ED 262 KCKCC Sp '24

Is virtual learning going to replace school snow days? Here’s what some school districts are saying about virtual learning on severe weather days.

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"Emergency online teaching. Remote delivery of instruction. Or just plain online learning. Call it what you will, many of the nation’s students are doing it in one form or another now that schools are closed coast to coast over the fast-spreading coronavirus. There’s just one problem: millions of students in the country don’t have a reliable way to get online."

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"It could be argued—and probably argued well—that what a student fundamentally needs to know today isn’t much different than what Tom Sawyer or Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great needed to know.

 

Communication.Resourcefulness.Creativity.Persistence.

 

How true this turns out to be depends on how macro you want to get. If we want to discuss our needs as humans in broad, sweeping themes, then food, water, shelter, connectivity, safety, and some degree of self-esteem pretty much cover it.

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Mobile apps, virtual graduation ceremonies, and an online job fair are among the many unique innovations forced by COVID-19.

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"Everyone of us can remember a really positive first impression that we have had of someone as well as a really negative or bad first impression that we have had of someone. What made it so positive? What made it so negative? First impressions matter, a lot, yet it is so easy to lose sight of how important our actions are right from the start with those we lead and interact with daily."

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Here are fifteen important statistics and facts to let you know what is influencing our education system today.

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