Teachers

[Anonymous]

I'm in a tech program and need to build a final project and I wanted to see if there is a need for anything tech related for teachers either pre-Covid and certainly now with distance learning? Any problems that you forsee or had and what would be useful to be created for you, students, classroom or school wide in technology form? I'd love to hear your thoughts off the top of your heads. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I don't know if this is along the lines of what you need but the biggest concern our math teachers have is how students will be able to "write" on their screens to solve math problems. They feel (and I agree) that math is best done by writing, not typing, and that students who don't have paper/pencils/pens are at a disadvantage. Additionally it is hard to write on the screen of a Chromebook with your finger. I tried and it was extremely frustrating for me, a 50+ but tech savvy person, so I can only imagine how hard it must be for growing kids, tweens and teens, who might not have the same level of hand-eye coordination. It gets even more complicated with the special math symbols.

[Anonymous]

Okay Love this! I want our systems to not look like DOS from 1995 when I started college. The crappy drop down menus, inability to bring information from one program to another needs to stop. Synergy which is for attendance and grading is horrible. It should look user friendly, not like a kid made it in his basement.

I want for Covid a system where I can load up lessons, with pictures and videos from my camera or online, create my own lesson bank from standards that are actually from my state without me typing all of them in every year.. I want to be able to create a checklist from those banks of lessons for kids To have completed for their asynchronous work and I would like for those checklists to be automatically updated for both parents and teachers to be able to Check when they are completed. SImilarly the grade for graded lessons will be posted next to the checklist for the week.

I then want THE SAME PROGRAM to help calculate grades and keep track of attendance. Also IEP information should pop up when an assignment is assigned to a SPED kid to remind me of their accommodations. This needs to be able to be shared with other people who work with that kid.

The aschryonous lessons should be tastefully arranged On a work board with pictures/titles that can be clicked on to do the lessons. Once the lesson has been completed, it should be grayed out so the children can still access, but know that it is done. I need to be able to assign different lessons to different children.

[Anonymous]

I want to be able to watch at least 6 of my 1st graders handwrite a sentence at a time, using something that closely approximates a pencil.

I want to see them do it in real time. So, I'd like to have whatever they write upon, show up on my computer screen -- watching all 6 papers at the same time. NOT typing; I want to see them handwrite on proper handwriting paper/lines.

the other thing I want to see them do is manipulate letter cards to build words. I give them f, c, t, a, o ,p , s , and m

and have them build words I say (make fat ... now make pat.... now make pot)

while watching them do it (all six of them at the same time, in real time) and providing feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to be able to watch at least 6 of my 1st graders handwrite a sentence at a time, using something that closely approximates a pencil.

I want to see them do it in real time. So, I'd like to have whatever they write upon, show up on my computer screen -- watching all 6 papers at the same time. NOT typing; I want to see them handwrite on proper handwriting paper/lines.

the other thing I want to see them do is manipulate letter cards to build words. I give them f, c, t, a, o ,p , s , and m

and have them build words I say (make fat ... now make pat.... now make pot)

while watching them do it (all six of them at the same time, in real time) and providing feedback.

YEs this- being able to flip the camera from talking/looking at me to having the kids work showing in real time is something I don’t know how to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to be able to watch at least 6 of my 1st graders handwrite a sentence at a time, using something that closely approximates a pencil.

I want to see them do it in real time. So, I'd like to have whatever they write upon, show up on my computer screen -- watching all 6 papers at the same time. NOT typing; I want to see them handwrite on proper handwriting paper/lines.

the other thing I want to see them do is manipulate letter cards to build words. I give them f, c, t, a, o ,p , s , and m

and have them build words I say (make fat ... now make pat.... now make pot)

while watching them do it (all six of them at the same time, in real time) and providing feedback.

YEs this- being able to flip the camera from talking/looking at me to having the kids work showing in real time is something I don’t know how to do.

Keep the comments coming! I really want to hear your anon thoughts.

[Anonymous]

I teach in a program with iPads. I'd like to be able to have all of my kids share their screen with me at the same time, and not have the screens visible to each other. I'd also like to be able to switch back and forth between everyone hearing me, and just the selected kids hearing me. Basically, I want the equivalent of handing out a worksheet, working the first problem together on the board (something I can do easily, I have my iPad participate as a separate participant, upload the worksheet to Notability, and share the screen so we can work through it), and then have the kids work independently while I wander around the room, stopping to crouch at the desk of a kid having trouble, and whispering to just them.

[Anonymous]

+1. To the math issue on the computer

I want to be able to see all of the breakout groups at one time so I can monitor what’s going on. Right now all I can do is go into each breakout group separately, which means I don’t know what the other groups are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1. To the math issue on the computer

I want to be able to see all of the breakout groups at one time so I can monitor what’s going on. Right now all I can do is go into each breakout group separately, which means I don’t know what the other groups are doing.

This! I want to see each breakout room and be able to listen in to any group that I click on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. To the math issue on the computer

I want to be able to see all of the breakout groups at one time so I can monitor what’s going on. Right now all I can do is go into each breakout group separately, which means I don’t know what the other groups are doing.

This! I want to see each breakout room and be able to listen in to any group that I click on.

Yep! (math poster above)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. To the math issue on the computer

I want to be able to see all of the breakout groups at one time so I can monitor what’s going on. Right now all I can do is go into each breakout group separately, which means I don’t know what the other groups are doing.

This! I want to see each breakout room and be able to listen in to any group that I click on.

Yep! (math poster above)

One thing that I do that gets around this is that I have breakout groups work in a common google doc. I send out the links to the doc and then I put the link to the breakout room at the top so they go to the doc, open the Breakout room and then come back to the doc so they can talk and write in the shared space, and not see each other. Then I can have each group in a window. And see them all at once and if I see a group stall I have the link right there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a program with iPads. I'd like to be able to have all of my kids share their screen with me at the same time, and not have the screens visible to each other. I'd also like to be able to switch back and forth between everyone hearing me, and just the selected kids hearing me. Basically, I want the equivalent of handing out a worksheet, working the first problem together on the board (something I can do easily, I have my iPad participate as a separate participant, upload the worksheet to Notability, and share the screen so we can work through it), and then have the kids work independently while I wander around the room, stopping to crouch at the desk of a kid having trouble, and whispering to just them.

Yes -- I'm an earlier poster. This is what I want to replicate. It is hard to provide direct feedback to just one younger kid who isn't reading much yet and needs more oral feedback. It's the small group group instruction of young students that is hard to implement through distance teaching right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. To the math issue on the computer

I want to be able to see all of the breakout groups at one time so I can monitor what’s going on. Right now all I can do is go into each breakout group separately, which means I don’t know what the other groups are doing.

This! I want to see each breakout room and be able to listen in to any group that I click on.

Yep! (math poster above)

One thing that I do that gets around this is that I have breakout groups work in a common google doc. I send out the links to the doc and then I put the link to the breakout room at the top so they go to the doc, open the Breakout room and then come back to the doc so they can talk and write in the shared space, and not see each other. Then I can have each group in a window. And see them all at once and if I see a group stall I have the link right there.

The small chat from the moderator is both a blessing and a curse. I love that we have them but the links are very small and they get truncated so while it is nice to have, they need to be bigger so that kids (and old fogeys like me) can see them better. I like your workaround btw and I will try it.

It would be nice if a breakout group could have a document side-by-side with the screen view of the 5-6 people in the breakout group. Even if it is just the discussion prompts or problems.