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Without computers. Our school board is using MS Teams, SharePoint, and a custom web application. It’s terrible. Even adults struggle with SharePoint. Let alone
by agentultra 6y ago
Without computers.
Our school board is using MS Teams, SharePoint, and a custom web application. It’s terrible. Even adults struggle with SharePoint. Let alone an 8 year old kid. Let alone kids with different abilities and challenges.
Remote learning is terrible and I doubt it will ever be good enough to replace a classroom for you kids.
What could alleviate it is a device like a reMarkable. I gave mine to my daughter. With cloud sync and some scripts I wrote she has her work sheet handouts from her teacher on the device. It’s e-ink and she can write with a pen. It’s a thousand times easier than navigating SharePoint and trying to use MS Word.
But it’s still not enough. The video calls are terrible. Being at home around her parents all day is not great for her.
Best thing has been spending time together to be honest. Playing board games. Running around outside, hikes, etc.
But without the support of a community of educators trained to help kids develop, especially kids with special needs, it is very hard.
- mattbk1 6y agoOur kids aren't in K-12 yet, but we're already seeing how the elementary school relies on tablets and laptops. It's probably going to push one of us to run for school board.
- asdff 6y agoMy 90 year old grandfather could do calculus in his head. The math abilities of his generation are just absurd to me. He was educated at Carnegie Mellon, during the war he was an engineer in the SeaBees who helped rebuild China after the Japanese occupation, and he went on to be an engineer at Alcoa, where the family legend goes that he designed the largest lazy susan in the world at the time. All of this was done with a pencil and occasionally a slide rule. The power of learning to do by hand.