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Concerned with students either not having devices, wifi or parents that are able to help with technology.

Suggestion for voice amplifier system for in person school with masks.

https://www.amazon.com/ZOWEETEK-Amplifier-buletooth-Microphone%EF%BC%88Wireless-Rechargeable/dp/B07YJK1SX1/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=voice+amplifier+zoweetek&qid=1591996420&sr=8-7

speaker

https://www.amazon.com/Zoweetek-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Shockproof-Dust-Proof/dp/B07D4GWY9P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=zoweetek+speaker&qid=1591996483&sr=8-1

tf-card

https://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-MicroSD-Everything-But-Stromboli/dp/B01IC96TFA/ref=sr_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=tf+card&qid=1591996548&sr=8-17

How do we get kids to connect and learn with at-home learning.

Ways to keep students engaged.

Connect with the family as a whole, siblings and pets.

Make it fun!
Have guest speakers. Example Friday person joined class meeting. Maybe have a mystery guest and give clues for students to guess who it is and they will want to join to see who it is.

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CONCERNS: not supported by administration/school district. District should have PAUSED to re-group to figure things out before they introduced the game plan. We worked HARD & students didn't use our resources & do the work. FAMILIES couldn't figure things out! Motivating the kids & having them engage. Students must learn keyboarding skills in elementary grade levels. The kids can't keep going in different TECHNOLOGICAL directions.
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WHAT WORKED: teachers have to be organized and have scheduled virtual meetings so the students got into the routine. MUST encourage the kids that this tech-stuff won't go away, for next school year and even for their future careers. Study Island, Flipgrid, Zoom meetings, Nearpod, Canvas -- requires a lot of teacher training, Google Classroom, Gimkit, Kahoot, Quizlet, Pear Deck. Email the kids and cc the parents in order to get "connection" with the students.
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FOR FUTURE: teachers in all subject matters should try to incorporate a BIT of technology (keyboarding skills, how to submit documents via Google Classroom, etc.). Limit the technology platforms because it pulls the kids in different directions.
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-Using Canvas as an instructor not as a student.
-More tools for teaching
*BreakoutEDU
*Edpuzzle
*Buncee
*SeeSaw
*BookCreator
*StorybookThat
-"As a parent what are we as the teachers doing to adapt and bring your online platform to students and parents?"
-Challenges/Successes
Teachers were in need of Social Emotional Learning for themselves.
Meetings overlapping/District had to setup a block schedule for Zoom mtgs.
-Special Ed teacher was able to tweak schedules and work with those students that were behavior problems became happier than they were in brick and mortar.
-Special Ed in younger grades the successes were with those parents that were involved.
-Gained relationships with parents.

Building Relationships with Next Year:
Google Meets
Personal notes/letters to students and parents inviting them to join the online classroom

We have competitions for house points by doing silly activities.

My team is doing these crazy physical challenges at home and filming videos of it. Such as ice bucket challenge, Chubby Bunny Challenge, Funny selfie challenge, etc

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We are expressing a lot of concerns regarding the fact that many students don't have devices and/or internet. And those that have internet, are not very reliable. We are worried about what the fall will look like. Will we be online again, return like normal, or have a mixed/hybrid approach. Some states have gone to Phase/Level 2, and the numbers of cases have grown because some are still not taking it seriously.

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-Issue of students not connecting was an issue in every district - various reasons.
-"had to humble myself" to what was happening in our student's classrooms
-for specialists or specials classes, student just didn't participate
-Focus on SEL first
-get prepared because we don't know what will happen in the fall
-flexible in scheduling

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Concerns that not all students have devices or even WIFI.  Some schools provided one device per family; some provided buses that had WIFI and would park in various places in the community; some had businesses that provided WIFI to  students.
Just b/c a student has a laptop/needed supplies doesn't guarantee students will do the actual work.
Concern that students did not do ANY assignments during our distance learning.
Live lessons won't be possible for distance learning b/c that's not equitable, so recorded lessons, student flexibility will be key to student success.
Teachers are worried that students will now expect that they won't be held accountable after the distance learning this past spring when no grades could go down; kids didn't have to do assignments, etc.
How do we meet IEPs/504s?
SimpleK12--online PD in your pajamas.  https://www.simplek12.com/
Free upcoming webinars:  https://www.simplek12.com/webinar/

Screencastify to record videos for students
Edpuzzle lets you create videos for students
Concerns that students won't do the work--surprisingly, the best students were the ones who opted NOT to do the work!

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What role can we (as educators) play in mitigating the digital divide among our students?