Articles to Navigate Distance Learning

Articles to Navigate Distance Learning

These articles that provide guidance on developing distance learning lessons and units as well as advice specifically related to moving to online instruction as a result of the coronavirus

• Center for Collaborative Education: So They’ve Closed the Schools–Now What? Tips for teaching remotely.

• Edutopia: OER (Open Education Resources) Roundup is an educators’ guide to open educational resources with information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, and sources for lesson plans and activities.

• Edutopia: What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month

• Edutopia: Free Is Good - Open Educational Resources

• Edutopia: Teaching with Web-Based Resources

• Edutopia: Harnessing the Power of YouTube in the Classroom

• The EduBlogger: Navigate from Kathleen Morris to find information on ways to structure daily instruction, ways video is incorporated throughout the day, timetables, and ways to plan an online lesson. It includes links to Tools for synchronous (live) video conferences, recording asynchronous videos and screencasts.

• The American Federation of Teachers’ offers a Checklist for Distance Learning Questions You Should Ask Now includes specific questions districts must ask themselves regarding how English language learners and students with disabilities will be supported.