Next time you think you had a bad videoconference teaching experience, spare a thought for teacher trainees in this situation……

Tanya Moorehead’s task is to keep the algebra lesson in her middle-school class moving along briskly while keeping a close eye on young Marcus in the back row.

Restless Marcus is a natural leader capable of sending his classmates into a frenzy of laughter and spitballs if given half a chance.

“This is my class!” Marcus has been known to declare.

Marcus is a real pain. But he is not real.

The troublemaker is one of five computer-generated students inhabiting a high-tech virtual classroom under development at the University of Central Florida’s College of Education.

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