How To Design Interactive Learning in Virtual Classroom Environments?

Note to user: Remember your own personalized copies of documents, templates, and items to capture learning are shared within the Google Classroom. If you are not in the Classroom, then please reach out to Aaron Maurer(amaurer@mbaea.org) to learn how to get involved.

This module assumes you know and can do the following:

Competency

Apply lessons and takeaways about their own experiences as learners, both online and offline, to their work with students.
Establish and maintain open communication channels, online and in person, with students, educators, and other stakeholders to support student learning.(Aurora Institute)
Create pedagogical approaches and learning experiences that promote content-based problemsolving and online collaboration.
Understand and manage the face-to-face and online components of lesson planning and organization within a blended course.

Goals of Learning

Learning Outcomes

Understand the science and research about online teaching and learning
Apply the concepts of F2F teaching to online/hybrid
Engage students in exploring their curiosity
Develop lessons to move our thinking to deeper connection

What I will DO in this module:

Watch/listen to the conversation with Doug Bergman
Answer the questions provided to engage in the learning
Complete challenge 1 or 2 or both
Share your findings with other educators

Launch

Think Abouts

What strategies have you found to be working in your classroom?
What structures are not working currently in your classroom?

Learn

Watch/Listen to the Recording

Questions from the show

1:40 - Who is Doug Bergman?
5:30 - What does Doug typically see when working with experts to create high quality courses for online format?
9:00 - Idea 1 - Identify the key sentence to reduce the unnecessary build of getting to the key idea
12:30 - Idea 2 - Inserting quick checks to ensure they are following
14:45 - Idea 3 - Moving into exploration and engagement with material/content quickly
18:00 - Are my strategies short term or long term?
20:40 - How do we identify our key sentence when we don’t have someone like Doug in our corner?
30:00 - How do we create engagement and experience with our content in online teaching?
31:45 - False sense of community
36:45 - How do we create student to student interaction with so much schedule out of our control with our students?
47:45 - Final thoughts from Doug

Video Link

Audio Link

Reflect

If you listen to the podcast version, then you can try to the Walk and Talk method of learning!

Walk and Talk

For this task & for these new environments of teaching and learning we have the opportunity to avoid the typical "sit and get" approach to learning.

For this learning I am asking you to get up, grab some headphones and walk while you listen and reflect. The podcast is 60 minutesso you can break up into two sessions or knock it out in one session.

If you are in a school you could ask permission to walk the halls during your prep or before/after school.

This idea was adapted from this post

EDU Podcast Tasting + Podcasts & Pedometers for PD with Choice and Movement!

Capture ideas by voice typing into your app of choice, but I would recomend adding to a Google Doc or Google Keep

If you need to learn about voice typing, then here is a newsletter and video guide
Voice Typing on Mac, PC, and/or Chromebook

Template

Here is a template(if you are in the course please use the version in Google Classroom) to capture your ideas.
- Feel free to capture ideas in a mode that best serves you. This is just one way to organize thoughts and perhaps a tool you can use with staff and students.

Talk About Your Ideas

Discussion Forum

Share your answers to the questions above in the watching of the video.
Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled How To Design Interactive Learning in Virtual Classroom Environments?

Flipgrid

Share your answers to the questions above in the watching of the video.
Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the topic. This discussion is labeled How To Design Interactive Learnin