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lank" rel="noreferrer">privacy choices</a>, many students keep their webcams or audio turned off during live video lessons. Indeed, some students are interacting with their teachers only by typing comments in a chat connected to the video. Many educators say they are now teaching live video lessons to <a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/mTOmqK4md1oBMGY5JfNcQA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhq6QZP0TfaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Xcml0ZXJKZW5MYXZvaWUvc3RhdHVzLzEzMzAzMDg2MDY1Mzc5NDkxOTA_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MTU4JmVtYz1lZGl0X290XzIwMjAxMjAzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTI0Njc2Jm5sPW9uLXRlY2gtd2l0aC1zaGlyYS1vdmlkZSZyZWdpX2lkPTc1MjA2NCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTQ1OTk0JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD05NTc2ZGQzYzAxOGZiYWZlZGMwYjRjYTU1MjlmNmRhZlcDbnl0QgoAQhkfyV8ziWcdUhF0b21AanRqb2huc29uLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~" class="m_1937498545388054069css-1sybz1k" style="color:#286ed0;border-bottom:1px solid #286ed0;text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">empty screens</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><p style="color:#333;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">“We often joke that we feel like we’re holding séances on a daily basis,” said Mircea Arsenie, an environmental science teacher at a Chicago public high school, “because we’re sitting there going, ‘Is anybody there?!!?’”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><p style="color:#333;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">Some students turn off their webcams for privacy — they don’t want people peering at their family members or homes. Other students turn off webcams to play games on their phones or text their friends.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><p style="color:#333;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">But there’s also a deeper issue, said Amanda Kaupp, a psychology teacher at a public high school in St. Louis. Students have developed passive technology habits from constantly consuming entertainment like YouTube and Netflix videos.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><p style="color:#333;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">Now with remote learning, schools are asking students to instantly develop active relationships with technology, she said, while many digital tools are poorly designed, and students are distracted and stressed out by the pandemic. Kaupp said that 70 percent of students in a recent live lesson admitted they were at that moment also using their phones.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><p style="color:#333;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">“I have long felt that the obsession with tech in the classroom was an obsession with a false god,” Kaupp said, “and even more so now.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:15px"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:15px;border-top:1px solid #dcdcdc"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><h2 class="m_1937498545388054069css-1p0l5xx" style="color:#000;font:400 27.5px/37.5px georgia,serif;margin:0 0 15px">Before we go …</h2></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin:0 auto;max-width:600px;width:100%"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 0 5px"><ul class="m_1937498545388054069css-vhya8o" style="color:#333;font:10px georgia,serif;text-align:left;padding-left:50px"><li class="m_1937498545388054069css-11scvta" style="line-height:27.5px;margin:0 0 10px 0"><span style="font-size:17px;line-height:25px;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:inherit">Is government surveillance through your phone legal? </span>The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog said <a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/Vz0I-2AfEXXsaV0SK2069w~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhq6QZP4QUAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndzai5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvaG9tZWxhbmQtc2VjdXJpdHktd2F0Y2hkb2ctdG8tcHJvYmUtZGVwYXJ0bWVudHMtdXNlLW9mLXBob25lLWxvY2F0aW9uLWRhdGEtMTE2MDY5MTA0MDI_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MTU4JmVtYz1lZGl0X290XzIwMjAxMjAzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTI0Njc2Jm5sPW9uLXRlY2gtd2l0aC1zaGlyYS1vdmlkZSZyZWdpX2lkPTc1MjA2NCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTQ1OTk0JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD05NTc2ZGQzYzAxOGZiYWZlZGMwYjRjYTU1MjlmNmRhZlcDbnl0QgoAQhkfyV8ziWcdUhF0b21AanRqb2huc29uLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~" class="m_1937498545388054069css-1sybz1k" style="color:#286ed0;border-bottom:1px solid #286ed0;text-decoration:none;font-f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