Episode 04: Exploring Love and Loss through Online Discussion

Only Connect: Stories from the DPS MyTech Digital Coaches

High schoolers have big feelings. When it came to teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Manual High School English teacher Brian Jackson tapped into those feelings with the help of technology. Working with Digital Coach Rebecca Carr, Jackson learned to use Schoology discussion boards as a simple “Do Now” to ask students questions about love and heartbreak. This simple, quick-to-implement technique of leveraging technology in the English classroom has ignited the in-class discussion of the play’s themes in powerful ways. Read more. Theme music is from the song “Joker” by Six Umbrellas (freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbr…rellas_-_Joker). Copyright info is here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/