I feel like both of these are extremely location dependent.
From my friends across North America I know that network connectivity can be very very poor if you aren’t living close to a big city.
And as far your example with school goes, I’ve seen the polar opposite happen where all kids got a mandatory Teams or Google account (depending on school) fairly early into the lockdowns.
Maybe subcontinents are still too big to generalize about from one person’s experience. :-)
I believe both all of the video conferencing services (Zoom, Teams, Google, …) are currently incompatible with German law, as far as allowing kids to use them. I don’t remember the exact details, but I recall that it was actual some EU wide regulation that triggered this issue, but national laws don’t always fully implement all EU laws. So, some countries might have been more relaxed. Also, some schools in Germany were initially more pragmatic and allowed the use of video conferencing.
But most of these programs got shut down by the authorities after making national news.
I didn’t even expect that much. Video conferencing would have been awesome. But I was perfectly prepared to settle for email. Turns out, even that wasn’t allowed in our school district
I feel like both of these are extremely location dependent. From my friends across North America I know that network connectivity can be very very poor if you aren’t living close to a big city.
And as far your example with school goes, I’ve seen the polar opposite happen where all kids got a mandatory Teams or Google account (depending on school) fairly early into the lockdowns.
Maybe subcontinents are still too big to generalize about from one person’s experience. :-)
I believe both all of the video conferencing services (Zoom, Teams, Google, …) are currently incompatible with German law, as far as allowing kids to use them. I don’t remember the exact details, but I recall that it was actual some EU wide regulation that triggered this issue, but national laws don’t always fully implement all EU laws. So, some countries might have been more relaxed. Also, some schools in Germany were initially more pragmatic and allowed the use of video conferencing.
But most of these programs got shut down by the authorities after making national news.
I didn’t even expect that much. Video conferencing would have been awesome. But I was perfectly prepared to settle for email. Turns out, even that wasn’t allowed in our school district