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May 5, 2020Distance Learning Allows Students To Learn More About Their Classmates
Distance learning is creating some unique opportunities for Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School students
Take for example students in the criminal justice programs on the Albany and Schoharie campuses who are learning more about their classmates on each campus – even though they are learning in their own homes.
Students from the programs are taking their integrated sciences in a mixed format, with students from both campuses intermingling in the online classes. As a result, Criminal Justice students from Niskayuna and Cohoes are meeting online with their peers from Cobleskill and Duanesburg for the first time.
“I actually like it this way because I can hear the Albany kid’s sides more than the Schoharie kids perspective,” said Isabel Philipp, a junior from Middleburgh.
Philipp and other criminal justice integrated science students were conducting a Socratic Seminar on the Ethics of DNA Evidence in Law Enforcement, said Teacher Dharini Adhvaryu.
Students were asked to research the ways in which DNA evidence is used in law enforcement. They were prompted with questions such as “Do you own your DNA?”, and “Should the government collect a database of DNA samples from all citizens?” Adhvaryu said.
As a result of the mixing of the students from the two classes, students were exposed to differing ideas.
“I know more of the Schoharie kids’ sides because I meet with them every day compared to the Albany kids,” Philipp said. “This allows us to hear different views.”
Melissa Ochoa, a junior from Niskayuna on the Albany Campus concurred.
“It was a very interesting. I enjoyed how interactive the seminar was,” she said.
