What's your kid doing with remote learning?

6 years ago

My daughter is in the Engineering/STEM "pathway" at her high school. Her Introduction to Engineering Design class had started a computer-aided design unit when the school went to remote learning. It took us a while, but we got the software for use at home (free student license) and she whipped out her school project in just a few hours (it was for something that they could 3D print). With her newfound free time, I set her to work designing a base for an end table (we'd do a glass top). This is what she came up with:

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view from the bottom.

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arcy_gw

6 years ago

Our school district has given no mandates as far as grades. We were told when planning our virtual class to keep in mind our teens (this is high school) are working, babysitting for siblings,may be sharing one devise in a home. Thus classes should not entail more than one half hour of work each day and they all need to be recorded so they can be accessed when it works for the student. We keep tellikng our "at risk learners" it won't get any easier than this!!! Of the 80 students my program deals with I would say most are just getting it done. Then there are those who think if they ignore it, it will go away. A bff has grands in a private elementary school, they hooked into some on line curriculum and found it so challenging all their students are dropping grades. The principal told parents last week not to be concerned about "GPA" as they will not be marking grades this year. As said by another here, every district is different. Still I think families finding this remote learning to be a new experience, some a hurdle some a mild challenge. Harkens back to the early days of our country in rural areas where organised schools weren't a thing. I bet the home schoolers are having a good chuckle at all the angst.

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pudgeder
6 years ago
Impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!
bpath
6 years ago
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Well, that’s pretty cool-looking and it looks like an Escher design to me!

My DS is in college, and was on a roll with in-person classes finally, after a couple of onlines elsewhere, Now he is online again, but they just decided to default all classes to pass/fail, with the option to take a letter grade. We’ll see.

Just have to say, I am SO GLAD I don’t have a student in k-12 now. Especially not MY kids.
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maddielee
6 years ago
Amazing....if I still had a child at home during this I’d be happy if they didn’t revert back a few grade levels.
eld6161
6 years ago
We spoke with our niece our in a California. Her two will be learning remotely but were told that grades would only go up.
chispa
6 years ago
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CA is a big place with a lot of school districts and they aren't all the same. I'm sure it is the same in most other states. Our district just told the kids to make sure they were doing the work and getting it to their teachers. Not doing your work doesn't get rewarded in an in person class and won't be rewarded remotely either. The remote learning kinks have been worked out the last few weeks and there are no excuses now. The kids in our district have not been told that their grades will only go up ... that isn't how things work in the real world.
Oakley
6 years ago
My two grands are lucky because their mom teaches at their elementary school. She's also working at getting her Master of Library Science degree via remote. They have certain subjects like math but I'm not sure how many a day, She made a cute school room at home for the three of them. :)

DGS who's 11, is keeping his sax lessons by remote from the school. That's awesome!
eld6161
6 years ago
Chispa, they are in a San Diego. Just mentioning what I was told.
mtnrdredux_gw
6 years ago
Whatever they are doing, I don't think it's that cool!

Given their ages, we pretty much stay out of their hair except when we can be of help clarifying something where we have expertise.

It seems that curriculum adjustments are being made, but even in private schools that can only go so far since course A is a prereq for course B, etc. None of their schools have announced an official change in grading policy I don't think. However, generally there is an understanding that this is a period of stress and reduced instruction time, and so I think teachers may be bit more generous?
roarah
6 years ago
My seventh grader is bored already with only two weeks online. She said her accelerated math class accelerated in the wrong direction for they are reviewing the work from the first units. They are not yet using a video platform for they rightly decided against zoom but next week a few classes wil use a closed circuit chat platform. Hopefully this will lead to more education and less busy work But some routine is better than none so I support what ever the teachers push out.
bpath
6 years ago
Roarah, our experience with accelerated classes is that once it is out of the hands of the accelerated teacher, it defaults to review. It’s so frustrating for the students, isn’t it,