![]() We forgot to download the app, but no matter the teacher’s Internet went out during the session, and the children were riotous and unmuted in their grid until, one by one, their grownups wearily signed them off. Yesterday, we got an e-mail from the music teacher with tidings of a new app, which the kindergartners were supposed to explore before their class. We have Remind and Konstella and our own version of Seesaw, and then we have e-mails in which the important information is accessed through an attached PDF. We, the children’s grownups, also have apps. There’s an app that looks like a video game but will allegedly teach her how to code. There is also a math app called Dream Box and a reading app called Lexia and a video app called BrainPOP, which is not part of the kindergarten curriculum but which my daughter can use to watch animated videos about elections or ancient Egypt. The children are supposed to do things in their main app, Seesaw, where small red notifications of the kind that haunt adult dreams pile up. The teacher is heroic, but the fact remains that the main event is twenty daily minutes of a humming, glitching grid of faces. Online kindergarten takes place in two or three discrete chunks between the hours of eight-fifteen and two-twenty, and the schedule is different every day of the week. ![]() My older child is doing online kindergarten, and it is not going very well. ![]()
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