{"id":254,"date":"2014-02-09T15:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=254"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:41:47","slug":"deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2014\/02\/09\/deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Learning Mooc: Internships and students in the adult world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the DLMooc, we are focusing on students in the adult world. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/timothyflanagan.blogspot.ca\/2014\/02\/whats-so-great-about-internships.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Flanagan<\/a>, I wasn&#8217;t completely convinced that this week had a huge connection to my world as a Middle School English teacher, and so I wasn&#8217;t entirely on top of my viewing and reading and posting this week. But I&#8217;ve come to reconsider my position, especially after watching this Lens into the Classroom protocol.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/eEEKXE5zryo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The High Tech High students begin their internships in the 11th Grade: a stage of learning when students are normally starting to really consider what they will study in university and what challenges their adult lives will take on. While I don&#8217;t think that students in Grade 7 should be so narrow in their vision to absolutely know what they will be when they &#8220;grow up&#8221;, I do know that around the ages of 12 and 13, students are most certainly starting to articulate what they passionate about and what broad disciplines they are really curious about.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc\">One High Tech High student said that internships are &#8220;a month to learn what you want&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Middle School answer to &#8220;students in the adult world&#8221; is through field work (this idea shows up in the protocol from one of the probing questions in regards to what is the difference between field work and internships).<\/p>\n<p>Could field work be the way that Middle School students get their feet <em>a little<\/em> wet in the adult world, solving real world problems, acting as a &#8220;think tank for community problems&#8221; as Emilo Torres suggested, and give students the chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essentialschools.org\/resources\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learn through their interests<\/a> to promote deep engagement?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if there are other Middle School teachers in the larger DLMooc group that are also grappling with how &#8220;internships&#8221; or the &#8220;adult world&#8221; fits into their own version of school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the DLMooc, we are focusing on students in the adult world. Like Tim Flanagan, I wasn&#8217;t completely convinced that this week had a huge connection to my world as a Middle School English teacher, and so I wasn&#8217;t entirely on top of my viewing and reading and posting this week. But I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2014\/02\/09\/deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deeper Learning Mooc: Internships and students in the adult world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}