DL is going to be a total sh#tshow
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Honestly, I’m not too worried about the impact - because we are ALL impacted by it. Screen time use sucks for the kids, and they may all need glasses by 30, but hell Elon Musk wants to start a colony on Mars next election and just got the federal permission to set up satellites across the us this week for global internet from space. Things are changing. Our world is changing. New normals are emerging. I used to love when the teacher rolled a tv in for class and we didn’t have to work out of the textbook. Well, we don’t have polio to frighten us with kids, but our kids will remember covid as something that shut so much down and took normalcy away for a significant period.
With my child, It is easier to give 3 hours of dedicated work to one child 1:1 than 8 hours dispersed across an entire classroom. I don’t mind DL at all. More concerned about emotional and social development, and also the kids that aren’t able to participate in arts, athletics, or team building activities. I recognize that I have one child, not two or four, so that is obviously shaping my expeirmx too. Plus some kids don’t mind long periods and stretches in the same place, so the disposition comes into play too. |
Anonymous
What does this mean? Are you hiring a tutor for 3 hours of one to one virtual instruction? I agree 1:1 virtual instruction would be far better than large class instruction virtually but that's not what is on offer by our school district. |
Anonymous
I apologize for being unclear. Personally, I have not needed to hire a tutor so far, but may in the fall as my schedule changes. My point was that the focus should be on making sure children learn the subject, instead of hours online to check the box for instruction guidelines. If covid means all DL - schedule blocks for the entire group to meet, say for 1-3hrs depending on age. Assign a 1:1 Peer assignment. And let the teacher schedule 1:1 with every student in the class on alternating weeks. Week 1: Class live and online teams meet M - Subject 1, 0900-1200 (depending on age maybe less). // Griup work with Classmate 1 in PM T - Subext 2 ... W - Subject 3... T - Subject 4... F - Subject 5 ... Week 2: 1:1 Reviews with student and teacher M 0900-1000. Student 1 1000-1100. Student 2 ... You get the picture. I think the nature of this pandemic allows for us to modernize and adapt to what distance leaning can look like. Teach kids how to operate online socially too, post videos, every student has a day where they share something and all of the class have to comment with an example of how it’s related to the lesson plan for credit, etc Everyone can’t afford a tutor but there is a way to try to make lemonade out of these lemons |
Anonymous
| Do you all think daycare’s will be having school-age kids just sitting in front of their chrome books? Or will working parents have to have the kids watch the recordings in the evenings? |
Anonymous
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But a teacher can have 25 kids in elementary school!
Your idea is the teacher teaches math for three hours to a whole group on Monday Of the first week, language arts to the whole group on Tuesday of the first week at Cetera. And then the second week the teacher gives one to one tutorial for an hour to each student. So the second week she’s busy doing one to ones all week six per day times four days gets you to 24 hours for 25 students. So that second week what are all the students doing well they’re not getting their one hour of instruction that week? |
Anonymous
This is where we use our thinking caps guys! Maybe you get out and try to show a video of nature. Maybe you collaborate with study groups and teams or work groups to meet I mean, I’m not developing a lesson plan and full structure, but this can be done. Yes 1 week of blocks and 1 week of teaching... like normal. For 6 hours. On week 2, you login to watch the videos. You complete the textbook McGraw hill problems and take practice e quizzes. You video tape a discussion with a classmate you’re assigned to. Activities vary by age. Teachers get flexibility in how they engage with students requiring different energy/needs. You build social skills by partnering personalities otherwise. Maybe everyone logs in every morning for a 30 minute roll all, and rhey log in at the end of the school day to go around the room and ea h person explain what they did for the day and what they will work on. Have a discussion board where kids are required to post. Schedule blocks with other teachers/subjects so on Week 2 maybe a different teacher is giving 3 hour blocks. I don’t know - but it’s better than getting 50 PDFs emailed to me two nights before my daughter needs to do the work, allows teachers to really connect with their students, and again streamlines rhe administrative parts so people that are not tech savvy can follow some framework or example. |
Anonymous
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Oh, and the biggest thing that I try to also consider? An element of this that engages the STUDENT. Make
Learning fun, and teach them how to interact socially online! Address bullying, cancel culture, make students work independently together and show proof or display to Others and the class for comment. There are DL models that work. For public, especially young ones school is part academic but also part social. This looks at teaching that makes kids interact - and not just giving instruction all day. At lest, not on week 1. And redirecting the focus to the kids socially connecting, as a part of the curriculum. They will need to learn to engage and adapt. By the time they graduate they will probably FaceTime with 3D holographic projections Star Wars style. 
Also the 3 hour blocks in the PM for the teacher Mom-Fri allow for content development, grading, etc. |
Anonymous
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Sorry hit send to soon....
... so it also considers the needs of the teachers balancing this new approach that no one was trained or prepared for, in so many different types of counties and districts with different levels. Teachers labor extensively and this can allow them to work smarter; don’t ramp up your production at the expense of efficiency. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. Plenty of kids may not love the academic aspects of school, but they enjoy the social interaction and specials and recess, etc. And now, all they’re getting is poorly delivered content. My kids are very upset not to be going back to school. We’ll make the best of it, but FFS, stop with the arguments that kids can’t adapt to modified in-person school or that they don’t like it that much anyway. That ignores so much. |
Anonymous
+1000 What outrages me beyond belief: Does anyone remember way back in the dinosaur age of 2018/ 2019 when all we heard about was how much more money was needed for schools, because there was NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERY CHILD'S EDUCATION? And now we're supposed to accept that -- oh well -- "things have changed?" And THIS is supposed to be adequate? |
Anonymous
I knew that was fake news when Betsy DeVos was appointed as the Secretary of Education. Honestly, it’s a disaster either way. Because - we are in the middle of a disaster, further promulgated by other disasters. And even though it may suck, you still have to try. You have to try to do what you can with what you have. |
Anonymous
I really don't think whether my child is participating in DL or not affects your family. |
Anonymous
| Maybe students can go into class for a full day broken into smaller socially distanced groups. Group 1, Day 1. Group 2, Day 2. Each group is 5 kids. But again — puts a burden on teachers with children at home. Also takes some flexibility out of the lesson plan and same content is taught 5 days a week by teacher to 5 different groups. Whatever it is, there should be hybrid alternatives for in person models vs online, and a way to make sure students are engaged either way. I actually think some students would thrive if this were executed the right way. Distance Learning is NOT new. |
Anonymous
even 3 hours is too much. |
Anonymous
Lessons should be recorded and asynchronous. Then the teacher spends all day teaching small groups. |