1/ Have you ever been in a store -- at the cash -- and then the phone rings and the cashier turns their attention to the caller? Depending on the day, it might challenge your patience OR it you might feel like walking out. Well, that's the comparison for #HybridLearning.

2/Sometimes it feels a little like being a late show host.
There's an audience at home and an audience in person. I often have to inform the at home students that "they're laughing here." Or I let the at school bunch that the at home students are sending applause emojis.

3/But late night hosts have crews and equipment. On of the needs of a good hybrid classroom (LOL good hybrid classroom) is at least 2 more monitors. My "best" lessons required one computer to project my screen to the screen at the front of the room. Everyone could see the at

4/home students, but still the at home students couldn't see much of the classroom - only what I could project to them from my tiny chromebook camera that is not designed for broadcasting a setting like that. I was lucky that my classroom had an older monitor "leftover" from a

5/tech overhaul or I couldn't even have done that. This set up did not solve the audio issue. The students in class can't effectively reply to the students at home if they are trying to hold a discussion. The tiny chromebook mic is not designed to pick up their voices from --

6/ even the second row. That means that had to repeat every comment or question from the at school student to the at home students. Sometimes teachers have to reiterate questions, BUT constantly repeating students comments and questions is not actually a "Best Practice." It's

7/ annoying for the student who are speaking and it undermines their agency in a discussion. Back to the store analogy. If you really need the item, you don't walk out when the cashier answers the phone, but it ruins the rapport the cashier may have established with you.

8/Now imagine that the cashier is expected to answer multiple phones while still serving multiple clients along with you at the cash. To promote #HybridLearning is to misunderstand what really happens in a classroom. As much as teacher need to have expertise wrt to content

9/they also need to build a community in the classroom, to develop a trusting atmosphere for the students, to achieve some degree of rapport with their students. Of course, our work is to convey content and then measure the levels at which students have mastered that content

10/ but teaching is not merely conveying content. To promote #HybridLearning is fail to understand that we teach students, not material. But what would we expect from an MoE who didn't even know what an IEP was? #HybridLearning can be a strategy in an emergency

11/ -- like the one we are facing now, but it cannot be considered a Best Practice. I can only conclude that ppl promoting #HybridLearning do not care about students, Best Practices...or education at all.

12/ I was typing this too fast and I made some typos - I should be ashamed -- but I am not because I don't have much time to struggle for high quality public education. Too busy prepping and teaching.

13/ This is a pretty good graphic, but the camera is way better in the drawing. My "camera" is just the little one on my chromebook.