Hello @jhenry @edavis. I’m currently in a CS Discoveries training and we’re thinking ahead to the fall and teaching the course remotely. My school went remote mid March in the middle of a team group project. Students had been working online in their Edmodo groups with a good amount of success. But once we went remote, the malaise (good description) set in. There’s so much value to the paired programming. I’m concerned that students will drop off. We were introduced to MIT Hangout. I haven’t explored too much yet but was told that we could monitor the break out groups as a whole and pop in to rooms. I’m thinking that just like optional office hours, I can offer optional pair programming this way. I think if we can get even 1/4 of our kids to try that out, they might talk it up and get more classmates to join. I really appreciate this post and answer. The pair programming is a big question mark for me.
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