This is an example of what I would call good online learning - indeed, just good learning in general. The setting is parent-teacher conferences for fifth-graders. The only people not there are the students! So this teacher had the student manage their own conference, presenting their work and interacting with both parent and teacher (and sharing their portfolio with caregivers who cannot attend). I would expand this as much as I could, having students manage their own learning activities as much as possible. Sure, they would mess it up - at first. But let them see examples of how it's done, given them responsibility for parts of conferences (like, say, conference reporting, or maybe recording the video archives), let them try it a few times, and they'll pick it up.
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