Frontal teaching in videoconferences - Is there a better solution?

When I watch my 15-year-old daughter, I sometimes feel really sad how she sits in front of the screen hour after hour, silently listening to the lessons. It makes me realize that in the 21st century we are doing sometimes exactly the same teaching as in the 20th century, only with elaborate electronics. Isn't it time to find something better here, when we already have such great technology?

I'm not sure and would love your ideas and feedback. We have developed a tool where you can hold complex group conversations based on video messages. This means that everyone responds when they have time. But it also means that the activity rate of the participants' increases. They no longer sit passively, but actively click from conversation thread to conversation thread. Everyone can have their say and the teacher can respond individually to each student. Esp. for Q&A sessions this is very helpful.

We plan to position the tool for distributed, professional teams.

However, I keep thinking that for teachers and students who want to move away from pure frontal teaching, this might also be a pretty helpful tool? If confirmed, that would have quite an impact on our development and business models, but I would just need to know.

We must also not forget that students are really affected by Zoom Fatigue Syndrome and we urgently need a solution to bring them from passive consumption to an active role. The whole generation alpha is suffering and I think we urgently have to invent new tools for them.

Your ideas, thoughts, and feedback would be extremely helpful at this early stage. You can just sign up, the tool is in open beta, and test it. Especially the opinion of educators and teachers would be important and would help us to decide if we should develop timz.flowers in this direction (the name is because the meetings look like flowers drawn by a child). I'm not sure, perhaps you can help me build an opinion. Could this be of help? What is missing?

Ok, thanks for your feedback and greetings from the team.

Submitted April 14, 2021 at 09:34PM by timzflowers https://ift.tt/2Qu9UxF