Sign language class number 3 / myLot

Japan

June 23, 2020 11:11pm CST

I tried today to make the kids leave their mikes off and just sign, but that didn't work very well. I also tried having them practice fingerspelling in pairs; I assigned pairs and they were supposed to type their answers in the chat for their partners to see. It took them a while to figure out that there were supposed to be several people working at one time but finally they got it. If we were in a classroom, I would have paired them off and had them sign to each other for most of the class practice time. One of the girls wanted to know if I thought that a deaf person she knows will be able to understand her if she signs. Since we are in Japan, I said, "Not if she uses Japanese sign language but yes if she uses American sign language." The Deaf woman is apparently educated in the States so my student thinks she knows American Sign Language. It would be really cool if my student can use what she has learned in real life. What have you been able to use in real life that you learned in a class?

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Rain Drain

@fahmita_ (2255)

• Indonesia

24 Jun 20

On campus I learned how to embroider to decorate clothes, hats and bags. During this pandemic, I found it difficult because there were no lecturers to teach. So I learned it on YouTube and finally I was able to embroider my mom and my sister's clothes.

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Denise

@petatonicsca (7070)

• Japan

24 Jun 20

YouTube has nearly everything you need to learn anything, but having a teacher there to actually answer your questions it helps. What kind of embroidery are you putting on your mom and sister's clothes? I used to do embroidery for my friends' baby clothes.

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Rain Drain

@fahmita_ (2255)

• Indonesia

24 Jun 20

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@fahmita_ (2255)

• Indonesia

24 Jun 20

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Anastasia

@narniangirl (45)

• Ukraine

24 Jun 20

Interesting question. Definitely not Maths which I really hated at school. And other exact sciences. However school gave me a nice push English-wise, I had an amazing teacher, who already passed away unfortunately... Due to this teacher I chose my life path, I suppose. Also I learnt the basics of competition at school, since I took part in lots of olympiades. Generally it's thought that school doesn't give knowledge, but rather develops your brain to be able to solve life problems. But honestly I'd rather they taught smth really important at school like cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids, surviving and stuff.

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Denise

@petatonicsca (7070)

• Japan

24 Jun 20

Things like cooking and cleaning would be helpful. Our school does have a home ec class where kids learn a bit about cooking and sewing, and an industrial arts class where they learn to operate things like a saw.

Anastasia

@narniangirl (45)

• Ukraine

25 Jun 20

@petatonicsca we also had smth like that but judging from the fact that being a schoolgirl I was afraid of a piece of meat, I'm not sure those classes were very successful. Everyone was just sitting and eating stuff, listening to music, chatting:))))