I saw the image below in my news feed this morning and it made me pause. This is truly what life for many of us looks like right now. It is definitely they way my teaching and learning experience is going. I work at my computer, participate in virtual meetings, collaborate one-to-one with teachers virtually to do some troubleshooting or planning or lesson creating, visit with my extended family virtually, and check in with my friends that way as well.
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Ever the ELA teacher, I immediately thought about how it would make a great writing prompt for my students! I could ask them to identify which person represented them most, or of who does one of the images remind you most, or give three people a name and describe what they do each day, or describe the facial expression/features that you envision on one of these people, or so many other out-of-the-box ideas for students to pause, think, imagine, and write.
Since I have made it a goal to create most of my own graphics for projects I create this year, I also took a moment to think about how I would create something similar and the time it might take to create such a large, in-depth graphic.
I also sent a challenge to one of my grands who is learning remote this week due to quarantining and being in contact with a fellow student who tested COVID positive. I would love to have seen her face when I challenged her! Unlike the folks pictured, I'm sure her eyes would be LARGE!
Sometimes it is off-the-wall sorts of things that make the best lessons. I think this is one of those things that could make a good lesson. I also think we have lots of people who are scrambling to come up with good virtual lessons using off-the-wall ideas like this that are tied to their own curriculum. I wonder what other folks have paused in their scroll to think about ways to use something they see in a lesson?
