2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: The DTA can encourage good time-management habits

The DTA can encourage 
good time-management habits

Is time management a reasonable learning objective for school?  If so, how would a school teach it?  Here are some suggestions. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

Thinking 

about time management

• I don't mean tell the students about good time management.
• And then check that they remember what you told them.
• Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
• Knowledge does not make habits.  Practice makes habits.
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) can ask for and  monitor practice.
• Evaluated practice can be a class requirement.
• Or it could be a rewarded action (rewards provided by teacher or parent.)
• Someday...we should rework the calendar

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The key elements of time management

• Todo lists
• Schedule
• Reminders (active calendar)
• Concrete progress checks. 

Todo, schedule, reminders

• Make them class assignments.  
• To be done in forms provided by the DTA.
• The teacher knows what the items should be.  
• The DTA can track whether the todo list is done 
• And can give a preliminary match with the teacher's list
• Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
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• The DTA can alert the student, parents, and teacher about the due date.
• The DTA can propose a schedule, probably just by the day (or longer time).
• Some of the times would be fixed: meetings with teachers or student groups.
• The other times might be revised and detailed to hourly by the student and parents.
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• The DTA can similarly send reminders and track progress. 
• In the digital campus framework, the student would be taking several courses.
• The DTA would create a combined schedule for each student.
• The DTA could offer a calendar with all times scheduled if the parent wants that.
• That  calendar could include recommendations about play time.
• (Note that the digital campus could cut commuting time to little or nothing.)

Progress checks

• If work is done online, the DTA can monitor some kinds progress.  
• It at least knows when a step is due and when the product is delivered.
• In some stages of project-based learning, the DTA may be able to give preliminary evaluation and feedback.
• In test-based learning, the DTA can give and score objective tests.  
• It can give feedback on the score and might give advice on study practices.
• It can also award digital badges to mark progress and display progress charts if desired. 
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