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Yes, some schools are planning on this. Breaks for lunch / recess. Too many schools are taking the approach that our learning wasn't structured enough in the s

Yes, some schools are planning on this. Breaks for lunch / recess. Too many schools are taking the approach that our learning wasn't structured enough in the spring, so we are going to the opposite extreme. It's going to have a negative effect on the children and caregivers. We have non-technical people on tight deadlines trying to reproduce brick and mortar on a computer screen. It's not going to end well. I feel for them, they are trying their best.

ghaff 6y ago
Both at work and in other professional activities, a number of workshops, team meetings, etc. I've been in, we've all pretty much collectively decided that three to four hours a day is about the most we can productively handle. We've done some combination of just paring back material and smearing things over more days. Not that professionals necessarily have the greatest attention spans; I've only somewhat joked that I couldn't deal with all-day high school classes today even in-person. But all-day Zoom seems totally undoable for kids.
- justinlink 6y ago
  I've had the same conversations and I've been warning my teacher wife that the path they are going down ignores what people in technology have already lived. The issue though comes down to each school is mandated to have so many school days and hours of instruction for the year. You can't just have a school year of 1 hour days and call it a year. If they don't actively teach the students for 900+ hours for the school year, they are in violation of the state mandate. Does giving an assignment online with no instruction count as hours? How many hours? When in doubt, take what you know, which is in person lectures online and reach the mandates. The children will suffer. The teachers will suffer. Administration/Government will meet their mandates.

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Yes, some schools are planning on this. Breaks for lunch / recess. Too many schools are taking the approach that our learning wasn't structured enough in the s

by justinlink 6y ago

ghaff 6y ago
Both at work and in other professional activities, a number of workshops, team meetings, etc. I've been in, we've all pretty much collectively decided that three to four hours a day is about the most we can productively handle. We've done some combination of just paring back material and smearing things over more days. Not that professionals necessarily have the greatest attention spans; I've only somewhat joked that I couldn't deal with all-day high school classes today even in-person. But all-day Zoom seems totally undoable for kids.
- justinlink 6y ago
  I've had the same conversations and I've been warning my teacher wife that the path they are going down ignores what people in technology have already lived. The issue though comes down to each school is mandated to have so many school days and hours of instruction for the year. You can't just have a school year of 1 hour days and call it a year. If they don't actively teach the students for 900+ hours for the school year, they are in violation of the state mandate. Does giving an assignment online with no instruction count as hours? How many hours? When in doubt, take what you know, which is in person lectures online and reach the mandates. The children will suffer. The teachers will suffer. Administration/Government will meet their mandates.