Tag: #pandemic

There Is So Much We Don’t Know

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on There Is So Much We Don’t Know#COVID19, #covid19Canada, #pandemic, #safeseptember

This September, we need to keep schools safe for children and staff. This is a particularly complex challenge, because we still know very little about the virus causing the pandemic. According to Siddhartha Mukherjee, this SARS-CoV-2 virus became a pandemic because of some very specific characteristics: It is completely new to humans, so we are […]

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Don’t Waste a Good Crisis

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Don’t Waste a Good Crisis#learning, #onlinelearning, #pandemic, #silverliningforlearning, #the100dayproject

I’ll admit, my first response to closing school for 1.5 billion children worldwide was to think about the opportunity to finally shift our thinking about school to a vision for 2020 and beyond. I was excited to see so many thought leaders in education also trying to figure out how to do this. Then there […]

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“… If You Let Them, And If They Want To.”

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on “… If You Let Them, And If They Want To.”#onlinelearning, #pandemic, #silverliningforlearning, #sugatamitra, #the100dayproject, #yongzhoa

“Children in groups, can actually learn almost anything by themselves, using the internet, if you let them, and if they want to.” Sugata Mitra – #silverliningforlearning Episode 2 Teaching through a pandemic gives us the opportunity to rethink our role in student learning. Can we resist our first instinct to grab tightly to what we […]

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From a Marching Band to a Jazz Band

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on From a Marching Band to a Jazz Band#pandemic, #remotelearning, #the100dayproject, change, eLearning

How do we plan for exceptional distance learning while we are doing it? We have two things going on here. Schools are out, everyone is at home, and we are scrambling to meet the needs of our students right now, while everyone copes with a health crisis and an economic crisis (The Urgency) At the […]

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Resources for Learning Outside of School

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Resources for Learning Outside of School#pandemic

Now that so many schools are closing globally, generous educators are madly sharing links to excellent resources for children not able to attend school. The purpose of this post is to collect some of those resources in one place. Please contribute to the document using this form. Your contribution will take about 5 minutes to […]

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Finding Opportunity in Crisis: Five Ways the Pandemic Can Make Public Education Better

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Finding Opportunity in Crisis: Five Ways the Pandemic Can Make Public Education Better#coronavirus, #COVID19, #covid19Canada, #hgse, #ossemooc, #pandemic, #UniversalDesign, UDL

There is no doubt that March 14, 2020 has all of us in a world that is very different from the one we anticipated. The escalation of the national and provincial responses, in a time when everyone has a voice online and facts don’t always rise to the top, creates challenges we have yet to […]

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