"NY Times writers collaborated with the Common Sense Media writer Kelly Schryver to focus on the increasingly important and nuanced question "Who Are You Online?" Times and Learning Network content as well as offerings from Common Sense Media's K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum for teaching and learning about this complex issue." Lots of avenues to take this material in working with students.
For example (to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)Is this the real life?Maybe just allergies?Caught in a lockdownNo escape from the familyDon't touch your eyes, Just hand sanitize quickly!
Is this the real life?Maybe just allergies?Caught in a lockdownNo escape from the familyDon't touch your eyes, Just hand sanitize quickly!
For example (to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)
Each week I will post a fun activity to try if you would like. Anyone in the school can complete the task! Send your final product to Ms. Kelly: meghan.kelly@springsschool.org and a winner will be chosen and featured on my website!YOUR TASK: Create a "Parody" of a song that describes what is happening right now in the world. Take a song and re-write the words to talk about social-distancing/ staying at home/however you are feeling. Make a video of you singing, dancing, and send the words and video to Ms. Kelly. One winner will be chosen. Good luck!
This page by Kelly Fitzgerald, teacher, has a few good step by step presentations on different ways you can use Youtube - from uploading videos and creating playlists, to making slide presentations with music.
give state regulators a new option to either act as accreditors or create their own accreditation systems.
“States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways to cut prices and boost student learning.
decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
regional accreditors are doing a fairly good job. They are under enormous pressure to keep “bad actors” at bay while also encouraging experimentation. And he said accreditors usually get it right.
Andrew Kelly, however, likes Lee’s idea. Kelly, who is director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher Education Reform, said it would create a credible alternative to the existing accreditation system, which the bill would leave intact.
eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a top priority
“Accreditation could also be available to specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
“The gateway to education reform is education oversight reform,”
broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches to higher education.
expansion of competency-based education. And he said the federal rules governing financial aid make it hard for colleges to go big with those programs.
accreditors is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
“The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
changes to the existing accreditation system that might make it easier for competency-based and other emerging forms of online education to spread.
offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
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Different way of looking at independent reading time.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, is our anchor text for a unit of study examining the archetypal hero’s journey, which speaks to teenagers’ process of self-discovery (Campbell 1972). It is also the book I am using to teach students how to question and visualize. Our essential question is, “How do trials in our journey through high school shape us?” We use that question as we talk about Speak and our own high school lives.
Kelly Gallagher notes in Deeper Reading, “if we simply assign reading instead of teaching students how to read, we’ll get poor reading” (2004, 7).
I think this applies to most anything today, and it's a powerful lesson: The power is not in learning content, but in learning how to learn! Love the idea of "get good at being a beginner!" Thanks for the article!
“You have to teach the student — that’s me — not only to learn stuff but to learn how to learn.”