Insidious methods of lobbying distance education

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Back in mid-April, an NGO at a state pleasure called the National Education Resources Foundation, headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Education Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, as well as the head of the ONF project Equal Opportunities for Children, Lyubov Dukhanina, published the results of a survey of almost 2,500 parents and 2,700 schoolchildren across the country, which sets the task of finding out the attitude of students, their dads and mothers to distance learning.

Despite the quite obvious results, which, with a number of reservations, can be called objective, a month later in many large semi-official Internet media, including Rossiyskaya Gazeta, materials appeared on the basis of this poll, very loyal and even actively promoting the distance - with direct quotes from Mrs. Dukhanina. It is quite obvious that this was the main task of the bureaucrat's fund to catch up with the globalists, who previously actively promoted psychological support for each child and family, and also consistently promotes the digitization of education.

First, let's look at the most important numbers of the survey, which speak for themselves: the majority of parents are sure that it is impossible to replace school with any distance learning (70%), and 60% of adolescents would not want to study remotely all the time. Almost 50% of schoolchildren said that they became more tired after switching to "electronic". Distance learning is more difficult for every second person than full-time. For 65% of students, memorizing and understanding new material turned out to be much easier during regular lessons in the classroom, and not at a distance.

The transition to remote mode does not help and it is better to analyze information and formulate your own position, including on current events. Only 40% of the respondents can easily cope with this - 13% less than two months ago (that is, until April 2020, when none of them dealt with distance). At the same time, against the background of prolonged isolation, slightly more than half of adolescents (57%) began to feel a lack of communication with other students, 45% - a lack of communication with teachers.

Also, in a survey by the National Education Resources Foundation, it is noted that all online platforms that students use during distance learning are intermittent. Failures of online learning platforms were reported by 88% of children who used them:

“Some tasks were unavailable by the link, in the early days the site often gave error 502. When you check the answers, your solution is first displayed as incorrect, but when you hover the cursor it becomes correct”, “It's hard to send tasks, everything hangs”, “Bugs, lags, inconvenience, it is not clear what and where is, a strange system of points and ratings "," After the European part of the country wakes up, nothing works."

Parents, in turn, point to a lack of communication with teachers (45%): in their opinion, “schools were not just not ready, but not particularly willing to change something. It's easier to write a bunch of self-study assignments for children than to prepare at least a 20-minute online lesson! (Tomsk region); “Distance learning should not be about sending out paragraphs to read and assignments to complete. Teachers must conduct online lessons. In our village, this is still very difficult, which is why some of the children simply do not learn the material, but rewrite and send ready-made answers to the teacher”(Krasnoyarsk Territory).

It is absolutely expected - and this was repeatedly told by parents in groups of patriotic and conservative public organizations - that in such conditions a significant part of adults in schoolchildren's families are forced to take on the functions of a home teacher. Parents note that they help to complete (55%) and check (51%) schoolchildren's homework, explain certain topics of the program (49%), although classes seem to be still conducted by teachers in accordance with school curricula - that is, be responsible for quality education at a distance, according to all logic, the school is obliged. In every fifth family, adults select additional literature for children to read, organize developmental classes and try to diversify the educational process with Internet resources, another 17% of adults study beyond the school curriculum.

The survey goes on to say that it was the children's unwillingness to organize themselves that allegedly “largely caused the increase in the burden on the parents”: 48% of the mothers and fathers surveyed noted that the child's transition to online education required them to devote much more time and effort to teaching him. For many, the issue of motivating children to study at home is an acute issue: 62% of respondents noted its decline, while only 9% noted an increase.

And here is how curiously Dukhanina herself comments on this survey data:

“The transition to distance learning is easiest for those children who know how to independently organize their day so that they can do everything. 22% of adolescents said that they easily manage to plan their studies, rest, household chores, entertainment, another 38% believe that they are more likely to succeed. Difficulties are experienced by 26% of children, 12% admitted that they cannot do this at all."

Thus, the nkoshnitsa deputy directly states that the so-called online “education” is directly related to the self-education, self-organization of children and the need for parents to constantly monitor the education of their children! Teachers fade into the background, the school, as an organization, washes its hands: they showed the student several online "lectures", gave the assignment - and then it was like this: what he understood himself, then he understood, if the parents were not yet working and took the time to explain something. And if not, excuse me, the state, with its duty to fully ensure the process of transferring knowledge to the new generation, washes its hands and “leaves the market” of educational services. This is the main message of this whole e-school.

At the same time, it is striking that none of the survey organizers drew negative conclusions regarding the distance from the above information. On the contrary, Mrs. Dukhanina, and after her Rossiyskaya Gazeta and other media began to take on the flag other, less significant, but beneficial data from the survey. For example, 21% of schoolchildren saw new opportunities for themselves: they are interested in trying to learn in a new format. It is clear that there are no experienced methodologists and teachers among children - there are always many children who love experiments and changes, including in education. But Dukhanina uses this moment to declare on a blue eye:

“At the same time, both experts and some parents believe that when the first shock passes, the interest in distance learning opportunities will increase among a number of families. The Federation Council has already called to formalize the legal status of distance education, since schools and universities have begun to organically combine both traditional and distance, digital learning technologies,”reads a note on the results of the poll on the website of the deputy's fund.

Everything Dukhanina said directly correlates with the explanations of Olga Chetverikova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, at an online rally in May against the digitization of Russia. Here's a direct quote:

“I emphasize: we are not talking about the fact that Matvienko announced this form of education as the main one, which excited the parents the most. They do not need to make the distance the main one, at the first stage it will be combined with the traditional form, but they need to legitimize it at any cost. They need to introduce the concept of “distance learning” into the Federal Law “On Education”. Thus, they will be able to legalize all digital personal training platforms that Sberbank is developing today as a norm. They will temporarily coexist with traditional education, in order to then push it out to the margins and finally deprive it of the right to exist - everything is strictly in accordance with the foresight project, where the terms for demolition and liquidation of traditional systems are set for 2022-2030."

