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E-LEARNING FOR SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL SKILLS: PROS AND CONS

  For many years now, researchers in educational fields have been trying to understand the influence of technology in the classroom. After all, technology is not in the classroom today, technology is the classroom . Discussions with online educators and trainers yield that despite their best efforts in trying to make the session innovative and experiential, it was evident that they were struggling to keep their participants engaged. “ It’s so much harder [especially] with the younger members to engage online ,” is a common statement. E-learning is especially challenging when the subject we are trying to teach is Social and Emotional Learning . After all, the reason we focus so hard to build social and emotional skills is often because of the negative effects of technology . How E-Learning Might be Helping All challenges considered; it just would not be true to assume that because online education has underperformed in the past, it necessarily means that it will do so again in the fu