From Emily Matchar in the Smithsonian Magazine:
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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.
14 Schools Were Planned; Only 4 Opened
From Annabelle Timsit at Quartz:
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I’m More Worried About the Fraying US-China Relationship than Corona Virus
I’m just an educator who likes the puzzle of how to teach better.
I became interested in Chinese schools in 2018, invited to see a few schools there. Of course I was aware of diplomatic tensions between the USA and China. Harvard’s grand scholar of international relations, Graham Allison, had published his book just a year prior, the Thucydides Trap:
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40x Increase for this Chinese Online Provider
I had breakfast with Phyllis from ClassIn a few months ago. I bet she never expected this:
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), activity on ClassIn multiplied an incredible 40 times to record 1.6 million Daily Active Users (DAU) on February 4-5, marking a critical turning point in the development of online education in China.
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Via the wonderful Joanne Jacobs, I discovered this interview with Martha Franks, who has a new book about teaching in China.
It’s called: Books Without Borders: Homer, Aeschylus, Galileo, Melville and Madison Go to China.
The interview is conducted by “Lois Lane.”
Q: What sorts of ancient Western concepts did the Chinese students relate to, and which were mystifying to them?
Screen Time: Three C’s
Screen Time remains a big parent problem in China and USA.
This from EdSurge.
It’s an interview with Lisa Guernsey, director of the teaching, learning and tech program at New America, a nonpartisan think tank.
She even wrote a book that’s called “Screen Time” and a more recent one called “Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens.”
Q: Have you heard of these videos that have gone viral on YouTube for years now where parents are taking away the kids’ XBox or phone and like smashing it with a sledgehammer or throwing them out the window? What do you make of these?
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Coronavirus Home School
From the WSJ:
In Hong Kong, the home of schools that are the envy of high-achieving and aspirational parents everywhere, education is making a huge shift.
To the dining room.
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Coronavirus May Turbocharge China’s Online Learning
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.
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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.
