Why not put school lessons on television?

[spottedelk]

In Brazil, where a lot of families don't have wifi or don't have computers, at least one of the regional governments has set up a new TV channel and is using it to broadcast school lessons. The children have 2 opportunities a day to watch the lessons for their age group. Almost every family has a television set, even in a country which has very high levels of inequality.
I understand that different schools teach differently, that they don't do work in the same order, etc, but for the new school year surely this would solve a lot of problems? They just need to put together a small team of excellent teachers, with some technical support, and they can go a long way to solving the problems that so many of our children are having. My child will be in an exam year next year and will only get 2 days of school a week. So far, she's had no live or videoed teaching, just written homework. This would help her and others in her position so much.

[PineappleUpsideDownCake]

And black white both BBC and oak academy have covered gcse level material! So you can have hours eachbday of learning provision.

[PineappleUpsideDownCake]

Theres been amazing joined up work available. Ive been really impressed.

You could cover every thing with oak academy if you chose.4ish lessons a day including art (my daughter did lessons in shading and persepctive) .

Or if you dollow bbc bitesize they have daily lessons available online too.

You could choose either and have a decent curriculum.

I think teachers are aware that not ine size fits all and are aware of differing levels of engagement of parents/children.

I'm glad my children dont have to sit at a screen for lessons 4 hours a day like some children.

Locally schools know what they have already taught and what is coming next, so their privison may vary and be more sepcific.

But if you havent got much from school then folloing oak or bbc really is incredibly provison.

[Cherrypi]

Ah thank you @undertheduvet

[BlackWhitePurple]

I've been surprised from the beginning that there's no joined-up approach to providing lessons. For primary school it shouldn't be too tricky - a bit of online teaching (just waive the licence requirement for the duration of the pandemic or something), supplementary worksheets (maybe make them available to collect at the Post Office or something for those who can't do them online), and online areas for further learning.

Provide teacher resources as well, and a really good online service for submitting/marking work (again, allow parents to post stuff back to school if they don't have Internet).

It would be easy enough to cover primary English and Maths, and some science, history and geography. PE, art, music etc is probably trickier, but they could do Joe Wicks-style PE, for instance.

Harder for secondary because there's quite a bit of variation in the curriculum across exam boards, but they could cover the stuff that's common to most (and teachers can always guide students to the videos they need, or they can just allow them to learn extra stuff).

After the pandemic, make it accessible for children who can't attend school, and charge people who just want to use it as extra learning, as a way to recoup some of the costs.

[undertheduvet]

Bitesize daily is back next week. They are currently filming new episodes had a panic when I couldnt find any yesterday as they have been really useful

[PineappleUpsideDownCake]

There are daily lessons online for bitsize too. Really well put together. So lessons Ive just looked at on iron age and romans each have a variety of little clips, and some exercises to do. Some link to twinkl or pearsons and the clips are varied too.

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

Weeks 1-5 were Easter to Half Term. I haven't been able to find a new TV programme after half term.

[Cherrypi]

What bitesize week are we on? I'm confused.

[milveycrohn]

@schoolsoutforcovid.
In the UK you need a TV License to watch or record Live TV, whether it is the BBC, ITV or Channel 4, channel 5 or any SKY Channels.
In the past, one could get around this by not having a TV, and watching past BBC programs on BBC iPlayer via the Internet, but you now need a License to watch the BBC iPlayer as well.
Without a License, you can watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube, and the other catchup Programs, such as ITV Player, and Channel 4 catchup, as long as it is NOT live TV.

However, I have learnt something from this thread, and that is that the iPlayer (and Bitesize) is available on TV, via the red button, so you can watch Bitesize programs without using a computer.
I immediately tried this out after reading it in an earlier post.

[Snagscardies]

Thanks, with us this is still reliant on crappy rural internet. Will look to see if a set top box will work.

[ToothFairyNemesis]

@Snagscardies between 9-11am press the red button on a bbc channel.

[DominaShantotto]

@Snagscardies need to have either a smart TV or some form of a set top box that can put BBC iPlayer onto the TV (I know the "apps" part of our SkyQ can do it) - go into iPlayer (we like the "kids" version that iPlayer now has) and look for "bitesize daily" and then the age group you want - there's 5-7 7-9 and so on.

Also @Juanmorebeer

Like I said before they are very very "bitty" and the format of the show part of things doesn't really work well in some areas - I've not used the curriculum work to go alongside to be fair - I'm fairly confident planning my own stuff (the teaching career came in useful for once) for the child for whom school doesn't supply much in the way of work at all and the other kid's school has an online learning platform setup the teachers can set modules for them to do - but the kids tend to watch the TV show a bit on occasions (although they prefer Art Ninja and Operation Ouch - to be honest - I think Operation Ouch is bloody superb!)

[Snagscardies]

How do you get bite-sized on the TV? Please @ me so I see your reply as we can only access it through our crappy rural internet.

[spottedelk]

I'd expect the power points to be the bare bones of a lesson, at most. You'd probably learn more from a textbook, which is not designed to be brief notes.

[Mistressiggi]

OP, PowerPoints and worksheets form a big part of lessons when they are in school as well! Other than practical classes, what do you think teachers do? What is missing is discussion, group work, teacher talk. But there's no escape from the PowerPoints!

[spottedelk]

I read on another thread that the Scottish government was talking about 2 days for half the class, then on Wednesday schools would shut for cleaning (!!), then 2 days for the other half of the class. So I'm guessing more powerpoints and worksheets for 3 days a week. They're also talking about maybe not having any exams next year. A massive effect on my DC's year (S5), who have already missed their S4 national exams.

[StoorieHoose]

@spottedelk where did you hear that Scottish schools would be only in for 2 days?

[StoorieHoose]

If this was to happen then hopefully they will run all the time and not disappear off air when it's English half term but Scottish schools are still on

[itsgettingweird]

Brilliant idea!

Anyone remember the old Open university lectures in BBC! Back in the day we had the clown still as well!

What would be great as well as they could chose a channel which has advertising to fund it and then people won't need a tv license.

Would have been much cheaper as well to provide tv to families which can be used by all than laptops and dongles.

[IcedPurple]

You don't need a licence to watch tv. You need one for bbc and iPlayer but not the other channels

No. If you have a TV at all, you must pay the licence. Even if you never watch BBC.

[Iggi999]

Juan can you record your telly? Look at the planner for tomorrow, in the morning there should be Bitesize daily lessons for primary and secondary. I just set mine to record every day.

[Juanmorebeer]

@sandiecheeks I have searched and nothing comes up for bitesize at all?

[AdoptedBumpkin]

Not a bad idea. I wonder if this has been considered?

[schoolsoutforcovid]

@milveycrohn that's not true. You don't need a licence to watch tv. You need one for bbc and iPlayer but not the other channels

[SandieCheeks]

Just search for Bitesize on iplayer - there's a little 20 minute programme for each year group each day. I wouldn't really call it a lesson as such though.