{"id":39963,"date":"2013-05-15T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=39963"},"modified":"2013-05-15T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:20:05","slug":"michigan-district-fires-all-teachers-closes-every-school-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/05\/15\/michigan-district-fires-all-teachers-closes-every-school-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan district fires all teachers, closes every school [Parker]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2013\/05\/13\/michigan-school-district-fires-teachers-closes-schools?cmpid=tpedu-eml-2013-5-14-michigan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michigan district fires all teachers, closes every school<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from takepart.com by Suzi Parker<br \/>\n<em>A funding crisis caused the Buena Vista School District to close its schools for the rest of the year\u2014and perhaps permanently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is not right.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If the State of Michigan can&#8217;t resolve this&#8230;<br \/>\nI hope that a corporation or two &#8212; or a major philanthropist or two &#8212; steps in here to insure that all these students have Internet access. Then provide\/allow these students to go online.\u00a0 <strong>Let these students take any class that they want to &#8212; and help them enjoy learning as much as possible.<\/strong> They will learn things along the way &#8212; without even knowing that they are learning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html\" target=\"_blank\">along the lines of what Sugata Mitra has been saying<\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Are there issues with this idea? You bet. I can think of several off the top of my head:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Parents out at work, kids at home&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Online learning works best with disciplined students&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The students may take courses that are not STEM-related<br \/>\n<em>(However, if they are interested in another discipline or topic, these things could be brought into their learning along the way.)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The students may not take courses related to the Common Core standards<br \/>\n<em>(However, this is not a big concern for me; as pounding everyone into a similar &#8220;mold&#8221; goes against the reality that each of us is different.\u00a0 We each have different gifts, skills, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, passions, interests, and preferences.)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But we&#8217;ve let these kids down &#8212; and make no mistake, we will all pay the price for this type of thing &#8212; one way or another. We need to help these kids discover the joy of learning&#8230;before it&#8217;s too late.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan district fires all teachers, closes every school &#8212; from takepart.com by Suzi Parker A funding crisis caused the Buena Vista School District to close its schools for the rest of the year\u2014and perhaps permanently. &nbsp; From DSC: This is not right. If the State of Michigan can&#8217;t resolve this&#8230; I hope that a corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,141,46,7,510,423,385,62,480,321],"tags":[52,606,737,4,12,569,802,771,754,601,792,728],"class_list":["post-39963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-love-of-learning","category-michigan","category-online-learning","category-society","category-united-states","tag-budgetary","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-education","tag-k-12","tag-keeping-students-engaged","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-learning-from-the-living-class-room","tag-love-of-learning","tag-michigan","tag-online-learning","tag-society","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39963"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39968,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963\/revisions\/39968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}