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Martin Leicht

What happened to America's teens when coronavirus disrupted high school? - 10 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...teens-poll-academics

shared by Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 21 - No Cached
  • biggest challenge of the pandemic was not that I was depressed but just, every day became the same thing. It kind of became, like, boring and saddening because this isn’t what I’m used to.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 21
       
      You can't do the same thing online that you did in class. It doesn't translate.
  • Covid gave them the chance to see that, hey, our kids actually learn better when they have a little bit of a break.
Martin Leicht

Treehouse teaching and laundry art: Educators find creative ways to reach kids - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...b-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html

learning zoom online teaching laundry

shared by Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • was also concerned about her students’ lack of engagement — so few were completing the assignments she emailed to parents
  • Playing with her family’s laundry marked the first time Maliah seemed happy — actually happy — since the start of the pandemic.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - happy - happy is good. Happy kids want to learn or are more likely to learn.
  • Nobody should ever be penalized or put at a disadvantage for the supplies they don’t have,” Dillingham thought to herself. “But everyone’s got laundry!”
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  • Clark started an online fundraiser to pay for bikes. He raised more than $10,000, and neighbors donated dozens of bikes and helmets for the rides.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - a little digital citizenship too mixed in with online fund raising.
  • She couldn’t be sure whether her kids were uninterested or whether they lacked the necessary pens, paper and crayons at home.
  • He decided he would take his students on socially distanced bike rides across the city. “It was a leap of faith. I got extremely nervous. I was trying to find a way to connect with kids,” Clark said.
  • her young students are musical detectives, in search of learning. She teaches most grade levels and the school chorus.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - musical detectives searching for music.
  • t he’s found other ways to keep his students engaged and cycling the city. He invited students to a weekly entrepreneurship class for which they rode their bikes uptown from Dunbar to the gym where Clark works, Sweat DC. The students met with the owner of the gym and the owners of a nearby bar, Hook Hall, and the bagel shop Call Your Mother Deli to learn what it takes to run a business.
  • She wanted them to create their own composition, their own snowy-day song.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - used flipgrid for this
  • When Clark wanted to teach them about resilience, he took them through the hilly streets of Georgetown.
  • In lessons for older students, some days there were makeshift drums involved or recorders that students had taken home.
  • she was able to use the treehouse as a key part of her lessons.
  • She lugged a bookshelf, desk and heater into the 5-by-7-foot space, and ran an Ethernet cable from the house so she’d have Internet.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - properly set up
  • before climbing into what passes for her classroom in 2020: her daughters’ decade-old treehouse.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - different locals - maybe something with changing backgrounds.
  • So as one class studied architecture this fall, Daney, 54, encouraged them to walk in their neighborhood to take photos of houses of different styles: ranch, colonial, Victorian.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - use what you have around you.
  • nd he stuck with his usual method of helping students learn about the design process, asking them to prepare a meal. They started with ideas and research, made a plan, carried it out and evaluated it. The result: soups and pastas and pastries.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - edTech class on engineering and design
  • Kids need connection, he said. “I think they’re starving for conversation,” including with adults.
  • In fifth grade, students are expected to learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with whole numbers, decimals and fractions. Through a computer application the students have, they can program the robot to move a certain distance, stop, maybe even turn.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - use a robot or technology to achieve the same result.
  • With learning all-virtual, he packs a big Ziploc bag — for each student, each quarter — with things like fishing line, foam board, pipecleaners, magnets, Popsicle sticks and rubber bands. Whatever they will need for their projects.
  • And a lot of the math is a little sneaky. They think they are trying to get the robot to move, when they are actually measuring the angles to get it to move.”  
  • Others complete their math problems directly on the computer, which can lead to some troubles as they try to show their work.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - will share screen be viable.
  • When Kristin Gavaza interviewed for the music teacher position at Dorothy I. Height Elementary in the summer, she told the principal she had some ideas for how to create a festive concert while students were scattered and learning from home.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
       
      NOTE - picture references a complete teacher set up of a large screen and standing desk. Sure, she's video editing yet the concept carries to teaching class too.
  • Martin Leicht on 11 Jan 21
     
