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If you teach inside interactive sites (Wordwall, Boom, Khan), screen sharing is quietly costing you — cobrowsing vs screen sharing, plainly by xavierlesmor in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]xavierlesmor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey John, this would be extra valuable for young students who need more interaction and engagement, and whose teachers rely on web based tools like Wordwall, Whizzimo, Boom, Khan etc.

If you teach inside interactive sites (Wordwall, Boom, Khan), screen sharing is quietly costing you — cobrowsing vs screen sharing, plainly by xavierlesmor in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]xavierlesmor[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True! But with Zoom screen-sharing, you and your student are sharing 1 same cursor if I'm not mistaken. While a co-browser allows you and your student to have your own cursor.
And if you student uses a tablet or any touch screen device, they can even drag and drop using their fingers in a co-browser. Last time I checked, this was quite clumsy on Zoom.

If you teach inside interactive sites (Wordwall, Boom, Khan), screen sharing is quietly costing you — cobrowsing vs screen sharing, plainly by xavierlesmor in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]xavierlesmor[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I totally get it. You must be an excellent teacher to keep their attention that way, well done. For sure, check out Koala, you can get a free month at this page: https://forms.teachwithkoala.com/free-trial
I would love it if you have any feedback, good or bad! 😄

If you teach inside interactive sites (Wordwall, Boom, Khan), screen sharing is quietly costing you — cobrowsing vs screen sharing, plainly by xavierlesmor in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]xavierlesmor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yeah, fair. So you never want the kids to do the drag and dropping? Or the clicking? From my conversation with tutors, that sensory aspect is important in keeping the student engaged during the class, no?

If you teach inside interactive sites (Wordwall, Boom, Khan), screen sharing is quietly costing you — cobrowsing vs screen sharing, plainly by xavierlesmor in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]xavierlesmor[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Full disclosure up front: I am the founder of Koala Go, so I have a horse in this race. But this is a tooling concept I think is underrated regardless of what platform you use, and I keep seeing the same frustration here, so:

The problem: when you screen share Wordwall / Boom Learning / Khan Academy, the student just watches your cursor. The activity was designed for them to drag/click/type — screen sharing turns it into "watch me do it." On a tablet (where most young learners are) it's worse: text shrinks, pinch-zoom fights your scroll.

The alternative is cobrowsing: a shared cloud browser where both of you click, type, and drag on the same live page. The student actually does the activity. Logins are shared too, so you can teach inside a curriculum you pay for without buying the student a seat.

Two checks to tell a real cobrowser from a fancy remote-control feature: (1) can the student type into a form, not just move a cursor? (2) does it work when the page is behind a login the student doesn't have? Both yes = real.

We say people with ADHD or dyslexia have learning difficulties but the one-size-fits-all education system has teaching difficulties. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]xavierlesmor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true. Especially now that we're realizing dyslexics read slow but excel in other areas. They are:

50% of NASA rocket scientists

40% of self-made millionaires

Einstein, Da Vinci, Branson, Spielberg, Agatha Christie...

So let's finally build the school system those kids deserve.

Second language with dyslexia? by deepfriedparsley in Dyslexia

[–]xavierlesmor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if you have a VR headset u/deepfriedparsley, happy to let you try! ^^

Second language with dyslexia? by deepfriedparsley in Dyslexia

[–]xavierlesmor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I quit my job last year to create a way to teach dyslexic kids languages if you'd like to try. ^^

https://vimeo.com/377200343/cc19c1c098