What will I choose to leave out of this message, and why
Ohh - this is good one, thinking about what you DON'T include! These are similar to questions you want kids to pose when evaluating sources, but I love that they pose questions to themselves and reflect and also think of their own messages the same way we want them to look at more established media.
comics-loving kids and teens occupied
that would be most of them - love these! I don't know this world very well so these are helpful
Dav Pilkey, Dolly Parton, and LeVar Burton Offer Stay-at-Home Activities, Read-Alouds for Kids
a lot of people don't realize that Dolly Parton is a huge benefactor for early childhood literacy!
last class session in a “reflective” and “celebratory” way, given the limits of remote instruction
Love that they recognized the value in this!
sense a deep need on their part to process this surreal situation, and what better way to do it than in a writing class
Bravo to this teacher for recognizing this and throwing out her plans instead of just plowing ahead.
LoomieLive, which lets users create a 3D avatar
interesting way to let students activate creativity to express their individuality, which is hard to do in a zoom call when you have a postage size bit of you on someone's screen!
This would be a great time, she says, “for professors from different institutions to start putting their classes in conversation with each other
I think the future of education is going to involve more cross-campus collaborations. It's not just about cross-enrollment, but collaborations between professors too!
online tools she favors in her own teaching — tools that let her connect with students differently than they could face-to-face. For instance, she uses an app called Hypothesis, which lets people socially annotate a text.
She's not trying to do a pale imitation of face-to-face but explore things you can't do in face to face as easily. Like Hypothes.is!
I’ve had to become my seven-year-old brother’s teacher.
I bet this happens a lot and we haven't been hearing about it, we're hearing all the time about parents having issues with helping their kids. But esp. in ELL families it falls a lot on the teens to do these things.
this remote learning is an F in my book.
Really hard on the kids who live for things like music, theatre and sports.
putting work on to the shared area online which we have to manually search through hundreds of files everyday to find that work that has been set for our classes.
that sounds awful!
freed time has allowed me to pursue interests not supported by the public school system, as I have had more time to learn to code, and even accomplished creating a Virtual Private Network from scratch.
that's cool - the student used unstructured time to pursue passions!
I enjoy the new schedule that internet school has given me, since I finally have time to sleep as much as I need and feel well rested and ready to work.
Perhaps students will benefit from staggered schedules when we go back and get more sleep?
quite nice working at your own pace so you’re able to be less stressed with deadlines. But at the same time because of that, I have had a great deal of trouble keeping up with all of the work
I like how she recognizes the power of working at her own pace - how can we provide this more often? Here it is countered by a greater amount of work and lack of support. But maybe we can harness the independent pacing idea with the right type of expectations and support when we have face to face time again.
School is not only a place for study, but a place to prepare us for future life
When school is online it often has all the things stripped away that make school a community and not just an activity. I think this is a hard balancing act for teachers. The attention span just isn't there online, lessons usually have to be shorter and the times when all students are together for synchronous meetings they can't all see each other and it's more controlled.
I am really anxious to get back to school and really foster my love of learning through my peers.
Love that she realized how powerful it is to learn from each other!
I keep pushing assignments back until the last second.
My daughter was just saying tonight that she feels like she has all day to do stuff and there isn't anything in her day to build it around. Seeing friends was a big incentive for her to get things done, but now there's seemingly endless time to get stuff done. Except there's not! Time is a funny thing these days.
School also taught us responsibility
That's a pretty big realization for some kids. I'd like to ask kids when they get back, what did you realize you learn in school besides the "subjects" that you weren't able to get when you were at home?