I keep seeing Sara Vanderwerf tell people on Twitter that I have some great thinking on this. So I decided I need to blog about my ideas so that I have something I can share with people. (I do not claim to be the best or know the best for all of this, I am just sharing my ideas). First off, my decisions on how I am teaching, whether in the classroom or from a distance are always founded in the Thinking Classroom. This is a set of elements that were researched and organized by Peter Liljedahl. Since I have built my classroom into a Thinking Classroom, my class has become a student-centered, engaged room that gets kids thinking and motivated to figure things out for themselves while also helping each other. If you are not familiar with the Thinking Classroom, I am sharing my google slides and recording of a presentation I did with MDE and MCTM this summer. MDE is working on making the presentation accessible, but in the meantime, the raw recording is below. Link --> Google Slides: The Thinking Classroom Distance Learning Last Spring My school is 1-to-1 chromebooks and we were able to get internet to every home. Most of what I did was Synchronous. Although what I did can be done using other platforms and technology, here is my list:
Here is a video of what I did in the Spring and what I plan to do during Virtual days (every Wednesday for my school, we are hybrid the other days) Link --> Google Slides Hybrid Learning My school is starting with hybrid learning in the high school. I am intrigued to try it, but have a few worries about the execution. We will see. My goal is to still have a Thinking Classroom. I will be blending much of what I do in the classroom and what I did during distance learning. I will be using:
My school put together a little video showing what our hybrid model will look like. It also shows how the OWL works. You can see it here. Here is a video that explains more of my plans for hybrid. Asynchronous Learning Although this is not something that I have to do, I have some ideas. Thanks to my friend, May Vang Swanson, they are even better than what I was thinking on my own. My goal, as always, is to do as much as I can with the Thinking Classroom. Here is my list of what I would use:
As you can see above, one thing that I would add to what I use is Flipgrid. From what I have heard from May and others, it would very much help with making this student-friendly and as mush student discourse as you can get asynchronously. Here is a video explaining what I would imagine Asynchronous would look like. Link ---> Google Slides I hope this is able to help spark some ideas for your classroom. I do not claim to be a know-it-all for technology. So, if you have a great app, website, or resource that would help someone that cannot use what I have used, please share it in the comments.
Manipulatives I am a huge advocate of using manipulative at all levels of mathematics. During a pandemic, we have some challenges:
Good luck to everyone this year. If you would like to visit or as a question, feel free to add a comment, email me ([email protected]) or find me on twitter (@strom_win).
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