Los Angeles: Schools Discover Snafus of Distance Learning
The Los Angeles Times published a disturbing article about the problems and obstacles that students and teachers are encountering as online learning becomes the new normal. For many children, instruction is inaccessible.
The gaps between the haves and have-nots are glaring.
“ Misti Kemmer, a fourth-grade teacher at Russell Elementary School in South Los Angeles, is working hard to keep her students learning now that schools are closed. She shares detailed lesson plans on Google Drive, sends messages to families every day and delivers YouTube lectures from her home.
She’s trying to look at all this stuff on a tiny cellphone after dinner hours,” Kemmer said. “How much is a 9- year-old going to get done?”
“There’s this whole distance-learning thing, but how much learning is actually going on?” she added.
“But only three or four of her 28 students accessed their schoolwork last week, she said. Some don’t have computers and others are without internet access. One CONTINUE READING: Los Angeles: Schools Discover Snafus of Distance Learning | Diane Ravitch's blog