MCPS - A Modest Proposal

[Anonymous]

Just kidding about the title, but seriously, why don't we keep things simple?

Each teacher should set up an io listserv for each class, so kids can communicate with each other as a group. It should be by invitation to each kid in the class, unmoderated for posting, with teachers acting as the moderator (obviously) guiding expectations for posts and not letting things run off the rails. That way all students function as a group, like a class would, and they can communicate with each other, read what the other students are posting vis a vis assignments, etc. It would be up and running in like an hour, and everyone knows how to use a listserv already. Teachers can do the zoom meetings once a week and use google classroom and my MCPS, but this would allow a "classroom" that everyone can participate in immediately. They can also have a formal and informal list, for class work and for just communicating for fun.

Why does everything have to be cutting edge? Group emails or a listserve per class would be immediately effective to get things running.

My two cents.

[Anonymous]

What age group do you think this would work for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What age group do you think this would work for?

All of them. Youngest with parental help, but -- all of them. It's simple.

[Anonymous]

zoom meeting once a week is not useful. Most kids needs some kind of face to face/verbal instructions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:zoom meeting once a week is not useful. Most kids needs some kind of face to face/verbal instructions.

An unmoderated listserv can function like that (unmoderated because that way messages are posted iimediately, so the teacher doesn't have to sift through and approve them). I have robust conversations with my neighbors over our listserve. It's easy and an effective way to engage in conversation with a group remotely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What age group do you think this would work for?

All of them. Youngest with parental help, but -- all of them. It's simple.

Agree.

I have a kid in ES and kids need help with Zoom and the links anyway.

It would work fine for the young kids. No worse than what they are doing now.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

This is basically what Google classroom is.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think OP is a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What age group do you think this would work for?

All of them. Youngest with parental help, but -- all of them. It's simple.

I can't even follow what you are trying to suggest, so I am not sure it's that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is basically what Google classroom is.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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?

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[Anonymous]

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?

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GOOGLE CLASSROOM
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[Anonymous]

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.