So the Dukhanina Foundation does an excellent job with this task: at the first stage, to legalize distance learning on a par with traditional full-time education, to inflate a soap bubble from it supposedly of the same need and importance as classical classes with teachers in the classroom. Moreover, see what collection of pupils' comments this foundation makes:

“22% of children find it easier to study, another 22% believe that in terms of complexity, little has changed:

“I really like home, I would always study at home, but still I am not yet used to this form of education. It seems to me that they began to ask more lessons than before. I lack communication a little, but overall I feel very good "(13 years old, Ivanovskaya oblast)," It is psychologically easier for me to study remotely, the teachers do not put pressure on me, and I do not see them, but I miss the class "(16 years old, Kurskaya region)".

Look, it turns out that it's already great to study at home - the teachers don't press, and you can't see them, maybe they are not needed at all? But what psychological comfort … of course, there is no communication with peers, friends, but you can live without it, isn't it? And if you think that according to the results of the poll, Dukhanina stopped at what has already been said, then you are mistaken.

“It is necessary to legalize not only distance general education, but also additional education. This will simplify the requirements for the design of distance programs for circles and sections. Today, the bulk of the requirements are related precisely to the premises for conducting classes, and it is extremely difficult to meet them. Even before the quarantine, for many children, the Internet was the only opportunity to learn the basics of guitar playing, sketching, yoga, and Japanese. The introduction of this form of education into the normative field will allow many teachers to obtain a license for the first time, since the training program will be evaluated first of all,”- this is how the lobbyist of the electronic school decided to play big.

Moreover, many teachers who previously had no teaching experience from the word "absolutely", according to Dukhanin, will immediately be able to become licensed distance specialists. What such teachers will be able to teach children - let's leave on the conscience of the deputy, who seems to be called upon to be responsible for the quality of our education in the State Duma. Well, yoga and other physical education at a distance is already just an outright mockery of children and parents. However, the main character of our material does not stop there either.

Another direct quote from the results of the survey on the foundation's website:

“According to Dukhanina, the future of the digital school is associated with the emergence of a new type of specialists in it, including in the field of online education - methodologists and tutors of e-learning, coordinators of online platforms, designers of individual educational trajectories:

“These are professions of the near future, which are already developing in the segments of higher, additional professional, corporate online education. For a digital school, a fundamentally different pedagogical structure is needed, which has not yet been created on the required scale. The task of these specialists will be to transform the digital school from the format of a repository of video lessons, tests and digitized textbooks into a new quality that will revolutionize and power up existing processes.

One of the elements of such a school, Dukhanina sees educational modules at the intersection of sciences, providing for different depths of presentation, different study times and requirements for mastering the previous content. A number of modules can be mastered based on the previous ones, while others are more or less autonomous. Modules will allow you to integrate different topics and even different subject areas. In the future, the entire curriculum can be organized in accordance with the thematic modules."

After the words about coordinators of online platforms instead of teachers and individual educational trajectories, as well as about a "fundamentally different pedagogical structure", those who are in the subject should not have their last doubts. Ms. Dukhanina's brains, alas, have been completely washed out by transhumanist foresight officers like Messrs. Luksha and Peskov, and she simply echoes their Education-2030 project brought to us from "respected partners".

And from this moment it is necessary to clearly understand that Dukhanina and the funds and programs associated with her are directly involved in the destruction of the traditional school and all traditional forms of education in our country and its replacement with a global caste system for obtaining basic skills and competencies by biological objects, replacing fundamental subjects and disciplines "modules" for narrow-minded comrades that do not require any depth of study and presentation. All traditional subjects, as well as grades and exams with teachers, will be completely eliminated from the educational process according to the foresight manuals, and Mrs. Dukhanina brings their plans, written off from Western programs of "sustainable development" and presented in the bowels of offices such as HSE, MSHU "Skolkovo," in every possible way.”And ASI several years ago.

At the end of this, in all respects, an indicative survey, the Dukhanina Foundation gives the heading "direct speech" - like giving the floor to students from different regions of Russia, but in fact gives only three opinions, each of which in one form or another supports the introduction of remote electronic education, and in In some quotes, it is directly equated to extramural / self-study outside the school and is supposedly called by the students an unconditional plus! Q. E. D.

At the end of the article, we want to remind all concerned parents that on April 10, 2020, a Rosobrnadz hotline (88003330831) on distance learning was launched, and a hotline of the Ministry of Education (88002009185) on the same topic was also opened. All concerned citizens, parents, students, the pedagogical and academic community can call these phones and express their attitude against any form of distance learning (for obvious reasons, we are never going to agitate anyone for a distance). If desired, the authorities will take from you under the record information about your city, school, class and specific arguments against the e-school. In addition to the links and materials already cited above, everyone can use the latest recommendations on the hygiene of students from the research institutes under the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education as arguments, as well as a statement against distance education posted on the official website of the Public Commissioner for Family Protection.

We draw the attention of all concerned citizens that in the case of a small number of calls with arguments against the distant, from September 2020-2021 academic year, remote learning will probably be legalized by lobbyists like Dukhanina on an ongoing basis, and then there will be no turning back for our country. The duty of every Russian patriot today is to protect our traditional school, our teachers, our fundamental pedagogical base and education without digitizing and assimilating a person to a machine. Only together can we stop these optimizer-dehumanizers.