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I think the discussion is "what happens when zoom goes down?" -- and the college professor said "use blackboard". A first grader with a locked down computer se
by tingletech 6y ago
I think the discussion is "what happens when zoom goes down?" -- and the college professor said "use blackboard". A first grader with a locked down computer set up for zoom won't be able to install blackboard.
- sukilot 6y agoInstall? It's a website.
- kiwijamo 6y agoBeen years since I used it, but it doesn't have video conferencing functions does it? (Honest question).
- notahacker 6y agoHow many kids are missing how many minutes of education from their parents and teachers being unable to find any digital devices with the ability to access webconferencing services other than Zoom? Periodically losing connectivity is an occupational hazard of doing things with webconferencing made worse if the people at each end aren't particularly computer literate. But I'm not sure Zoom lockin ranks high on the list of threats to kids' education right now.
- tingletech 6y agoidk, but isn't that the article was about, zoom going down like it did for lots of schools last week?
- notahacker 6y agoSure, but the article has somehow turned that into us being more dependent on Zoom than mobile networks and banks. And the reality is Zoom is much easier to switch away from if and when its outages are more than temporary inconveniences.