What in the world is happening at Carson?
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Anonymous
np. We have teachers at Longfellow that use those materials. |
Anonymous
Carson is unique in that sense - my older child went there and I was impressed with their paper use. However, my other child goes to Franklin and both English and History are majority digital. Science has done digital, some paper. |
Anonymous
A bunch were late, that is all I know and I only know that from the multiple emails that we got. |
Anonymous
I look at my kids binder from time to time. Outside at marvelling how every subject is in the wrong folder, I see a lot of paper in there. I know his math packets fro Geometry are paper and the Algebra packets last year where paper. I am sure they do some work on the computer but it seems like they do a lot on paper. |
Anonymous
My son is a freshman at Marshall so our experience is more recent. That said my son was in aap, so his experience may have been different. |
Anonymous
This is why I'm so pissed that the RIO parents want to send our children to Franklin. We love Carson. |
Anonymous
Nope, your child's AAP experience was no different from any other child's experience. The AAP kids are some of the worst offenders at Carson, I imagine it is the same at every other middle school. "Advanced" academics has absolutely nothing to do with a child's maturity or lack thereof. |
Anonymous
Your Franklin student must have a different English, history, and science teacher than mine because almost everything in those three classes, for my child, is on paper. In English, they do Lexia and No More Red Ink on the computer, but their notes, assessments, stories, articles, and other work is on paper. History and science are almost 100% paper. |
Anonymous
Franklin is also great. I've sent kids to both schools. Both are very good. There are excellent teachers at both schools, just as there are duds at both schools. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Well, you should let them know that the material that was created during Covid has been removed/updated countless times and they should go and pull down the new material. |
Anonymous
You’re thinking about the canned lessons created by gatehouse for virtual learning. That’s not what I meant. I mean just using the computer in general for turning in work (submitting on schoology), finishing slides, creating something on canvas, creating a slideshow. Teacher rely too much on the computer now and that obviously was worse in the years after Covid. We even have elementary schools administering all math tests on the computer which is preposterous. |
Anonymous
Those computer tests are to make sure all kids are taking the same exams across the County. |
Anonymous
You have a gross misunderstanding of "lessons created during Covid" if you think digital literacy and digital proficiency lessons are "lessons created during Covid." ---> Submitting on Schoology= learning how to submit files digitally, which is a real-life skill. ---> Creating something on Canva= learning media literacy, use of text features for purpose or accessibility, and functional skills on a computer, all of which are real-life skills. ---> Creating a slideshow= learning presentation skills, evaluating main idea, adapting to audience and purpose, use of text features, and supporting a claim, all of which are real-life skills. The best teachers are teaching using both paper and the computer, for both are important to learn to use effectively. |
Anonymous
Those are pretty minor skills though and are fine for summarizing rather than being detail oriented. I'd rather they read full books rather than passages. Write out equations on paper. Produce detailed information with original observations rather than sumarization. Daily math, PE and foreign language class instead of block scheduling for those types of classes. |