Pedagogy

Spotlight on Strategies: Whether your school subscribes to Discovery Education or not, DE's "SOS" approach to teaching digitally can be adapted to fit any digital curriculum. Each technique is designed to help students better process the video content being watched with a task like creating "3 Truths and 1 Lie" or a "Six Word Story".

SOS Blog Articles - Free
Full Array of Instructional Strategies - Subscribers Only

Hyperdocs: Organize an interactive lesson or present an entire unit all within the structure of a single Google Doc. It's that simple. However, it is the collaborative nature of GSuite that makes Hyperdocs perfect for creating a richer experience when designing for remote learning.

Founders Lisa Highfill, Sarah Landis, and Kelly Hilton describe them this way, "HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning. It’s not about teaching technology, it’s about using technology to TEACH."

Getting started is easy as free courses are available for building your first hyperdoc, teaching with remote text-sets, and specifically for using them in a remote learning set-up.

Especially helpful is that an entire community has popped up around hyperdocs, creating a bundle of support resources and free templates.

Much like the learning frames in EduProtocols, once students and teachers develop a familiarity with the format, content can be swapped to make this a "Work smarter not harder" kind of tool.

Free hyperdocs templates:
Official Hyperdocs Site Templates
DrivingDigitalLiteracy - Great assortment that covers many levels and curricular areas.
Ditch That Textbook - 14 Engaging Examples
Karly Moura's Hyperdoc Sharing Extravaganza
Karly Moura's Hyperdocs for teaching 25 different novels
Karly Moura's eLearning Choice Boards - This could probably be its own section on this pedagogy page because choice boards afford teachers the ability to present many tools for digital learning within the convenience of one document.
UsingEducationalTechnology.com - Social Studies Hyperdoc Lessons
Wakelet of Hyperdocs collected around the web

EduProtocols: Mike Chaix, the assistant superintendent in Rancho Cucamonga, California recently called EduProtocols, “Pandemic proof strategies that prepare students to create their future.”

According to creators Marlena Hebern and Jon Corippo, EduPtrotocols are "EduProtocols are instructional lesson frames that are designed to engage students in learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. EduProtocols can be used with any subject, any grade level."

Think classical graphic organizer meets all of the advantages modern technology affords us. Once students learn the task, then the teacher can apply that practice to unlimited amounts of content.

Especially helpful at this point in a pandemic is the special section dedication to distance learning during Covid 19.

Creative EdTech Templates: Media and Social Studies teacher Ryan O'Donnell has found that tapping into students' interests in social media and pop culture is a great way to hook them into learning. Check out his fabulous array of templates where kids create mock posts and magazine articles with core-class content. Not only is it fun, it follows the idea of using the same pedagogical process with varying content.