Lessons Learned with Remote Teaching – #ISTEsle20 Wk 2 Day 4

Lessons Learned with Remote Teaching – #ISTEsle20 Wk 2 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/


Lynn Girolamo, Liz Simons, ISTE, summer learning academy, Kirsten Thompson


Week 2 – Day 4 focuses on “Online Learning that Empowers All Students”. It is facilitated by Lynn Girolamo and Liz Simons and described as:

Using key feedback from our learners, we know that students will learn online when they feel they have a purpose, a voice, some choice and feedback. Though online learning can feel “humanless,” there are ways to build relationships and increase social-emotional learning (SEL) in a digital format. Find out how to design online learning for all students so they are empowered to succeed.

Main Takeaways

  • Understand feedback from students, families, and educators from the experiences during March-June 2020
    • This time was emergency remote teaching/learning which is not the same as online learning
  • Synthesize the lessons we should learn from that feedback
    • Resilient Teaching: intentionally integrating methods of teaching that easily adapt to rapidly changing contexts, to be capable of leveraging technololy to move fluidly between environments.
    • Focus on social emotional learning first
    • Focus on high-quality lesson design and delivery
    • Provide consistent authentic feedback
  • Plan for strategies to implement moving forward
    • Compliance -> Engagement -> Empowerment
    • Maslow before Bloom
    • Empower students with voice and choice
    • Make thinking visible through screencasting
    • Choice boards, learning menus
    • Have interactive slides
    • Create more and consume less: Project Based learning, Genius Hour
    • Synchronous vs Asynchronous
    • Use a LMS, learning management system, to have a “one stop shop”
    • Include interactive lessons so students aren’t just consuming
    • Don’t assume students know how to use a tool. Teach how to use a tool prior to requiring it for content
    • Meet the needs of all learners and ensure accessibility
    • High quality feedback is:
      • specific
      • timely
      • goal oriented
      • personal/authentic
      • involves the learner

Questions

  • How might we help students feel safe?
  • How might we help students feel that they belong?

General PD Thoughts

  • If using tools outside of your main LMS to gain feedback or build conversations during a presentation (like social media, back channels, etc) it is helpful to include the account handle, hashtag, link, or participation code in the footer of each slide.
  • A disclosure was included at the start sharing that any shared resources would be fully summarized and sent out at the end of the PD; this provided an opportunity to sit-back and take in the information without rushing to catch specifics and worry about missing the URL.
  • Pauses were specifically built-in for participants to take notes/reflect and for presenters to visit the chat and answer questions
  • Today’s webinar shared the following ed tech tools: ThoughtExchange, Nearpod, Padlet, Flipgrid, SeeSaw, Pear Deck, EdPuzzle, Wizer.me, Nearpod
  • Thank you to Lynn and Liz for sharing!

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