This is the reason why the mute button exists.” Three seconds later, my daughter quietly says, ‘Shut up, Andrew,’ followed by laughs from my colleagues. My son starts yelling a question from the other room, and I make a face. “I was in a virtual meeting with our instructional team today. Make sure your volume is off when you intend it to be. Eric Rodriguez, chief of staff and former manager of education initiatives program at Intel (Phoenix, Arizona) Eric Rodriguez’s son dons his Miles Morales costume to class. “My son logged into his first zoom session with his other Kindergarteners, but dressed up as Miles Morales. Letting the students control their online narrative is key. Dan Adler, 6th Grade Science Teacher (Lawrence, Mass.)ģ. So, I thought, ‘I have too much hair, and I want to give kids something to come together and laugh about.’” It was my second Zoom class, and I was trying to think of ways to encourage my students to come to ‘class.’ I also canceled my haircut last week because I didn’t think it was essential. Well, more specifically, my wife shaved my head. “I held a virtual class today and shaved my head on it. Struggling to keep kids engaged? Shave your head.
Hence, I told my class to make sure everyone in their house is wearing pants! One turned up in his pajamas today…” “The partner of a teacher walked past the Zoom meeting wearing just his underpants! Yep, he had no pants on. Pants-less incidents seem to be trending in the virtual world. And along the way, we’re experiencing small moments of brevity that remind us that-despite how disconnected we may feel physically-we are still all very commonly human in our shared foibles and creative approaches to the unique challenge.Īs such, after chatting with educators across the globe, I’ve selected my ten favorite moments from the current world of virtual teaching-ones that demonstrate both the hilarity and humanity of this moment in time.ġ. It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures.īut in the midst of all of this, we’re learning and experimenting together on how best to engage and motivate students and teachers online. With the swift shift to remote learning, educators and education entrepreneurs alike are quickly learning that trying to replicate what happens in classrooms on an online conference call comes with a lot of ups and downs. And we’re only a quarter of the way through. Let’s just cut to the chase-2020 has been an extremely tough year thus far.
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