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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.
Continually take note of what is or is not working (via student-level data, technology applications, pedagogical strategies, supervisor feedback, etc) and then take action to iteratively improve. (Aurora Institute)
Identify the characteristics and components of your current strategies to teaching/job.
Consider how to utilize one or more of tools/settings to be more productive in your context.
Listen/watch to the conversation with Scott McLeod
Reflect on some internal questions about your practice
Engage in dialogue with other educators about the issues you are facing.
Accept and complete the challenge!
What are the elements in your online/hybrid teaching you wish to improve?
What are some of the biggest elements you wish to improve in the actual learning online?
Questions/Ideas to Consider
1:30 - Who is Scott McLeod?
3:30 - What are schools doing to find success in this hybrid, online, and F2F teaching?
8:30 - How do we begin to tackle engagement when it is more important than ever before?
13:50 - Why we need to do less, not more!
20:00 - How do we blend the online, hybrid, F2F worlds into one cohesive thought process, lesson planning, etc.?
25:30 - How do we make better use of the live time we have with our students whether that is in person or through a screen?
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 40 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
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
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.
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 Ideas For The New World of Teaching & Learning
Share your answers to the questions above in the listening to the podcast
Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the topic. This discussion is labeled Scott McLeod
Step 1: Analyze all the things you are currently doing
Step 2: Design a strategic plan to do LESS
Step 3: Utilize the plan to see how your plan works
Step 4: Share your plan and the results on how it worked for you in Flipgrid or Discussion Group
Website - Dangerously Irrelevant
Book - Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces) (Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve)