Engage in the New Age – #ISTEsla20 Wk 3 Day 4

The following post has been completed as part of my personal reflection as I work through the ISTE Summer Learning Academy #ISTEsla20 Any images, tables, or direct quotes (as indicated with the appropriate formatting) are provided from the specific course or webinar and can be credited to: ISTE Summer Learning Academy. (2020). https://summerlearningacademy.iste.org/

Sonn Sam, Daisy Sam, ISTE summer learning academy, Kirsten Thompson

Week 3 – Day 4 actually has two featured webinars so please consider this Week 3 – Day 4 – Part 2 This is also the LAST webinar component of #ISTEsla20; although I am still working on completing the microcourses. It is facilitated by Sonn and Daisy Sam and is described as follows:

“COVID-19 forced many schools to move online and left teachers scrambling to learn effective online strategies. In the process our young people cannot afford to be left behind. Although, it is understood that good teaching practices are good teaching practices, there are nuanced differences in the virtual space. Join us in exploring best practices and strategies to maximize engagement in the remote learning environment.”

Main Takeaways

UDL & Engagement
- Recruiting Interest
  - choice and autonomy
  - relevance, value and authenticity
  - minimize threats and distractions
- Sustaining Effort & Persistence
  - lessons/activities with clear goals and objectives
  - avoiding isolation and fostering collaboration
  - increase mastery oriented feedback
- Self-regulation
  - promoting self reflection and goal setting
Relationships
- whole group, small group, and one-to-one
- low tech & high impact
- Build in energizers/team builders, guided discussions, checks for understanding
- quickly survey students to determine personality, norms, resources, needs
Engagement
- establish the norms for yourself, students, parents and be clear
- establish time in your schedule to check in on your student data and follow-up accordingly
- set tasks and appointments in your calendar to keep on-track online
- norms for students need to include:
  - access, navigate and use the apps/platforms the way you need
  - how do they ask for support
  - how do they get a hold of you
  - how can they get a hold of their peers
- norms for parents need to include:
  - how to access student assignments/grades
  - how can they communicate with you
  - what supports are available
Embrace the platform you division endorses (Google, Microsoft, etc) and stick with that for security, compatibility, etc
Have students complete a self-reflection survey that you can then mail merge to send in a weekly update to parents
Points of engagement
- synchronous or asychronous
- small group, large group, one-to-one
- multi-mediums in presenting content
Pedagogy: digesting content

Questions

How can you humanize the learning experience in the online space?
- What about students who may be distance learning without technology?

General PD Thoughts

Today’s webinar shared the following ed tech tools: Google Forms, Mural, Kahoot, Microsoft Forms, Typeform, MailChimp, and Voice Spice.
Thank you to Sonn & Daisy for sharing!

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