Thread by @lissijean

The fall is going to be so rough for US teachers due to a complete lack understanding of technology by superintendents and how terrible some educational platforms are. /1

My boufriend’s mom is a 2nd grade teacher. Last night she told me her school district decided that everyone is moving to Canvas. Elementary, middle, and high school. /2

Now I use Canvas at HBS. It’s SO not user friendly.

His mom was telling me they had just got everything set up on Google Classroom for their elementary school in the spring and this was completely sprung on them because the school district wanted to “consolidate”. /2

How did they choose to consolidate? They figured out what the high school needed and decided every other school would use it too. No research. No talking to teachers or parents. /3

So the teachers, who btw we’re paying nothing in this country, have to re-learn how to completely do their job.

They sent them to a training for Canvas that started with “well we don’t have time for a full training so we’re just going to move along.” /4

The teachers are mostly older too in this public school in PA, and are not the best with tech. They don’t need to be, second grade isn’t all about tech.

So now they’re panicking about learning a completely new software and spending their whole summer doing that. /5

And all you parents out there of elementary kids, guess what. Now you have to learn too!

What an epic failure all around. /6

The need for good educational software is now more important than ever, but I feel like it won’t even matter if our school districts don’t understand how to buy technology. /7