Fri, Oct 30, 2020 9:43 AM in Smartphones in the Classroom
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I love that you are using the attachment that students have with their cellphones to better enhance their learning environment when it comes to STEM. However, one of my concerns with this idea is that students, especially with secondary students, would be tempted to be distracted with social media, games, and other platforms on their phones. If you are able to provide them take to gathe...
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Fri, Oct 30, 2020 9:40 AM in Distance Learning Problems
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As a pre-service teacher at Wartburg College, I was placed in a classroom which had a blind student who was participating in the virtual learning. Other students who were learning virutally often had parents that were there but not involved, so I can completely see where you are coming from in regards to grading students who are distance learning. One suggestion I might make would be to...
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Fri, Oct 30, 2020 9:26 AM in In Legislation to Support Climate Change Education, Symbolism is Not Enough by Glenn Branch
Before reading this article, I was well-aware that our country had made climate change/global warming more of a cross-cutting cleavage in our current political climate. However, this article opened my eyes to the amount of opportunities we will soon have as teachers. Back in 2014, there were roughly 41% of teachers that stated they were addressing climate change as something that was happening na...
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