Online Schooling in Microsoft Teams

After the unfortunate earth-destroying COVID-19 pandemic erupted on the lands of Asia, Europe, the North and South Americas, Africa, Oceanea, Antarctica and any other continent I’m missing, a new wave of schooling surged into action. They can't give us mercy, can they?

Online schooling includes tons of nice data-consuming apps like Zoom, MS Teams, Google meet, etc. out of which the most prominent in high-fee schools is Microsoft Teams.

The problem is that here, in MS Teams, the app requires an 8GB ram, and my laptop has a 4GB Ram, due to which frequent distortions in the functioning of the app are common. The ‘not responding’ signals come about in my screen as often as an ant roams around in a jungle.

However, there is a nice advantage here for the teachers. They can schedule billions of meetings in advance in the post-area, due to which the noble task of searching the particular day’s meeting takes approximately 20 seconds. I don’t know why they do that. I reckon teachers are slightly underconfident of their memory. After all, it is not they who do the memorizing stuff.

Lets come to the meetings. My particular school, offline, lasts for a whopping seven painful hours, with a considerable tax of free movement on students. As in online, they last for four hours of optional attention, which makes quite an improvement for sustainability of thought. The thing is, teachers, only in their worst, command us to switch on our videos. However, there are some teachers, in particular, who summon every individual logged into the meeting with roaring pitches.

However, students, even though connected by thin lines of electromagnetic waves, lack a sense of connection among themselves, as well as with the teacher. This is because, MS Teams divides all the accounts into two parties – the Organizers, who enjoy a considerable amount of status and power – and the otherwise measly Participants, whose status is just marked by their mere, lowly presence.

We feel the effects of imperialization.

- Krisha Shastri