DfE set up online school

[noblegiraffe]

Anyone seen this? I saw this screenshot on twitter but haven’t been able to find the actual story.

And of course, some of the option subjects will get nothing from this.

Media doesn’t need anything, piggy, because it already has Netflix

I am not a media teacher. How very dare you

Thanks noble, put myself on the email list.

I’m hoping for some decent KS2 Science, as I am struggling to work out how to do that remotely. Apparently Explorify are going to come up with some resources, but not available until ‘next term’.

Something Netflixy though, Piggy?

The plan for maths is here.

Nooe, something far too heavily copyrighted for Netflix!

I didn’t realise they did a GCSE in Disney+!

Saw an interesting thread on Twitter written by a teacher who'd been asked to contribute to the BBC thing. He was being expected to film 9 x 20 minute videos (IIRC) for which they needed him to travel from Birmingham to Manchester for 3 x "half days" of filming - their definition of half day was 2pm - 7pm. The filming is recent - since lockdown/no essential travel. Obviously they promised appropriate social distancing. He was told that he would be sent scripts but they only sent him 4 mins worth. The pay for the whole thing was £300. He turned it down in the end.

Oh , how wounding. Are you a different user in disguise noble??

Saw an interesting thread on Twitter written by a teacher who'd been asked to contribute to the BBC thing. He was being expected to film 9 x 20 minute videos (IIRC) for which they needed him to travel from Birmingham to Manchester for 3 x "half days" of filming - their definition of half day was 2pm - 7pm. The filming is recent - since lockdown/no essential travel. Obviously they promised appropriate social distancing. He was told that he would be sent scripts but they only sent him 4 mins worth. The pay for the whole thing was £300. He turned it down in the end.

Why doesn’t that surprise me

I won't be signing my children up for this online school unless the teachers at their school can wholeheartedly recommend it - they are at an excellent school with dedicated teachers and it can't be bettered IMO.

YOU HEARD ABOUT IT HERE FIRST!

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-williamson-backs-national-online-academy

Overall, the academy will provide over 180 lessons a week, the equivalent of three hours a day for primary school pupils and four hours a day for secondary school students.

The subjects covered will be:

English
Maths
Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics at secondary level)
History
Geography
Modern Foreign Languages
Religious Education
Art

Starting Monday.

Teacher here, I saw an advert for this (think it was in my school emails) looking for 'the nation's best teachers' to record short lessons in their subject for a national series of government provided video lessons. It was about 3 weeks ago and I ignored it as I'm simply not the best teacher in my subject!

Thanks noble!

From their FB page:

It’s not the BBC stuff, it’s something else.

I can't find it anywhere online? Just news articles about it. Does anyone know the name of the site? Or is it just for the MATs that made it?

Schoolsweek article here: schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-teachers-join-forces-to-create-online-curriculum-hub/

🤷🏻‍♀️ they are launching it on Monday. How is that useful to anyone. Meh! I've already planned the next 5 weeks.

I don't think the site is live. Some articles say 'launching Monday' some say 'launching next week'.

My guess is that this will be free during the lockdown and latterly very, very expensive- aimed at EOTAS packages paid for by LAs.

Paul Whiteman of the NAHT is already out there saying this should just be for lockdown. I think he foresees thousands of classrooms with HLTAs pressing play...

www.gov.uk/government/news/new-major-package-to-support-online-learning

This worries me greatly - why do we need individual teachers if kids can be plonked in front of national official online lessons with a warm body in the corner at minimum wage to keep an eye on them? Thin end of the wedge.

And the pp who mentioned nationally approved resources? Not all children need the same worksheet, not all teachers teach in the same style and being forced to use a resource that doesn’t fit that style just doesn’t work.

To be clearer, I’m worried about the implications for the future rather than in the current crisis.