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by scrumper 1778 days ago
I think this would have greatly helped my youngest, 6 at the time, stay more engaged during virtual learning in last year's lockdown. His teachers, who did a better job than we had any right to expect, quickly figured out some little tricks from screen-sharing 3rd party websites with fun dancing animations for "brain breaks" but nothing integrated with their regular lesson video call like this.

I hope you're able to get this adopted by individual teachers who can lead the way. School district IT isn't the most cutting edge (though, again, ours did a great job of adapting fast and standardizing on some very good resources like Zearn).

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Thank you for your kind words. Yes, actually that was one of the reasons we came up with the app, my co-founder has an 8 year old daughter and I remember she said "No kids want to be on Zoom". While Zoom is terrific for our remote team, we hope to bring something more for teaching and learning. Definitely when the time comes, we will approach schools districts and hopefully over the challenge of school district IT!