Zoom-School Needs New Ideas: Constructing a Classzoom that Works

Barbara Castleton, M.A.
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readJan 11, 2021

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Intensive English student, 18-year old Minh, connects to a communication platform, clicks on a class, and enters.

Writing IV students meeting online

Gone are the usual human stimuli: movement, gesture, action, eye to eye contact, touch, and bodies.

Present are postage stamp images with perhaps a larger image for the teacher.

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Barbara Castleton, M.A.
Age of Awareness

Writer, teacher, seasonal ex-pat— my life is both an intentional and serendipitous circumstance. Mottos — “Buy the ticket, and go!” “Offer help where you can.”