Bridging Digital and Carbon Technology
Lately I have been discussing how some of our students are struggling with managing all of the digital content in their school day. We have Moodle and FirstClass for all students and teachers. These systems are very powerful and for the most part work quite well for our learning community. As I went to my “mailbox”, it hit me that we use a dual communication system. This has to have a huge impact on efficiency and effectiveness.
I have FirstClass for all sorts of digital communication. Even my voice mail is delivered to my Inbox. I could work with this system quite nicely as I know where to look for new items and can in fact find items from last year in my mailbox if needed.
But once a day I must travel back in time to my other Inbox where I am given a carbon based product that somehow I must merge into my digital system or try to maintain two systems. I now have a Fujitsu Scan Snap on my desk to bridge this divide. How much time is lost by me doing this conversion and maintainence of a dual system of communication?
Below are two images of what students must master along with Moodle and FirstClass.
Assignment Notebook: Write down all homework (also posted on Moodle with an automatic message in FirstClass if configured to)
7 Rotational Schedule for our need to make more time out of the day/week
How do our students also maintain dual communication systems? When will we drop the one and settle on only one system? What does it take for real change to happen?
