-hour blocks) of "live learning" in-person per day, for 5-6 year olds. I can't imagine they're doing that in Oz?
Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by cbo100 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:07PM (#24218386)
I can only assume they are talking about “school of the air”. Very much not the norm here, it’s very remote students hours from towns taking school remotely.

It was 1 way or 2 way radio back in the day, now wiki says it’s 1 way video stream with 2 way voice.

From wiki... “ Each student typically spends one hour per day receiving group or individual lessons from the teacher, and the rest of the day working through the assigned materials with a parent, older sibling or a hired home-stay tutor.”

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by zelphirkalt on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:44AM (#24232933)
This is interesting!

These children might develop an amazing self-sufficiency or some advanced self-organization skills (if they manage to deal with it well). I often wonder how I myself would have turned out, if I had been taught this way or similarly.

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by jimktrains2 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:54PM (#24218301)
Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by kubanczyk on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:35PM (#24218969)
Finally a comment that makes some sense. This should be near the top, really.