By COLlive reporter
Utilizing technology for the good was something the Rebbe encouraged.
A project of the Merkos Chinuch Office will be helping Chabad teachers and educators across North America to network and interact with each other on a regular basis.
The website chinuchworks.org will enable teachers to plan, execute and assess in ways not imaginable until recent years when computer became indispensable educational tools.
COLlive.com was told the website will be introduced next week at the women’s Kinus HaMechanchim education conference of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch at the DOLCE conference center in Norwalk, CT (to register click here) and later at the men’s conference.
Developed over the past 18 months by Rabbi Tzvi Greenberg and Rabbi Shmuel Schapiro, the site will carry teaching material, such as class work, homework, learning exercises, teaching tips, suggestions, recommended schedules.
A “Staff Room” will serve as a confidential forum in which teachers can discuss ideas, ask questions, and share general feedback.
While the core of the website will be geared for members of the educational system, there will be sections open to the public offering articles, lectures in audio and video, and other information pertaining to Jewish education.
“Our aim is to stimulate conversation regarding Chinuch throughout the Lubavitch community,” says Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Director of the Chinuch Office.
“This plan contains the features necessary to advance and energize our most valuable resource, our children. The successful education of each successive group of students is vitally important to the future of Lubavitch,” he added.
An innovative section – still in developmental stages – is “My Classroom,” a private layout of a class where teachers can monitor the schedule, teaching objectives, and track class progress by submitting their class information.
“Teachers can assign student names to desk icons,” the developers said. “The purpose of which is to keep track of individual students’ tests, homework, and behavioral notes by submitting the information. This feature will also generate the average markings of student progress and automatically generate student report cards.”
end of story. why does little arguments always turn into machlokes with comments?…
chabad lite gave themselves the name. it was started by their group in LA. very much like the misnagdim, who self defined themselves in contrast to chassidim.
To 4:
Why are you picking on Chabad regarding internet use. Is Chabad the only one having problems due to inappropriate internet use? No way! Look at the problems plaguing other communities (e.g. inapropriate exploits) – and, yes, their standards of tznius are a little more adhered to than in Chabad. Yet, there still severe things going on there.
To all Misnagdim, I disagree with 5. Welcome to Chabad, but don’t pick on us.
Internet use, in the hands of responsible people, like teachers and those who are not persuaded by their taavahs, is a wonderful way to share educational materials and ideas. But, just as you would not want just anyone having a gun, student use must be carefully filtered and monitored. Students, especially youngsters, can be very curious, even into forbidden territories, CH”V.
My assistance is also very valuable…I spread the knowledge of ‘The 7 Noahide Laws’ on the ‘Internet.’
Number 1: How are shluchims kids in cities that do not have jewish schools able to educate their children?? Obviously you live in a fully lubavitcher neighborhood so you dont know what its like. Number 2: You are an idiot because they are pretty much the same and should be treated as such. You have parental controls for both use them or get rid of it. Number 4: You are such a negative person and because of people like you there is such a name like Chabad Lite. Why should there be a name? who are you to call them… Read more »
The danger of student access to teacher access. Student access to the internet helps explain Chabad’s big tznius issue as well as Chabad Lite and off the derech issues.
How can you say that? there are so many students who gain so much from the online school and other shluchus network, where otherwise they would not be able to interact with other fellow lubavitchers and have a chassidushe curriculum. The internet has been a valuable asset to many shluchim and other people who use it for the right things.
TV and internet are incomparable.
the rebbe was for using technology such as tv positively,
but the rebbe ALSO said that bringing it into the home compares to bringing the cross into the home.
(This is a printed sicha. I am not making it up).