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Learning Overview
Learning Overview
Before you dive in, check out this introductory video to get a sense of the learning ahead and begin to contemplate how you can go about designing meaningful hybrid learning for your students.
Before you dive in, check out this introductory video to get a sense of the learning ahead and begin to contemplate how you can go about designing meaningful hybrid learning for your students.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
• What do we mean by hybrid learning?
• What do we mean by hybrid learning?
• What all do I need to consider when designing learning in a hybrid model?
• What all do I need to consider when designing learning in a hybrid model?
Key Ideas
Key Ideas
• Intentionally designing learning to build and support a culture of learners
• Intentionally designing learning to build and support a culture of learners
• Not just about the delivery of task
• Not just about the delivery of task
• Collaborative approach with colleagues, students, and families
• Collaborative approach with colleagues, students, and families
Activate Your Thinking
Activate Your Thinking
Liv, a 15-year-old Canadian student, has astonished many with her short film called “Numb.” She created this short video as part of an art project to depict the tough daily routine that became her norm during the months of hybrid learning throughout the pandemic. No educator sets out to create this experience for their learners. So with that in mind, as you watch the video, think about what is the experience that you want to create for your learners.
Reflection on the Video
Reflection on the Video
In thinking about the experiences you want for your students, choose 3 words to describe how you want your students to feel as a part of your hybrid learning classroom. CLICK THE POLL and enter your 3 words. See what words others used in the window below.
Acquire Some Ideas
Acquire Some Ideas
Hybrid learning can be defined in many ways. Essentially it involves a mix of synchronous learning (learning that happens in real-time, either in-person or through video conference) and asynchronous learning (learning that happens on the student's own time/schedule).
There has been loads of research conducted on the efficacy of hybrid learning. The key takeaway from the findings is that it matters a lot less whether educators are teaching in-person or from a distance. It's what we DO with our students and the learning we DESIGN for them that matters most (not the medium we do it in).
In the learning ahead we've honed in on 4 interrelated and important components for an educator to consider as they design their approach to hybrid learning.
Relationships & Community
Norms & Expectations
Learning Design
Assessment
While each component affects and compliments the other components, we'll dive into each separately so you can carefully consider how you will intentionally address each in your hybrid learning classroom.
“Great educators are 'Learning Designers' who seek to purposely 'step into the shoes' of their students to deeply understand their feelings, experiences, and perspectives, and they use what they learn about their students to guide all their actions.”- SD23 Learning Technology Team
“Great educators are 'Learning Designers' who seek to purposely 'step into the shoes' of their students to deeply understand their feelings, experiences, and perspectives, and they use what they learn about their students to guide all their actions.”- SD23 Learning Technology Team
As you watched in Liv's short film, none of us set out to have our students engage in an experience that is deflating, disengaging, and ultimately unsuccessful. That being said, the more you understand how things are going for your students the better you’ll be equipped to improve your design of learning FOR them. Without our everyday face-to-face interactions in a hybrid model it is absolutely critical that we check in with our students often to see what’s working and what’s not. Be sure to solicit feedback from students regularly:
Are they feeling connected to you and their peers? If so, how? If not, what's missing for them?
Do they understand the norms and expectations?
Do they know what they are learning and why they are learning it? Is the learning meaningful to them?
Are they feeling authentically involved in the assessment process?
Students are at the centre of all these components. If you seek to understand their authentic lived experience, you'll then be able to design learning that is meaningful and responsive to each of their individual needs.
Apply - Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Apply - Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Reflect back... on your experiences in the last 3 months of the 2019/20 school year. When it came to designing hybrid learning for your students, what did you learn?
What worked well? What was challenging?
Looking ahead... what do you want to learn more about when it comes to designing meaningful hybrid learning for your students?
What's one thing you want to learn more about and why is it important for you and your students?
Key Ideas Recap
Key Ideas Recap
• Intentionally designing learning to build and support a culture of learners
• Intentionally designing learning to build and support a culture of learners
• Not just about the delivery of task
• Not just about the delivery of task
• Collaborative approach with colleagues, students, and families
• Collaborative approach with colleagues, students, and families
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