MCPS - A Modest Proposal

[Anonymous]

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Then why is MCPS struggling to get this off the ground? It literally takes an hour to form an io group and get it going. It's much easier. That doesn't meant google classroom can't be used as well, but the listserve could be the "classroom" part where people communicate with each other, ask questions, clarify, etc.

Google Classroom isn't causing the problems, and yet another platform isn't going to solve them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Then why is MCPS struggling to get this off the ground? It literally takes an hour to form an io group and get it going. It's much easier. That doesn't meant google classroom can't be used as well, but the listserve could be the "classroom" part where people communicate with each other, ask questions, clarify, etc.

Google Classroom isn't causing the problems, and yet another platform isn't going to solve them.

Well I disagree. Everyone knows how to do emails and group emails and listserves. Something is clearly wrong with the way MCPS is trying to roll this out. Why roll something out when we could just use existing platforms everyone knows how to use?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This would not work. It would be chaos. Think about email
Before threads. Kids as young as 8 know google classroom. It already has these capabilities with subgroups/assignments.

Plus kids are already doing this on their own.

Exactly. And teachers should tap into this. What good is it to do it on their own when we're talking about how to do distance LEARNING?

I think you really just have to trust teachers to know their kids and figure out what's going to be most effective and useful for everyone. The first step is checking in to make sure they're out there and receiving communication. No learning can happen if 1/4 of your kids are AWOL.

This is triage. We need to make sure they are okay. Then we can try to do some learning.

You sound like an idiot. We are not "triaging". Do you even know what the word means? What needs other than educational are teachers going to address with emails and zoom meetings.

She put it much better than I could:

https://twitter.com/msdvwmhs/status/1245783064715956224?s=21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Then why is MCPS struggling to get this off the ground? It literally takes an hour to form an io group and get it going. It's much easier. That doesn't meant google classroom can't be used as well, but the listserve could be the "classroom" part where people communicate with each other, ask questions, clarify, etc.

Google Classroom isn't causing the problems, and yet another platform isn't going to solve them.

Well I disagree. Everyone knows how to do emails and group emails and listserves. Something is clearly wrong with the way MCPS is trying to roll this out. Why roll something out when we could just use existing platforms everyone knows how to use?

Everyone who is a parent knows how to do emails and group emails and listservs (more or less).

The kids, on the other hand, do group texts and Instagram etc - and Google Classroom.

You don't know how to use Google Classroom because you haven't been using it, but the kids and the teachers have been using it. It's an existing platform that they know how to use.