Educational Resources & Tech Tools 08/11/2020

• Designing for Online Learning (8/3/20)

  • An aspect of clear communication comes into play when deciding which elements of each learning experience will be and which will be .
  • Asynchronicity allows students time to work at their own pace, to take time to compose ideas, and to express themselves in ways that might not be possible in real time. In addition, asynchronous work allows students to absorb content, prepare assignments, and complete projects offline: it’s a way to avoid hours of staring at screens.

  • The key questions to consider are these: 

     
     
    • What types of learning experiences require synchronous connection? 
     
    • Which synchronous experiences can be turned into asynchronous experiences?  

• A Letter to Educators Teaching Online for the First Time | EdSurge News

  • You can record lectures. And more lectures. You can stack links on links on links, embedding hypertexts in between.

    At first, when you’re beginning to teach online, please don’t do all of these things. Please resist the easy affordances of the online world. Instead, try to connect.

  • Connect your students to one another in a way that enables them not only to learn content from one another, but also to catch life experiences from one another—to shape one another in the way that only peers can. It’s that simple … and it’s that complex.
  • Students will show you their learning in ways they wouldn’t or couldn’t offline. Students will take risks in their learning that they would never take if they were in a physical room with one another. You’ll be able to assess in new ways, ways that may help you provide better feedback.

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