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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend in PA has her 3rd grader in a concurrent classroom (she’s doing DL). The teacher faces the class and is also facing a camera. The at home kids are up on a big screen so the teacher can see them and the kids in school can also see them. Not sure if the at home kids can see the in school kids, but they can definitely hear them during discussions.

She said it’s working really well (but they’ve been doing it all year, not starting 3/4 of the way through and it’s a pretty wealthy district where the school and kids have great tech.)

I visited a school in rural Australia in the early 1990s that did concurrent learning. Some kids were in person, some had called in (no video). It worked for them with very limited technology, so I really don’t understand the angst over doing it with the advanced technology we have now. I know it’s new, but people should give it a chance. I think it can work.

I doubt rural Australia was doing anything remarkable- I had a sort of concurrent model for certain classes in my HS in rural US in the late 90s/early 00s- shared teachers with the other HS in the area. We had a room outfitted for this purpose with cameras, monitors, mics and it was awful. It was hard to hear our teacher when she was at the other school, impossible to hear classmates. This technology would obviously be outdated today but I don't think any of the big school systems around here will have current technology set up to run it like a small wealthy system in PA. That said, I'm giving it a chance. Although, I heard the PD given to APS staff on concurrent teaching yesterday was a flop.

Anonymous wrote:In concurrent grades it will be all the DL kids plus half the hybrid kids at home every day. Potentially 2/3.