School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
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School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
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Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#2Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#3Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
I think this will confirm the exact opposite.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#4Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
How do the kids learn to socialize? Facebook or Facetime only? Don't say the parents have to organize this (see below for my current experience).
And for those of us with really young kids, this work from home may be great an all, but its really hard to work and tend to a very young one's education/attention.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#5Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
Or, conversely, we may observe the same problem that MOOCs have — it’s _very_ hard to motivate the average person to sit at a computer and learn some topic which is boring to them. Engagement is low.
Computers are great for reinforcing the rote part of learning. They are currently terrible for getting students motivated or over mental blocks. Those issues can be addressed by well designed programs, but US teachers were largely unprepared for this abrupt change in format.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#6In my home state of Michigan, online learning doesn't count toward teacher curriculum or retirement. The reasoning is that not all students can get access to online learning.
It effectively makes it so there is really no point in providing online learning resources/lessons, because it will all need to be repeated/made up when the students get back.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#7Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
My mother is a first grade teacher. While many things like math, reading, spelling, etc. can be delivered remotely (and I've been really impressed at the speed at which she has digitized it all) there is a lot of crucial tactile and social learning that occurs at that age that we have no real substitute for yet.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#8In my school district they still haven't figured out how to proceed. The problem is there are a lot of low income families that they know don't have internet access or a computer. They can give those kids a chromebook, but that isn't very helpful with no internet access. Legally (and morally) they can't move ahead with online school if a big chunk of the students are left out.
On the other hand, I was talking yesterday with a family member in another state where they have been doing online school almost since the first day (including PE, art, etc.!). I asked them what they are doing for students without a computer or internet access and apparently that state doesn't have the same equality laws so its basically a case of too bad, so sad for poor kids.
What I hope comes out of this is the realization that internet access is a utility on the same level as water or electricity.
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#9Will this help us to see the massive expenditures we make to move people to a classroom when they could easily see it via computer screen? Especially if we then ask students to just look at the chromebooks they are given by the school, seems wildly inefficient to continue the butt in seat model, especially with older students.
Do we really need to isolate society even further?
Re: School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning
#10In my school district they still haven't figured out how to proceed. The problem is there are a lot of low income families that they know don't have internet access or a computer. They can give those kids a chromebook, but that isn't very helpful with no internet access. Legally (and morally) they can't move ahead with online school if a big chunk of the students are left out. On the other hand, I was talking yesterd…
> too bad, so sad
Ah yes the classic legal maxim of "fuck you got mine".