How do we engage students in a virtual classroom?
We are embodied people, and face-to-face interaction with other humans is vital to our flourishing. How can students interact if their class doesn’t meet in person?
There are ways to enhance the social emotional experience for students, teachers and parents in a virtual classroom space. Connection through two layers of screens presents challenges, but is not impossible.
Marissa Di Pasquale, CEO of Mindsets Learning, and Tom Davis, director of business development at the Center for Educational Innovation, explain how we can re-engage students for real-world problem solving through a virtual platform. Some of the issues and barriers to this learning environment are equity to resources like broadband. Our spotlight guest, Andy Vaughn from Transportant shares how innovation helps to level the playing field.