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A key to keeping Kindergartners engaged in distance learning can be challenging. Personalizing lessons and giving brain breaks can help young students stay engaged during short synchronous sessions. As an educator you have to find creative ways to keep children attention on the screen especially since they're in the comfort of their home with all their toys and all the other luxury's within the house they desire. It is hard to keep their attention in the classroom so virtual learning now becomes extremely harder.

Secondary school age students have to be extremely disciplined and focused in order to be successful in virtual learning. Just like being at an actual school, these pre-teens and teenagers have to make sure they are presentable/looking good before logging onto their classes and have to greet all of their friends and turn off their cellphones before the lesson begins because that will be a big distraction for them just as it would in the classroom. Some of the same problems that exist at school have the potential of existing at home with virtual school.

Virtual school is no longer just for high school or college students. Today it has become necessary for all students to be taught virtually due to the current pandemic COVID 19 we have been plagued with. Before younger children were engaged in websites like Hooked on Phonics, ABC Teach, Sesame Street, Leap Pad, and ABC Mouse to name a few which were interactive learning sights which did repeatitive rote memory learning for children through dancing and singing. Now teachers have to use State approve curriculum based websites which work through modules and have accountability for students. Even students as young as two who are enrolled in programs such as HeadStart are required to reach certain benchmarks by a certain age according to the State standards.

The tools were easy to teach, and the kids caught on very quickly.

The kids loved using the tools, particularly the chat feature.

The tools needed to be used sparingly, as the students’ interest in using them lessened over time.

The kids loved using the tools, particularly the chat feature.

Calkins, Ruth. "How to Keep Kindergartners Engaged in Distance Learning". Edutopia. Retrieved 2020-12-14