Remote Learning on Labor Day

 There's a college feel to this kind of teaching. The kids can come to class or not. They can pay attention or not. In an actual classroom, I would work to keep all kids on task because attitude is contagious. In remote learning, if you're asleep, your blank screen looks the same as the kids who is working but doesn't want to show his bedhead.

Let's think and talk about Comfort and Discomfort and their relationship to Learning.

Let's talk about Reality and how it is Socially Constructed.

 Let's talk about Ageism and how the students needed the assignment to be called "Adult Show and Tell" because they hate to be treated like children. Let's talk about ageism and how young people are leading the way in the new Civil Rights movement but there is resistance to them. Let's talk about ageism and how internalized the divisions between the ages are -- especially with the Boomer, Millenial, Gen X, etc. labels. Let's talk about Ageism and the contempt people have for children.

Let's talk. 

Even when I try to advise them about procrastination and tell them I used to do my homework on the busride to school and now that I'm 50 I don't procrastinate anymore, the "advice" is ridiculous. What do you need to be doing developmentally and adaptively and evolutionarily when you're 15? SOCIALIZING and EATING and SLEEPING --growing into a healthy passer of genes, right? It just seems a fringe benefit that your brain is so brilliant as well during this age, and capable of soaking up so much information and deciding on what you are and (SING IT, MEAN GIRLS!) "Where, where you belong? Where do you belong?"