Part-5 Catch It Early to Support More Engaging Screenagers?

Part-5 Catch It Early to Support More Engaging Screenagers?

In digital marketing it’s only the clicks you get that you care about.

In learning it’s all the kids you teach that you care about.

I’ve been told by teachers that they don’t have time to be checking and monitoring learning in the classroom.

These are the same teachers who are spending so much time fixing the problems when learners start falling behind.

In project management they have this saying, “To solve any problem more easily, catch it early.”

If these teachers had been using Google Forms as eWorkbooks from the beginning they would have known after the first hour or week of class which students were lagging a little bit behind and they would have learning Analytics to support this.

As soon as they see a lagging student, they can right away adjust the teaching or change the student in-class groupings so that those lagging students can be supported by other students who could give them support. (optimal engagement)

I see that it’s so easy to just count out lagging students who want to do more because as a teacher we’re, “too busy,” but aren’t we too busy doing it the old way? (junk engagement) 

One day I was talking to my library in getting my hour of “library therapy” (I do that every week whether I need it or not) and as we were talking about getting everyone to use tools to make class interactive. (optimal engagement)

I told my librarian friend that I’m not a technology person and I can use them and her response was, “You can use them because you’re willing to try,” that is, take the risks.

DrWarren’s eWorkbook (Google Form) Online Engaging Screenagers workshop rehearsal

I thought a lot about that and we teach students to take risks in their learning that yet not many teachers like to risk to learn new ways to support their students.

So what do you call a person who says to do one thing and yet does something else?

I can see two reasons teachers don’t like to take risks.

1) They don’t know what they’re doing and don’t want to be running in the wrong direction.

2) They want to keep doing well as it’s comfortable and they know that they can succeed with the new.

As Malcolm Gladwell wrote, when we get a critical mass who will risk, they can start that change.

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By using Google Forms as eWorkbooks, we are dong as Stephen Covey says, “Seek first to understand and then be understood.”

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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could support Engaging Screenagers to learn with the tools they like to use?

How can we get educators to embrace risk and change the same way they’re trying to have their students embrace risk and change?

Won’t students be the ones to suffer the most long-term because their teachers didn’t risk to make learning interactive?

Risk to do the right thing all of us will benefit

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All the Best, Warren

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