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I have a daughter in kindergarten this year (and a son in 3rd grade), so I think I have a pretty decent experience with remote vs in-person kindergarten. Zoom
by lhorie 6y ago
I have a daughter in kindergarten this year (and a son in 3rd grade), so I think I have a pretty decent experience with remote vs in-person kindergarten.
Zoom bores my daughter. She doodles through class. The classes are deliberately short (30 min sessions) because good luck keeping two dozen kids engaged for longer through zoom. As the article mentioned, the social aspect is definitely missing. My 3rd grader gets a bit of it through breakout rooms with a couple classmates, but kindergarteners are too young for that, so most of classes is just sitting waiting for your turn to blurt out 3 words.
Academically, I'll be honest, school is a lowest common denominator. School is going over spelling sight words and counting to 100. My daughter has early 2nd grader reading skills and knows multiplication from playing games.
The same iPad that sucks so badly for zoom sessions is also a portal to the largest educational resource in the world. At this day and age of data abundance, academic success is what you make of it.
The social aspect is still largely missing, but since we're all stuck at home, my kids get to spend a great deal of time together. This means they fight a lot, but I suppose learning to handle conflict is also part of developing social skills, so </shrug>
- hermanradtke 6y ago> My 3rd grader gets a bit of it through breakout rooms with a couple classmates, but kindergarteners are too young for that... My daughter’s kindergarten class has multiple break out sessions per day via Zoom. The break out sessions are managed by the teacher. Remote learning for young children is tough, but I see good teachers making it tolerable. Luckily, out kids are going back to in person schooling after Spring Break is over.
- faitswulff 6y agoWhat games taught her multiplication?
- lhorie 6y agoThere are several that are provided by school like mathletics, but the one my kids really got into is called Prodigy[0] [0] https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/ https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/
- faitswulff 6y agoThanks!
- saargrin 6y agoi just feel really bad for kids whose parents are not tech savvy or rich enough to afford proper broadband and ipads by the end of this mess some kids are gonna be left so far behind i don't even know if they can ever catch up
- timeslip1523 6y agoHey, if the price of saving grandma is sacrificing some kids, so be it! We're all in this together, remember? Now watch these dancing nurses!
- lhorie 6y agoBeing in a well funded area helps. Here, the public schools provided chromebooks and meals for pickup to every student. Unfortunately I hear you that not everyone gets so lucky :(