    Numerous creative examples to how educators promoted learning on line and worked to build engagement.
Cathy Yungmann

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/24/federal-judge-holds-devos-contempt-loan-case-slaps-education-dept-with-fine/?wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics&wpmk=1 - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...slaps-education-dept-with-fine

debt loans education judge

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  • Cathy Yungmann on 25 Oct 19
     
    Massive fine to federal Education Department for continuing to defraud former for-profit college loan students.
Jeff Andersen

Attention, college shoppers. These schools are slashing their prices. - The Washington Post - 15 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html

college prices

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  • Jeff Andersen on 29 Jan 19
     
    As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. St. John's College slashed tuition from $52,734 in this school year to $35,000 in the next.
k moses

The Saudi explanation for Jamal Khashoggi's death is a fable. Still Trump plays along. - The Washington Post - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

shared by k moses on 20 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • As Mr. Trump surely knows, the new Saudi cover story is contradicted not just by evidence collected by Turkish authorities and by journalists but also by the reporting of the U.S. intelligence community. All point to Mohammed bin Salman as the instigator of a premeditated, cold-blooded and brutal murder, followed by the dismemberment of Mr. Khashoggi’s body. As The Post’s Shane Harris reported, CIA officials have listened to an audio recording in the possession of Turkish officials they say backs up their account that Mr. Khashoggi was murdered minutes after entering the consulate by a team of 15 men. The Post has identified five of those men as probable members of the crown prince’s personal security detail.
    • k moses
      k moses on 20 Oct 18
       
      Again ... Its sort of excellent that Trump has dropped all subtlety on dealing with the relationship of the USA and The House of Saud, ... I sure hope it revives the questions that were raised about 15 of the 19 plane hijackers were Saudis and their origins and funding were not subjected to scrutiny,
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

'Big data' was supposed to fix education. It didn't. It's time for 'small data.' - The Washington Post - 33 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...-didnt-its-time-for-small-data

shared by Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • the limitations of current big data-driven policies and practices
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 01 Jun 16
       
      There is a difference between claiming that big data does not work and claiming that current big-data driven policies do not work.
Mary Higgins

Why smart kids shouldn't use laptops in class - The Washington Post - 170 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...-shouldnt-use-laptops-in-class

computer use in class

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  • Mary Higgins on 17 May 16
     
    Researchers have determined how much bringing a laptop to class hurts your grades
Glenn Hervieux

Principal: What happened when my school ended useless homework - The Washington Post - 99 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...-school-ended-useless-homework

homework education

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 21 Mar 16
     
    Interesting article discussing homework in the elementary school setting and some outcomes when it was discontinued in a school.
smilex3md

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. - The Washington Post - 32 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...dity-stop-treating-it-like-one

college commodity highered teaching waspost article socy201 socy402

shared by smilex3md on 18 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • What truly makes an education valuable: the effort the student puts into it.
  • Unlike a car, college requires the “buyer” to do most of the work to obtain its value. The value of a degree depends more on the student’s input than on the college’s curriculum.
  • Yet most public discussion of higher ed today pretends that students simply receive their education from colleges the way a person walks out of Best Buy with a television.
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  • If colleges are responsible for outcomes, then students can feel entitled to classes that do not push them too hard, to high grades and to material that does not challenge their assumptions or make them uncomfortable.
  • This point is made succinctly by an apocryphal story about a university president who said this to new freshmen each year: “For those of you who have come here in order to get a degree, congratulations, I have good news for you. I am giving you your degree today and you can go home now. For those who came to get an education, welcome to four great years of learning at this university.”
  • smilex3md on 18 Jun 15
     
    "College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one."
Matt Renwick

Still more questions than answers about how to treat ADHD - The Washington Post - 16 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html

shared by Matt Renwick on 04 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Matt Renwick on 04 Jun 15
     
    A change in diet helps some people; for others, solutions are hard to find and often incomplete.
Lorinda Cain-Bowles

Poverty, family stress are thwarting student success, top teachers say - The Washington Post - 43 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html

poverty education family teaching

shared by Lorinda Cain-Bowles on 27 May 15 - No Cached
  • Lorinda Cain-Bowles on 27 May 15
     
    Biggest barriers to learning
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