You’ve Got Questions. We’ve Got Answers – Have You Heard

You’ve Got Questions. We’ve Got Answers – Have You Heard

You’ve Got Questions. We’ve Got Answers

What do you want to know about education in a time of pandemic? We put that question to Have You Heard listeners, then rounded up an all-star cast of experts with answers. Should I tell my son that the online assignments he’s been doing won’t count? What do we want kids to remember about this time? And now that we’ve all seen for ourselves that edtech is NOT a silver bullet, will we finally be able to force some accountability from the industry and its boosters? Special guests include Derek Black, Audrey Watters and Ethan Hutt. Complete transcript here.

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You’ve Got Questions. We’ve Got Answers – Have You Heard

SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Six Potential Models For School Schedules During The COVID-19 Crisis

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

We’re exploring what kind of schedule we want to institute at our school while we’re closed, and came up with a simple document examining six models. Please check it out and let me know what we’re missing… I’m adding this info to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures.

Video: “7 Tips for Parents Supporting Remote Learning”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3h

Here’s a video Katie Hull and I just did with Ed Week:

Stop Wasting Money - This App Finds Every Promo Code Online

by Honeysponsored

If you aren't using this tool when you shop online, you're probably wasting money.

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

Eight years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this

YESTERDAY

“Editors Offer Suggestions to Teachers Who Want to Write a Book”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

Editors Offer Suggestions to Teachers Who Want to Write a Book is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Two editors explain what it takes for teachers to get published in the education realm, such as doing homework about the education book field and the publishers, knowing the audience, and focusing the topic. Here are some excerpts:

Four Cool Sites Where Students Can Transcribe Historical Documents

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

LwcyD / Pixabay Having students transcribe actual historic documents for museums, universities and libraries is a pretty cool learning project for students – it’s certainly an authentic audience. I have many sites that teachers can use at The Best Sites Where Students Can Transcribe Historical Texts . Here are five more that I’m adding to the list: From The Page has about a zillion different proj

The House Of Representatives Has Designated April As “April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

Yusril Permana ali The U.S. House of Representatives has designed April as “National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month.” It’s a particularly timely reminder as many English Language Learners face a threat of being short-changed in our transition to online learning (see English-Learners May Be Left Behind as Remote Learning Becomes ‘New Normal’ ). You might also be interested in The Be

“Five Ways to Boost Student Participation in Remote Learning”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 20h

Five Ways to Boost Student Participation in Remote Learning is another new column at Education Week Teacher. Helping students form habits and explaining they’ll get a chance to see their friends are just two ways to motivate them to do their online learning, says educator and researcher Harry Fletcher-Wood. Here’s an excerpt:

The Best Videos In Spanish To Help Parents & Students Access Tech In Remote Learning

by Larry Ferlazzo / 20h

kaboompics / Pixabay With the mass distribution of Chromebooks around the country, and the subsequent increased use of web tools, lots of our students and their parents may need to learn how to use it all. We’re not in the physical classroom to show students what to do, and Spanish-language videos might be helpful. By the way, I’m adding this post to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Te

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

BiljaST / Pixabay Six years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

CommonLit’s Newly Released Units Could Be A Big Help To English Teachers Cobbling Together Online Curriculum

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I’ve written a lot about CommonLit , and it’s on several “Best” lists. They’ve now released some fairly decent one-to-two week units for various grade levels, and are creating more. If you are an English teacher and are looking for some reasonably engaging off-the-shelf curriculum, I’d encourage you to take a look at them. I’m adding them to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers De

Statistic Of The Day: No Surprise, But Lots Of Our Students Don’t Have Internet Access

24by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Thousands of California students still without laptops and Wi-Fi for distance learning is a new article in Ed Source that’s worth reading. The information is no surprise, however, to many teachers, especially those of us who teach in 

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Listen to this – 2020 #1 – Wearing a Mask Edition | Live Long and Prosper

Listen to this – 2020 #1 – Wearing a Mask Edition | Live Long and Prosper

Listen to this – 2020 #1 – Wearing a Mask Edition

Meaningful quotes…

KIDS LIVING IN POVERTY DON’T HAVE ANY LOBBYISTS

Schools have closed for the coronavirus pandemic and most will likely not open again this school year. Many school systems have gone to online learning, but because a significant percentage of students have little or no access to the internet, some students are not being served.

How can schools best serve all students (including students with special learning or physical needs) and what happens next year when some students have had the benefit of online learning experiences and others have not? Do we test all the kids to see where they are? Do we retain kids? (answer: NO!) The coronavirus pandemic, like other disasters and disruptions, hurt most, the kids who need school the most and have the least.

