Why do so many people assume that ‘remote learning’ is ‘online learning’, and that it has to involve lots of screen time?
What ever happened to learning from reading, writing, conversation, activities (like building or fixing things, or practicing an instrument or a sport or an art), and so on?
Remote learning just means doing most of your learning outside of school buildings, which is something that people have been doing for thousands of years — without networks, without computers, even without electricity.
It’s only remote schooling — which tries to take the least innovative and adaptable institution in modern society (i.e., schools), and squeeze it, more or less unchanged, through the tubes of the interwebs — that requires too much screen time.
