Educational Resources & Tech Tools 07/07/2020

• Coronavirus: Close the bars. Reopen the schools. - Vox

  tags: covid-19 corona virus corona reopening

  • Reopening is a community-wide project. Whether a school can reopen safely, for example, doesn’t just depend on capacity, personal protective equipment, or individual actions. It depends on how widespread the coronavirus is in the community outside the school’s walls.
  • But if a community is flooded with infections, the chances are much higher that those infections will creep in no matter how many protective steps are embraced.
  • If you want to reopen schools this fall, then you need to get the spread of Covid-19 down, as close to zero as possible, this summer. And that means opting not to reopen — possibly at all and definitely not at full capacity — restaurants, bars, nightclubs, or other places that will lead to significantly more coronavirus spread but have less value to society than schools.
  • The goal is to keep the basic reproduction number in a community below 1. That would mean that every person who gets coronavirus transmits it to, on average, fewer than one other person. Over time, that would lead to coronavirus cases falling closer and closer to zero. This number is typically calculated as the R0 or Rt, depending on the methods used. (Some websites, like Rt.live, calculate this figure for all states, and it’s at 1 or more in most states.)
  • schools likely carry some risk of Covid-19 transmission, as an indoor environment in which students, teachers, and other school staff interact for hours. But schools are also really important for day-to-day life — not just for kids’ education, but also for food, shelter, and child care while parents are at work. Knowing that, a community may decide to fit schools into its reopening budget. The trade-off would be that other places, such as restaurants, bars, or gyms, more likely have to remain closed.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/25/2020

• 4 Tips for Teachers Shifting to Teaching Online | Edutopia

  • Tasks with few instructions often lead to the greatest amount of higher-order thinking, as students figure out what to do within defined parameters.
  • You need a single digital platform that your students can always visit for the most recent and up-to-date information.
  • You might want to check out a unit I created on probability and statistics to see how I provided instructions and set up checkpoints for my students.
  • To effectively manage your time and sanity, you will want to prioritize longer, student-driven assignments and tasks that buy you time to keep planning future units—and that get your students off the computer. Focus on building toward long-term projects where students have autonomy and a clear set of checkpoints and deadlines that need to be met. When possible, create opportunities for students to discuss what they’re learning with their families and include an element of student choice to really build engagement. 
  • What your students will miss the most is the human connection that is cultivated in your classroom.
  • While it can be tempting to focus on content in your distance learning assignments and instructional videos, what matters more is creating structures for personalized touchpoints with your students.
  • Create a structure and stick to it. Your students will see your investment and know that you care about them.

  • It’s important to bear in mind that cultivating an engaging distance learning experience is hard. It takes time and an incredible amount of patience. If you are new to the experience, you’re probably going to feel like a first-year teacher again. That’s OK! Tackle the challenges step by step, keep your students updated on your progress, and stay positive. You can do this!

     

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/20/2019

• Boys, girls and genders in-between: A classroom lesson for modern third-graders - Los Angeles Times

  tags: gender LGBTQ diversity inclusivity DEI

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/12/2019

• Gender Spectrum | Gender Spectrum provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.

  tags: gender LGBTQ diversity inclusivity DEI

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/11/2019

• How To Manage Emotions At Work: Life Kit : NPR

  • Whoever you're giving feedback to, make it specific, make it actionable. That shows you care about helping someone evolve and helping them level up.
  • Venting is useful for a small period of time, if you're doing it to someone you trust.
  • If you're feeling a really strong emotion, you sometimes just need to calm down because you're not in a rational state [to] figure out what you want to do next. [Venting] becomes negative and actually detrimental to your own success when it turns into rumination, which is just venting to vent.

  • What other ways do you recommend working with a coworker that kind of just rubs you the wrong way?

    Mollie West Duffy: One of them is to remember that they might have something going on you don't know about.

  • As much as you can, limit exposure to this person. Put a bubble around yourself.
  • When you're so invested in your job, that's when a co-worker that maybe drives you a little batty becomes this huge problem because work is everything to you. Just taking the time to invest in non-work things can be a really valuable way to come back to the office the next day with a little more distance.

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