How to help your child choose Zoom class over Roblox games
- The Deledao Team
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 10
This article was written during the COVID -19 pandemic
Whether it’s a hybrid model or full-on distance learning, your children are spending a lot more time learning at home. Your mornings as a parent probably look something like this.
Day in the Life of a Parent Who Manages Remote Learning
7:12 am – Wake up the kiddos. Get them to brush their teeth.
7:15 am – Pour pancake batter into a hot pan. Answer emails from work. Flip pancakes. The dog knocks over the water bowl. Clean up the mess with your favorite brand of paper towels. Run out of paper towels. Yell at dog. Add ‘paper towels’ to shopping list on fridge. Flip pancakes. No wait, flip burnt pancakes…oops.
7:28 am – Pour cereal and milk into bowls for kiddos. Pour coffee for your own sanity.
7:50 am – Make kiddos sit in front of their iPads and laptops for the start of Zoom class.
8:02 am – Check in on kids
First Kid - Playing Roblox games and chatting with strangers online
Second Kid - Watching a YouTube video of a sheep jumping on a trampoline
You: smh.
(*your kiddos will tell you that means ‘shaking my head’)
And you look at the calendar and realize it’s only October.
"How am I gonna manage this?"
The Problem for Most Parents
With you busy working and no teachers or friends to keep them engaged in class, distractions like YouTube, Netflix, and online games become their new best friends.
You hope your children take their education seriously, even if it doesn’t feel like a normal school year right now. But the truth is, they can’t help themselves.
It's not the school's fault. They have to do a lot with very little, and nobody has been through something like this before.
But you don’t want them to fall behind this school year. It already feels like the spring semester earlier this year was lost time.
You know you have to do something.
You check in on them more often, but you have your own Zoom meetings and 823 unread emails in your work inbox.
At the core of it, you need a solution that can tackle these problems:
The 3 most common issues during remote learning
Kids are not engaged in class.
Your child has one tab open on Zoom/Google Meet classroom, but really they're playing Roblox games on another tab.
Kids struggle with time management.
Your child meant to do research for their American History report but end up spending 3 hours watching funny YouTube videos
Kids aren't getting enough sleep.
They just started Episode 1 of Stranger Things on Netflix at 9:49PM, and there's no WAY they can stop themselves by 10PM bedtime!
Maybe you tried:
Blocking distracting game sites through your internet service provider.
Using built-in screen time management features on your devices.
Buying parental control apps.
But nothing is working.
What if there were an easier way to keep them focused and on track? A more effective way to boost your children's remote learning productivity?
Have you considered Deledao ActiveInstruct?
3 ways Deledao ActiveInstruct Addresses the Top Issues in Remote Learning
As an EdTech company, Deledao has already been helping schools across the U.S. with keeping students focused on school-owned devices. Now we’re providing parental control for personal devices.
Solving Problem 1: Making sure they're engaged during class time
Solving Problem 2: Set different policies for Class Time/Study time and Fun Time.
Solving Problem 3: Set a downtime policy to block all internet browsing at bedtime
What to Look for in a Remote Learning Software
When choosing a solution, make sure the software has the following features:
Restricts internet access to educational sites only during class/study time
Rewards kids with access to Roblox games and YouTube after schoolwork is done
Remotely monitor a child's internet access right from your phone
Under your guidance, your children will not only survive distance learning, but thrive in any digital environment.
Or choose Deledao ActiveInstruct: A nationally recognized solution
