{"id":14062,"date":"2021-01-10T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=14062"},"modified":"2021-01-10T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:19:27","slug":"back-to-the-digital-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/back-to-the-digital-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the digital classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From tomorrow I&#8217;ll be back in the digital classroom. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m very happy about it. For all my love of technology I much prefer the real classroom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reviewing my<a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/tag\/lockdown-learning-notes\/\"> previous lockdown experience,<\/a>\u00a0I continue to find reading my old blog posts useful. \u00a0Also interesting to see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2020\/01\/10\/first-week-highlights-2020\/\">what happened in the first week of term last session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I felt I spent very little time learning new stuff or seeing what other people were doing. As I recall my head was down. I believed that I cut out social media pretty much. I just had a look at my 2020 twitter stats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-tweets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/back-to-the-digital-classroom\/2020-tweets\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-tweets.png\" data-orig-size=\"327,97\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2020-tweets\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-tweets.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-tweets.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14063\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-tweets.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And was surprised to see I was wrong about that.<\/p>\n<p>It feel like there is a lot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-55564578\">more pressure on this time round<\/a>. I think, as teachers, we put enough pressure on ourselves, not sure the idea of teachers, schools and LAs having to produce data to justify themselves is a great idea. I<a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/tag\/lockdown-learning-notes\/\"> gathered my own last time<\/a>, and <del>held myself to account\u00a0<\/del> blogged about it, that felt tough enough.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope that whoever tries to hold us to account understands the situation, the amount of prep needed to teach online, whether preparing for a live lesson or creating asynchronous ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From tomorrow I&#8217;ll be back in the digital classroom. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m very happy about it. For all my love of technology I much prefer the real classroom. 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