Does Remote education work?

Now at this quarantine times, we have a lot of schools adopting the remote education method, but, after all, does this thing work?

In the way to understand the remote education, we have to first get knowledge about this sector, because not many people know how this rose and why it did. (just like me)

So, who invented the remote education? How does it work? Well, the first remote course that the humanity saw was made in Boston, by Mr Caleb Phillips, who teached shorthand (a technique to write fast.)

Mr Caleb posted in the newspaper an ad saying that he was selling a course to all Boston, and he would send the materials weekly, and students had to, well, study.

About one hundred years later, the University of Lund, in Sweden, adopted the method, by putting another shorthand course in their catalogue, and Isaac Pitman, the professor, encouraged the class to write the answers just like they would write an essay!

By the XIX century, remote education started to be used as a solution to people who lived away from universities to study. Some countries were: The United States, Sweden and Germany, France, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, Norway, South Africa, Argentina, Spain and many others.

Ok. Now we know how the remote education rose, and why. Now, let’s ask another question: Does it work, normally? Well. For that, we will have to split quite a bit the types of student. First, let’s look at the common child:

Let’s imagine this. There’s a 6-year-old British girl who got this year to the new school. She was very scared at first, but, after a week, she discovered that she could make awsome friends there. With some time, the girl starts to like her teachers and study more and more.

Then, something goes wrong. She can’t go to school or any other place anymore, her parents are worried and saying that everyone is getting sick. Her father stops seeing the news, but of the things she hears, the most common ones are death, sadness, protection, and crisis.

After almost a month, Schools decide to start teaching from distance. If you can’t get to school, the school gets to you. She then starts to face some interesting situations: Even if she sees all her friends, touching them, is impossible. It’s sad, but it’s all she can do. The distance and solitude are a big influencer, but, with the tedious rounding the house, she focuses on the classes, and even finds a way to play with her friends, by online games.

So, after all, it’s not so bad, is it? The child studies, her grades don’t fall and is all good. So, remote education works? Well, kind of. Why? I said that the whole thing was gonna be divided, so, I’m gonna continue this series and next time, we shall talk about how it affects the children with special needs.

Until the next talk!