ABSTRACT
Live classrooms are by nature frenetic with multimodal elements that can accomplish communication. In live classrooms, and in most other venues where humans converse, this terrifically tenacious aspect of time and, ironically, the limitless possibilities for its uses, predominates. The class as a whole votes on a cultures-in-contact point in history. Digital screen mediation means asking students to push the boundaries of convention in their thinking and their communicating as a path to content mastery and fluency. Indeed, current research has determined that people learn more and get more excited about learning when a digital avatar is controlled by a real person rather than just by an algorithm. Additional research shows that social contingency is a key factor in learning; when a back-and-forth communicative cycle is established between speakers, powerful learning occurs. The undisputed finding, in other words, is that authentic human interaction trumps technology interaction hands down.