From Steven Singer
in Virtual Learning Through Quarantine Will Leave Poor and Disabled Students Behind

This just underlines the importance of legislation. Special education students have IDEA. Poor students have nothing. There is no right to education for them at all.

From Steve Hinnefeld and Pedro Noguera
in Time for ‘educational recovery planning’

…the massive and sudden shift to online learning is exposing huge gaps in CONTINUE READING: Listen to this – 2020 #1 – Wearing a Mask Edition | Live Long and Prosper

Russ on Reading: John Prine: Poet from Paradise

Russ on Reading: John Prine: Poet from Paradise

John Prine: Poet from Paradise

This blog dedicated to literacy education and teaching may seem like a strange place to be discussing the contributions of a singer-songwriter like John Prine. But Prine, who died on April 7 of Corvid 19 complications, was a true American poet in the grand tradition of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Carl Sandburg. No less an eminence than Bob Dylan recognized him for his "pure Proustian existentialism." Whatever, the man could write a song lyric like few others could and those lyrics deserve both celebration and study for their wit, beauty, and keen insight into the human condition..

The first song of John's that I was aware of was "Sam Stone" from his first album on Atlantic in 1971. This was an anti-war song, but as was typical of much of John's work, his observations were rooted in the personal.

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.

But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes, CONTINUE READING: Russ on Reading: John Prine: Poet from Paradise

NYC Educator: Land of the Free

NYC Educator: Land of the Free

Land of the Free

I've never seen our country quite in the condition it's in. How can it be, in the richest country in the world, that we have no masks for doctors and nurses? How can it be that hospitals are dressing employees in plastic bags because they haven't got protective gowns?

How can it be that we have a President hyping unproven treatments in which he owns stock? How, after all this time, can COVID testing be inaccessible to so many? With such scarce testing, how can we determine with any accuracy how deadly this pandemic is? I spoke to someone yesterday whose significant other had tested positive, yet she and her children were not sure they could get tested.

This is not the country I learned about when I was a kid. In fact, it seems more like a third world banana republic of sorts. I thought that when GW Bush became President based on Daddy's court and little brother's state. Lately, though, that seems like a quaint memory.

I didn't think we'd see a worse president than GW, but now we have one. He's managed to make our reptilian governor look like a hero. Andrew Cuomo may be cutting Medicaid in the midst of a pandemic, and he may refuse to make his well-heeled BFFs pay additional taxes, but he's a grownup who's not insane. You can't say that about the juvenile narcissist in the White House.

And take a look at what's going on elsewhere, In Wisconsin, they had a primary on Tuesday. One of the republican legislators who pushed this through got dressed up in a mask and gown, announcing it was perfectly safe for all the residents who lacked access to the protective gear. You wouldn't see this in a science fiction film because fiction needs to be believable. The hypocrisy was simply mind-blowing.

And the results on the ground were incredible. Milwaukee, which contains a large population of people of color, had five polling places for the entire city. Two years ago, there were 200. People waited up to five hours in the hail to vote. Only 3% of eligible voters showed up, a 90% drop. Why? Because the deciding vote on the Wisconsin Supreme Court was CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: Land of the Free

When Teaching and Parenting Collide: As Schools Shift Online, Many Educators Manage Two Roles (Matt Barnum) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

When Teaching and Parenting Collide: As Schools Shift Online, Many Educators Manage Two Roles (Matt Barnum) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

When Teaching and Parenting Collide: As Schools Shift Online, Many Educators Manage Two Roles (Matt Barnum)

Matt Barnum is a journalist. This article appeared on Chalkbeat, March 31,2020

School buildings are closed, but it’s still been a busy couple of weeks for Noriko Nakada, a Los Angeles middle school teacher.

She’s been attending virtual faculty meetings, receiving district training for remote instruction, and grading student essays online. On Monday, she held a class via Zoom for about 45 minutes, in which she checked in on her students’ mental health and introduced National Poetry Month. About 100 of her 170 students logged in.

Nearby through it all are her own two children, who are out of school as well. Figuring out how to teach online while making sure they’re occupied has been its own challenge.

“At first we tried to make it clear if mom or dad have headphones and are staring at the computer, it means you can’t bug them,” Nakada said. “The 8-year-old can get that, but the 5-year-old has a hard time.”

“Everyone is doing their best, and none of it’s going to be pretty,” she said.

As many schools across the country transition to remote instruction — in the CONTINUE READING: When Teaching and Parenting Collide: As Schools Shift Online, Many Educators Manage Two Roles (Matt Barnum) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice