When Nettie Johnson fired up her first online class for her fifth graders in Topeka, Kansas last March, she knew they were flying by the seat of their pants. She had her laptop and Wi-Fi “but it was really difficult because if I was sharing my screen, I couldn’t really see the kids. So it was hard to interact or see if they were engaged.”
Her fellow teachers commiserated. “We talked about Zoom problems and the lack of being able to see the kids,” Johnson recalls. “But we didn’t really talk about how to fix this.”
