Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
by function_seven on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:29PM
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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.
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...