TSwizzle
Let's Go Brandon!
Boo hoo Jimmy. Your whining is tedious.
Wah, people are dying needlessly. Such a whiny liberal.
Waaaaaah this all cheatos fault, waaaaaaah.
*yawn*
Boo hoo Jimmy. Your whining is tedious.
Wah, people are dying needlessly. Such a whiny liberal.
We have the worst leadership in the White House in our nation's history.
Devin Nunes says young people should just go out to bars and restaurants and have a good time. It's important those establishments keep a stream of money going.
TSwizzle said:In two to three weeks time we will be getting back to normal.
All bars and restaurants are ordered closed to sit in customers today in Michigan. Take out only.
Yeah, I have many friends in that situation.First day of "remote learning" tomorrow. As one of our certificated online instructors I also obligatorily serve as an advisor for folks in training, usually not a big job, but of course now I've been fielding calls and e-mails all day. I can tell you one thing for certain, tomorrow will be a bit of a disaster. Plenty of our faculty have never so much as tried to teach online before, and if they are finding the learning curve.steep the students will be baffled. Many of them don't have computers at home, more than you'd assume if you haven't spent much time in poor communities.
Still, I grouse, but I am not challenging the call. Better confused students than dead ones, or a sea of typhoid Maries out into the community from our port.
Yeah, I have many friends in that situation.First day of "remote learning" tomorrow. As one of our certificated online instructors I also obligatorily serve as an advisor for folks in training, usually not a big job, but of course now I've been fielding calls and e-mails all day. I can tell you one thing for certain, tomorrow will be a bit of a disaster. Plenty of our faculty have never so much as tried to teach online before, and if they are finding the learning curve.steep the students will be baffled. Many of them don't have computers at home, more than you'd assume if you haven't spent much time in poor communities.
Still, I grouse, but I am not challenging the call. Better confused students than dead ones, or a sea of typhoid Maries out into the community from our port.
How do you deal with assessment and testing to determine grades when there is no control over their use of textbooks, internet, friends, classmates, etc.?
I hear one method is to use strict test timing to reduce ability to "look things up", but those with learning disabilities (sometimes 1/3 the class these days) would have a problem with that and it just disadvantages slow readers.
Another method I can see based upon my own work with assessment is to create applied inference questions where the answer cannot be found anywhere but must be inferred from an understanding of the concepts and their causal/logical relations to each other. That doesn't have to mean, hard to grade open-ended questions. You can create multiple choice inference questions that require inferences from a conceptual understanding. This approach doesn't solve the cheating with classmates/friends problem, but at least if they had to get someone to explain the answer to them, then they might learn something while cheating
Also, creating inference/application questions is far more difficult than the memory based questions most tests consists of, but can be easily cheated. Also, students who don't do well on inference tests get mad, b/c they can't see how the correct answer is tied to what was covered in the course, so they see the questions as "unfair".
These are problems for online assessment in the long term, beyond the added difficulty of having to create a online course overnight.
It might take 4 to 8 weeks. And the muddling is certain as the CDC was castrated by the Trump Administration and nothing was accomplished in the three month lead up to this.In two to three weeks time we will be getting back to normal. In the meantime we will muddle through.
The cities and states have been forced to put together an ad hoc response, because the Executive Branch is so utterly incompetent to handle this. But at least they got to rile up some liberals, so win some, lose some.
Boo hoo Jimmy. Your whining is tedious.
Devin Nunes says young people should just go out to bars and restaurants and have a good time. It's important those establishments keep a stream of money going.
All bars and restaurants are ordered closed to sit in customers today in Michigan. Take out only.
Same thing in our county - for two weeks. Am I cynical or does that duration have to do with not being able to collect unemployment?
All bars and restaurants are ordered closed to sit in customers today in Michigan. Take out only.
Same thing in our county - for two weeks. Am I cynical or does that duration have to do with not being able to collect unemployment?
I think it's more about not ordering it for any longer than they are sure is necessary. I'm sure it will be extended.
I think it's more about not ordering it for any longer than they are sure is necessary. I'm sure it will be extended.
I'll be okay as long as the liquor stores stay open. Wheeee!!!
Alcohol kills viruses, right?
As the story goes, the citizens of the Norfolk area resented the Navy residents. I have seen pictures of signs saying "Dogs and Sailors keep off the grass." Certainly while i was stationed thrre, they served tourists first, locals second, military last. Out of season, we were more popular, but i recall the mayor telling tge graduating class at the police academy, their job was to protect the tourist dollar from drunks and sailors.Realistically, there will be no return to what was "normal" a few months ago. In a year there will be a return to relative economic and social stability but it will bear limited resemblance to what was.