Founder of Maatram Foundation Sujith Kumar offers insights into the challenging side of online classrooms
=There is a funny side to online classes, and it is on display, on YouTube. As a pandemic phenomenon, content creators prolifically post compilations themed “Online Classes Gone Wrong”. There is also carefully crafted content of students playing digital tricks on their teachers walking heavy-footed through the virtual-teaching landscape. Sample this from a video by humour channel “Alright”. A bunch of students, rambunctious and full of mischief, ask their maths teacher Rakesh Pathak to press Alt F4 to improve video quality. For the benefit of digital immigrants, by following the instruction, poor Pathak vanishes from the screen, having unwittingly disconnected himself from the online classroom.
We can chuckle and snortle as much as we want, but there is a distress…