From SCMP:
Xu and many others have already begun learning full time again – only from home – in what may become the largest online teaching trial the country has seen.
Continue reading “Coronavirus May Turbocharge China’s Online Learning”
Author: Mike G
Hi. I work in K-12 education....schoolteacher training. Lots of published research says that older teachers don't improve much.
Well, I'm "older." Just turned 50. In 2020, I'm trying something new (improving at golf) to learn about adult performance change. By experiencing frustration, and experiencing the coaching techniques, practice techniques, and feedback tools in the golf sector, maybe I can come up with new ideas for K-12 teacher improvement, particularly older ones more set in their ways.
China v. US: Privacy Norms For Schools
A few months ago I wondered:
Are China and USA are very culturally different (when it comes to privacy around tech), or if they’re just a few years ahead of us in accepting things?
Maybe it’s the latter.
A US school district just deployed facial recognition software. Continue reading “China v. US: Privacy Norms For Schools”
Coronavirus: “I wouldn’t see my wife again until I picked up her ashes 11 days later.”
From Ming Que at Sixth Tone:
Part 2
My wife and I moved to Huanggang from nearby Qichun County about six months ago. We invested 30,000 yuan and opened a store that sold windows and doors with a few other people. We wanted to change our lives; we never thought something like this would happen.
Coronavirus forcing colleges with high enrollment from China into delicate balancing act
From Elisabeth Buchwald at Marketwatch:
Universities are ramping up efforts to protect students, faculty and staff from the potentially deadly illness — especially schools that have large populations of students from China.
More international students come to the U.S. from China than from any other country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, there were more than 369,000 students from China studying at U.S. colleges, according to the Institute of International Education.
With large groups of people sharing living spaces, classrooms, libraries and dining halls, colleges face unique challenges in managing contagious illnesses.
“Universities are often the most global and we are often on the front lines of these situations,” said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, the associate vice provost for student health at the University of Southern California. The school has 6,626 students from China, the second-largest population of students from China in the U.S., according to the IIE.
Kids get the flu, worry it’s corona.
Philly School Has China Virus Panic
Front page of Philadelphia Inquirer, via Geordie:
1. Last week, 18 Chinese kids arrive to Penn Charter School. Exchange program. Two weeks.
2. One kid feels ill. He’s tested for coronavirus.
3. Panic. Other schools cancel sports events with Penn Charter. A bus driver wouldn’t drive Penn Charter students.
4. The school sends the other 17 Chinese kids back to China. The sick kid stays in isolation with a chaperone.
5. Sick kid tests negative for coronavirus.
“We regret that this program has been complicated, and now terminated, because of events that were beyond the control of the people who were excited for all the learning that this cultural exchange had promised,” head of school Darryl J. Ford wrote in an email to Penn Charter parents Monday night.
The latest Harvard-China scandal
From the Wall Street Journal:
The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department was arrested Tuesday on charges of allegedly lying to the U.S. about millions in Chinese funding he has received, in an escalation of U.S. efforts to counter what officials describe as Beijing’s aggressive recruitment at U.S. universities.
