Going Online for Learning

       Going online learning is nothing new to me but for a lot of people this is a new venture.  Especially if you are on the teaching side.  My colleague put it this way, "It is like putting on the wings of a plane while in flight."  I believe a lot of teachers have only been on the receiving end of an online class and have not set one up.  Once everyone is on board with online learning, snows will not be the same; school could still function.  A couple of problems have come up that makes this method of learning unachievable.  Some families do not have devices or the internet.  A lot of schools have foot the bill for devices and hotspots for them.  Many families do not have a device for each child.  The internet at my house has been lagging and very slow.  And some students do not use electronics to learn or they have support to do so.  

Students with many devices.

       The school system I work in uses Google Classroom as a way to communicate and teach their students.  The function I like most about Google Classroom is you can tier your activities.  Teachers often need the flexibility to differentiate assignments for students based on ability, learning styles, reading level, etc. In this case, the teacher chooses the assignment for each student/group of students. YAY!
       If you use google and know where to retrieve google apps, you have accomplished half your battle.  It is following the prompts from there.  I played with it for a while.  I added people to the the classroom and will add this blog to the assignment.  I have read that you can add activities (listed below) to classroom with no problem.

• Kahoot
• Quizizz
• Quizlet
• Quizlet Diagrams
• Formative
• Edulastic
• and many more!