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The Changing Sounds of Public Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Title (Dublin Core)

The Changing Sounds of Public Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Description (Dublin Core)

My wife and I are both public educators at Hamburg Area High School, a rural school district in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused our district to fluctuate between in-person and virtual instruction. During virtual days teachers have been encouraged to teach from home to mitigate the risk of exposure to the virus. I conduct my American History classes from the office in our home, while my wife, a music teacher, performs virtual music lessons with her students in our dining room. This shift to virtual teaching from home has caused my classroom, which is usually quite traditional, to sound much different. While I attempt to educate my students on the finer points of American History, the sounds of young (and often struggling) musicians fill the air. Meanwhile, my two dogs also interject into class as they battle over toys and pillows. The Covid-19 pandemic has not only moved the location of public education, but also changed the way that education sounds.

I recorded the following audio clip while my 3rd period AP US History class was studying primary source documents on the post-Civil War Reconstruction time-period (1865-1876) on Monday, January 11th.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 11, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

David Kline

Contributor (Dublin Core)

David Kline

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Audio Recording

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

sensory history
distance learning
Hamburg Area High School
Pennsylvania
teacher
sound

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sensory history
public education
virtual learning
high school
American history
music

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

1/12/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

1/20/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 12, 2021 by David Kline using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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