Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
by sailfast on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:17PM
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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?
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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
by cbo100 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:07PM
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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
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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
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Probably referring to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air