Newsela Virtual Session for Newsela ELA, Newsela Social Studies, Newsela Science, Social Emotional Learning
- Shared screen with speaker view
Thomas Reddy
10:49
I can hear you.
Jarrod Denson
10:52
hi
Thomas Reddy
11:06
Thomas Reddy. Washington High School.
Justin Mwambu Silbaugh
11:41
Hello, Justin from Mission High School. Using Newsela in an 11/12 grade SDC English class where reading levels vary wildly
Thomas Reddy
12:18
I teach ELD US History, where reading levels in English vary wildly as well.
Justin Silbaugh
14:44
1
Thomas Reddy
15:00
3 or 4, but that was before the new Pro system this year.
Thomas Reddy
15:11
Yes
Thomas Reddy
16:46
Clever has never been introduced to high schools before. HS students haven’t used it.
Holly Diestler
17:07
Thanks for passing along!
Thomas Reddy
23:07
Can we suggest articles for Newsela to work their reading-level magic on?
Thomas Reddy
24:03
A wine decanter
Thomas Reddy
26:15
Plans for other languages?
Holly Diestler
27:46
We can pass that along to our content team. Is there a particular language that is being requested?
Thomas Reddy
30:42
Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic
Thomas Reddy
30:54
Languages of my students
Holly Diestler
30:56
Thank you!
Thomas Reddy
31:34
Chinese would be the biggest need
Justin Silbaugh
35:13
Not yet - very powerful tool
Thomas Reddy
35:20
Nothing about the site
Thomas Reddy
41:09
Wanted to find articles about school closures and cover-19.
Thomas Reddy
41:18
really?
Thomas Reddy
42:16
I was trying to find one that talked about the difficulties of distance learning
Thomas Reddy
43:59
I’m hoping to have a discussion with students about it and there are many articles about how difficult it’s been; for example there were articles this week on that in the NYTimes and LATImes.
Holly Diestler
45:53
We also have some great resources in the Social and Emotional Learning Collection
Holly Diestler
45:54
https://newsela.com/subject/other/340683/2000205507
Thomas Reddy
47:04
thx!
Holly Diestler
47:11
You bet! :)
Thomas Reddy
51:46
The annotation will only show up in that reading level, right?
Holly Diestler
52:51
Correct! Here’s a helpful article to relate back to with using annotations: https://learn.newsela.com/item/supportArticle/annotations#teacher-annotations
Thomas Reddy
59:06
All good
Justin Silbaugh
59:13
I feel like I need to just play with it now
Thomas Reddy
01:01:15
Can you change the question?
Thomas Reddy
01:01:35
The writing prompt, I mean.
Holly Diestler
01:02:03
A video link for later if you need it to change the Newsela write prompt: https://learn.newsela.com/item/video/2018-writing-video
Justin Silbaugh
01:02:34
the classes it is pulling up are not current. Where is Clever pulling these from?
Thomas Reddy
01:03:09
It pulls it from Synergy
Justin Silbaugh
01:03:27
Great, thanks
Justin Silbaugh
01:04:38
what is download data?
Justin Silbaugh
01:05:04
I have to leave at 2:58 for 3 pm call
Holly Diestler
01:05:23
Feel free to reach out to me if I can help at all! holly.diestler@newsela.com
Justin Silbaugh
01:05:52
Cool
Justin Silbaugh
01:06:21
and what is the Google Doc you are using to present with live translation?
Thomas Reddy
01:06:24
My 1st question about proposing articles
Holly Diestler
01:06:38
@Justin-you may need to archive old classes to see your current class list. Feel free to email me directly and we can figure it out!
Justin Silbaugh
01:06:46
YES!
Thomas Reddy
01:06:50
I will be using that!
Justin Silbaugh
01:06:56
Very accurate
Justin Silbaugh
01:07:17
THANKS FOR THE SESSION!
Thomas Reddy
01:07:45
I want this NY Times article that has student voices in LA and NY about how distance learning isn’t working for them!
Thomas Reddy
01:07:52
It’s from Tuesday
Holly Diestler
01:08:12
Hey Thomas! Feel free to share the link and we can share with our content team.
Thomas Reddy
01:08:33
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/coronavirus-schools-attendance-absent.html
Thomas Reddy
01:08:38
No all good!
Holly Diestler
01:08:40
Thank you!