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Using Technology to Increase Engagement and AgencyUsing technology to increase engagement in order to promote student agency to foster academic growth.
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In mid-March 2020, a group of teachers in a medium sized middle school in northern California, sat together to create two weeks worth of "just in case" lesson plans for their students that they had just seen the day before. They laughed, joked, talked candidly about life, their students and the job they loved. They did not realize that they had seen their students faces in person for the final time or that this would be the last time that their little group would be all together for the last time for more than a year. They did not realize that their jobs and lives would be changed forever that Friday the 13th.
School districts around the world happened upon uncharted territory in March of 2020 when a global pandemic took them by storm. In the United States, March 2020 became the witching hour, schools across the country closed and shifted to online learning to help provide students with a continuum of academia. Once the myriad of technological inequities was met and teachers were able to find a semblance of order and pedagogy, it became apparent that the current structure of online learning posed a threat to students' success in the academic arena, in particular, students with learning disabilities, who had economic insecurity, food insecurity, were second language learners, and families who counted on the school systems to provide a reliable structure and routine for their children. This study will explore the realities and outcomes for those students at one northern California middle school.
School districts around the world happened upon uncharted territory in March of 2020 when a global pandemic took them by storm. In the United States, March 2020 became the witching hour, schools across the country closed and shifted to online learning to help provide students with a continuum of academia. Once the myriad of technological inequities was met and teachers were able to find a semblance of order and pedagogy, it became apparent that the current structure of online learning posed a threat to students' success in the academic arena, in particular, students with learning disabilities, who had economic insecurity, food insecurity, were second language learners, and families who counted on the school systems to provide a reliable structure and routine for their children. This study will explore the realities and outcomes for those students at one northern California middle school.
What the Research Says So Far...Below are early findings in my research. I plan to continue this research for approximately 3 years.
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