The first official E-Learning day for students
March 3, 2020
Mazie Maluka
THE MIRROR
On Feb. 25 Stevens Point Area Senior High (SPASH) sent out an email reminder to students about each student’s responsibilities on March 3 according to their grade.
With the ACT + Writing testing (ACT) for juniors, many have begun to studying and stressing over the testing already. The sophomores have an all-day trip planned for Mid-State Technical College (MSTC) and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP).
Only sophomores and juniors have to report to the SPASH building. In past years this was usually an off-day for seniors, but this year the seniors will be having an E-Learning day so the school can count this as an official school day.
In the email it was explained that “All seniors are required to login to Schoology anytime on Tuesday, March 3, 2020…” for attendance purposes. Schoology will verify that students are electronically attending class.
The SPASH district has been incorporating more electronic elements into the classroom for years now. This is the newest way that SPASH is modifying how students are taught to keep up with technological advancements.
This accessible means of communication makes collaborating and working with teachers easy for students to work outside of the classroom with access to all the tools they have available when they are in the building.
Each teacher will post their own assignment specific to their class. Most assignments are supposed to take 20 minutes on average for a student to complete. Teachers usually post an assignment that ties into the class material that students are currently studying or are using this as an opportunity to introduce new material.
McKenna Coyle • Mar 27, 2020 at 6:18 PM
This was a good read, it was very informational and neatly formatted. With covid-19 happening, I am happy that E-learning was brought up just in time.
Larson Lewis • Mar 27, 2020 at 3:46 PM
I thought this was a very detailed and well-written article that let people know what E-learning is. I think E-learning is very useful especial with the situation we are in right now.
Kaitlyn Flanagan • Mar 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM
This was well written did a great job at explaining. Personally I feel like E learning is good to an extent.. Yes it’s convenient to help when we have a snow day or something like that but having E learning long term isn’t good in my opinion because like with math, I feel like it is harder to learn the material.. I mean you have to do what you have to do but it is what it is..
Noah Viegut • Mar 27, 2020 at 11:54 AM
I am glad that they have the E learning because at the end of this Corona Break it might be next school year already. This article did a good job explaining the E Learning days to anyone who hasn’t had to do them yet.
Kenny Schultz • Mar 27, 2020 at 9:43 AM
This article was very strongly written. I personally believe that the E-learning days are a great substitute for school when we can’t attend. But I do believe that the way they made it so only seniors had to log on was not fair.
Erich Vanblargan • Mar 12, 2020 at 1:53 PM
I feel that the E-learning day was kind of bias against seniors as we were the only ones who had to do anything close to out academic courses on what is traditionally a seniors day off while sophomores just had to do a field trip and had no homework. The juniors were understandable because they were the brave souls taking the ACT test. The article was brief and straight to the point and was written in such a manor that it is a quick read.