{"id":6621,"date":"2021-04-09T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:22:56","slug":"remote-learning-how-is-it-affecting-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2021\/04\/09\/remote-learning-how-is-it-affecting-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Learning: How Is It Affecting Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No one thought at this time last year that we would be remote learning due to a pandemic. In recent months, children have been at home more than at school. The \u201cnew normal\u201d is affecting students as well as parents. How is it affecting children?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adam Davis is a parent of two girls attending remote learning while Adam is working from home. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s tiring for both the kids and the parents. They\u2019re given work to get it done, not to learn.\u201d The teachers in every district are doing everything they can to make remote learning as normal as possible. Normal is not what this pandemic has amounted to. For many, the changes made focus on the logistics of being at home, not on the needs of the children while they are at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aleshanee Brannigan, a mother of four, is seeing the outcome on her daughter, \u201cMy child tends to feel left out and not \u2018heard.\u2019 Literally not heard, because she is usually muted.\u201d\u00a0 While COVID-19 is very real, so is the mental health pandemic sweeping through our children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Children in the Monmouth Memorial School had recess up to three times a day while attending in-person classes. Their recesses now consist of time at home with their family, while being isolated from their friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Educators are doing their best to encourage engagement. It is not an easy task. Katie LeFreniere is a teacher in southern Maine. She took some time to reflect on how remote learning has affected her students\u2019 work. \u201cAs an educator, my experiences with my fully remote students show that fully remote students are either flourishing or failing with no in between. I have students that I communicate with daily and who turn everything in on time. However, I also have students who haven\u2019t completed any work and who don\u2019t respond to my repeated attempts at communication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Moving through the last few months has been hard, and it does not appear to be getting any easier. While the effects on each of our children is different, there needs to be a stronger community focus on supporting our teachers and our students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No one thought at this time last year that we would be remote learning due to a pandemic. In recent months, children have been at home more than at school. The \u201cnew normal\u201d is affecting students as well as parents. How is it affecting children?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adam Davis is a parent of two girls attending remote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}