The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
This is an odd opinion piece to have made it to HN front page. It&#x27;s essentially a collection of unsubstantiated claims that would likely have no impact to policy even if they were demonstrably true because the driving factor is human safety and not efficacy or ease of teaching.<p>Remote teaching may be harder, require more work, and have pitfalls that are quickly overcome in person. Much more useful would be a collection of ways to mitigate them, rather than an airing of grievances.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m being too hard on this, and it&#x27;s just a good serving up of the real conversation. So, what are other folks doing to overcome the difficulties outlined in the article?<p>Reading the room, avoiding distraction, using humor, and inability to establish command.<p>On the last note, I will say that I believe it&#x27;s a red herring. The most soft spoken person, who clearly has a passion to share their subject, will be easily gifted this by a willing audience. Even over Zoom.