Abstract:

There are undoubted benefits of remote studies, such as availability, convenience, timesaving for transportation and other things. But active implementation of distant learning as the only possible means of learning in conditions of Covid, and the stress connected with it, has its impact.

Thus, Moscow school children, since 2020, while being under quarantine, use a distant format of learning. And this brings challenges not only for teachers, but also for school children’s parents.

Distant learning of children in primary school raises new questions in front of parents, related to organizing the conditions for children’s learning, such as: organization of access to the Internet, increase of their own technical competence for logging on to educational programs, necessity of changing their own work schedule or organization of persons who will be next to child of primary school at home during the process of remote learning for ensuring child’s safety and support.

Such learning has many advantages and probably disadvantages too, which are still to be identified by means of extensive investigations in Future. More and more spheres of life, business are realized with the aid of the Internet. The world like depends on the Internet. Obviously, one who wants to be in high demand in Future is in need of new skills and competences. That’s why, apart from Electronic, remote learning, in Russia, at the level of legislation there are discussions about creation of a digital environment for receiving the respective skills.

The author has analysed the existing legislation and petition for the attention of the Russian Federation government, chats, forums, made the online poll, and defined the basic psychological barriers, which come up among parents of children in Russian primary school when those get transferred to remote learning at the time of quarantine. Psychological barriers also include distrust, feeling of insecurity, frustration, and anger.

Author supposes that the psychological barriers of parents, when their children pass to the remote format of studies, can have a negative impact on the performance of their children.

Keywords:

Digital transformation, remote learning, psychological barriers, children’s parents.