Alright, Rant time: you cannot find yourself so important that you ask your students to not be relaxed in their own home. Your students, regardless of their age, have their room, their home, as their own space. You cannot ask them to do something they don’t want to do.
Kids, teenagers, and college students are INVITING you to their personal space, and paying to have your presence invade their home/room virtually. Zoom causes anxiety, and fatigue. Don’t add onto them.
Some of your students can’t afford their own laptops. Some of your students can’t afford decent internet. Some of your students can’t eat any other time of day, except during your class. And you have the AUDACITY to tell them not to eat during your class. Get better internet SMH
If you have students that are roommates, and they have to share a computer, you cannot ask them to not socialise. They already can’t hang out with their friends that they used to be able to. This may be the only genuine human interaction that they have all day.
Long story short: stop making your lesson seem more important than your students private space, or home life. It’s unprofessional, and makes you look like their lives are less important than your 1 credit hour class.
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