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Student Anxiety in Online Learning
Online and Blended Learning, Social/Emotional Learning | K-12
Technostress is a real—and rising—problem for K–12 students. Whether online learning is a large or small part of your instruction, learning and communicating in an online space can create unique anxieties for your students, and it’s essential for teachers and families to be prepared to walk them through these challenges.
In this course, you’ll analyze anxiety brought about by technology immersion as an overactive fight–flight–freeze survival response. Based on information systems research, you’ll explore the concept of “technostress” and its triggers, how to spot it in your students, and how it impacts learning. You’ll examine common mistakes in addressing anxiety, as well as how to work with families to help students through technostress and when to reach out for additional help. Finally, you’ll learn traditional best practices and digital solutions available to students to offset some of the anxiety they’re experiencing.
Using the techniques from this course, you’ll be able to support your students and their families as they navigate the digital elements of your classroom, however big or small.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Common causes of technostress and ways to alleviate it
- Insight into how anxiety physically manifests and impacts learning
- Sources for identifying anxiety’s danger signals in an online classroom
- Common mistakes in addressing anxiety
- Insight into how we can work with parents to alleviate their own anxiety and that of their children
- Resources and online tools to help students deal with technostress
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Assess how the triggers of students’ anxiety in a digital environment may differ from those in a traditional classroom environment, based on the fight–flight–freeze response.
- Reframe technostress as a form of anxiety, and develop ways that you can organize your online classroom to minimize the five technostress creators.
- Evaluate common responses to students’ expression of anxiety and their reactions to various digital platforms, and devise more appropriate responses that reflect an understanding of the underlying causes of anxiety.
- Appraise the impact of various stakeholders on student anxiety in a digital environment and generate strategies to support those stakeholders.
- Propose various digital interventions that can be used to support students with anxiety.
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