[ExI] reasonable what ifs

[William Flynn Wallace]

Now, when state wide testing happens next year, our lower-middle class
district out here on the eastern edge of civilization is going to politely
whoop aaassssss…



spike


*In what sense is your district middle class?  Compared to whom?  What
would it be if it were here?  Lower upper?*


*I do not have a link to the research showing going online is about as bad
as the summer slide.  It was not in the article.*


*bill w*

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *SR Ballard via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:34 AM
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> *Cc:* SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] reasonable what ifs
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> What does summer slide have to do with online learning? The best
> recommendation given for parents is just to keep kids using their skills
> over the summer — via online games or exercises for example.
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> SR Ballard
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> I have friends particularly in the math departments who will tell me how
> it is going.  One strategy for teachers is to double the work load in the
> hope that the students will do half of it.  Some will do all of it, and
> will charge ahead.  A math teacher friend of mine told me that she
> estimates as many as a third of her students are doing little to nothing.
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> There’s another signal I hope to extract: the benefit of having the school
> district ready to crank up on an hour’s notice.  Our district did, the
> surrounding districts did not.  They took two weeks to get going, some
> longer.  Once the students sat around with nothing to do for two or three
> weeks while their districts farted around tripping over themselves, many
> never really got started again.
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> The notice of shutdown came out on a Friday.  Our district fired up and
> ran the following Monday.  They had piles of ChromeBooks ready to give out
> to any student who didn’t have his or her own computer, the free WiFi was
> already up and running before that.
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> Now, when state wide testing happens next year, our lower-middle class
> district out here on the eastern edge of civilization is going to politely
> whoop aaassssss…
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> spike
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