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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are School hands out Chromebooks at the beginning of the year to every student so I don't see that being an issue[/quote]

I teach at a private school that went to distance learning on snow days a few years ago.  I'll be honest and say that distance learning on snow days is less fun that playing outside with my kids on snow days, but I do think that the practice is one of the reasons that we pivoted to DL so well during COVID.

But one of the reasons why it works is that 100% of our kids have devices, because we're a 1:1 school, and while we do have families with challenges with internet access, we already problem solved those issues before the shut down happened.

I think one of the questions that I have is whether LEA's that are providing 1:1 devices for students during DL will continue to use that model when we return to in person learning.  If so, I think that continuing with DL for snow days makes a lot of sense, because it will keep teachers' and students' skills with the technology fresh.

Another reason why the pivot went well for me is that as soon as it became obvious that DL was coming, I started teaching my classes virtually in the classroom.  So, for the last week or two of in person school in March, I was having my kids log in to the platform we knew we'd be using, and participate as if they were remote (e.g. going to our online portal to find and submit in class work, participating through tools like the chat function, and google forms rather than verbally, etc . . . ). We also had several high risk teachers who moved to teaching from their homes, with kids learning from the classroom under the watchful eye of a substitute.  My guess is that when we return to school, we'll continue to do some learning in this way, so that the skills are maintained.

But whether public school could do the same things, depends on whether they're going to continue to support the 1:1 technology once we're back to in person learning.  I don't think that's at all clear. [/quote]

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