Every few weeks students in St. Lucie County schools undergo “unit assessments” designed to monitor their progress. And for the first nine weeks of this school year they told an interesting troubling story.
“We had a pretty substantial gap in performance between students who started virtually this year” and those attending classes in brick-and-mortar classrooms, said Jonathan Prince, the district s assistant superintendent.
“And we also saw a big uptick in failure those first nine weeks among virtual students, he said.
The district’s answer was to reach out to parents to say that so long as they were comfortable with it their student would be better off returning to school. Many did; 70% of kids now attend classes in person, up from just under 50% at the beginning of the year.
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Researchers at Stanford University and the Peruvian non-profit Planeta Océano have described the movement patterns and habitat use of giant oceanic manta rays off northern Peru. Their findings are published in
Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
An oceanic manta ray swims in the surface waters of northern Peru. Credit: Joost van Uffelen.
The study used satellite telemetry to track the movements of three oceanic mantas from the Tumbes region of northwestern Peru. Electronic tags attached to the mantas recorded their location and diving behavior over a period of several months. These data were transmitted to Earth-orbiting satellites then relayed to the researchers, who were able to reconstruct and analyze the rays’ movements.
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That bleary-eyed, foggy-brained feeling of “Zoom fatigue” is a widely accepted pandemic phenomenon but how can you prevent it? And what exactly causes it?
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Researchers at Stanford University just released the first peer-reviewed, psychological study of Zoom fatigue, and its results are surprising. Researchers found four quite different causes, as well as helpful solutions for each:
1. Close-up eye contact is exhausting
In a typical Zoom discussion, the amount of intensive eye contact far exceeds what you would experience in real-life interactions. Think about it: When you take a walk-and-talk with a friend, you might have mere moments of eye contact; in a conference room, listeners look at their screens and their notes or gaze out the window. At the same time, Zoom faces are typically larger and closer than you’d experience in real-life work discussions, which fool your mind into perceiving an intensely intimate conv