A Quick PD on how to teach remotely in times of need.
Tools to Try: These can all be used with Canvas.
Flipgrid - helps students share with each other when they can't be face to face
Edpuzzle- lets you insert questions and quizzes into YouTube videos.
TES Blendspace- lets you design a whole class of activities or activity choices in one convenient place.
Many More Tools -and how to get them FREE
Helpful Resources: Courtesy of the March 17th #BasecampPD session "Equity in Isolation"
Paul Gorski’s work may offer particular direction in dealing with the challenges that we are facing → offers a broad scope of how societal issues impact students in schools → systemic biases and structures that exist and will be exacerbated by COVID-19 → ideology and how it connects to practical strategies
Offer students consistency at this time → thinking about social and emotional well being of our students
Focus on the intersectionality of issues related to equity: How is this impacting students differently?
The emotional/financial impact that this will have on students’ homes must be taken into account
What does reentry look like for students? How do we value and acknowledge the many experiences that they will have.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/us/impact-coronavirus-long-term-school-closures/index.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/coronavirus-quarantines-rural-students-125048
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/speaking-up-against-racism-around-the-new-coronavirus
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/03/09/shut-down-by-coronavirus-schools-scramble-to.html
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/flipgrid-your-next-discussion-or-presentation How to use Flipgrid with photos of how to get started (I wrote this before schools closed but its still the same concept. You can make it so only people with school email address can join.
Instructables YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwPpA7LpjUj9CICPf90TlQ/featured
Free access to active history simulations middle grades and high school https://www.activehistory.co.uk/top_activities/?fbclid=IwAR31Fh2sOcDxJnzSrhJUhYdng2dSn6neTy0_VP9VsTSLpAZ-7AV_3eJHEtU
Free SEA homeschool products - including an acids and bases lesson like Hogwarts Potions class
Tons of free sites for learning includes links to online encyclopedias, magazines, lessons and more. Some only temporarily free and you might need a code.
Free Brainpop to use if your school is closed - fill out this form and they send you a code. I just filled it out myself
Here is an article I liked. I’m thinking hard about how to make it interesting and fun but not so hard or convoluted they can’t do it from home.
Quote from the article:
“The danger in moving to an online learning environment is that this process of learning as a collaborative process between a learner and an empowering educator is broken. A pattern of learning can easily emerge where the teacher sets a task or distributes an activity and the students are expected to complete this with minimal input. Once the task is completed it is submitted for evaluation, the learner moves on to the next task and has forgotten the intent of their initial learning task by the time feedback is received. It is a pattern where there is little to no opportunity for the learner to refine their response while they are engaged in their learning.
A much more productive pattern of learning is maintained when the learner and teacher utilise the affordances of the online learning environment to enhance opportunities for dialogue. The learner engages in the process of learning, shares initial ideas, poses questions, explores their wonderings. Draft ideas are evolved mutually. Misunderstandings are addressed. The learner understands that incomplete works shared with their teacher will be a foundation for their future learning. “