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Not to discount your experience, it is a useful data point showing it can work, but almost any learning scheme that begins with willing PhDs teaching a group of
by seneca 5y ago
Not to discount your experience, it is a useful data point showing it can work, but almost any learning scheme that begins with willing PhDs teaching a group of well-behaved children (with parents that care enough to put them in a special school) is incredibly more likely to succeed. These are the sorts of people who could be left in a cave with some rocks and would likely come out more informed. You can't extrapolate from that to the general public.
Maybe that's obvious to you, but it's a factor that seems to be routinely ignored when discussing educational outcomes.
- troupe 5y agoMy point is that it is very possible to create a good academic environment online. It is also possible to create a horrible academic environment online and most of what I've seen people complaining about "zoom classes" are classes where no one really cared enough to even try. And in those cases it isn't that the classes aren't working for the poor students...it is that they aren't working for anyone. It isn't the technology that is the problem. It isn't the fact that the classes are taught online that is the problem. The problem is that you have to actually try to make an online class work well.