In this final post in lessons learned from a year of disruption, we’ll focus on things remote instruction revealed the full importance of more clearly. Perhaps one of the biggest things we learned was how quickly an online class can die a slow death if a a norm is passivity rather than a norm of engagement…
In a year of massive educational challenges schools now confront the latest new challenge. How to bring students back to the classroom after a year of reduced learning and social isolation, with dramatically increased inequity. This raises the question: What to do first—over the summer perhaps, even before the new year starts–especially in the area of…
Part 2: New Learning We Can Use This is the second in our series of post around the lessons we’ve learned from remote instruction. In this post we will focus on some of our new learnings – things that hadn’t fully considered before spending a year remotely. We’ve long talked about the importance of Participation Ratio and…
Part 1 – Doubly Important: Re-Building Community and Attention After a year of synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid learning, our heads are swirling with new terms, new platforms, and new normals. Now, as we start to emerge, we find ourselves reflecting not just on the challenges of the past year, but about silver linings. Surely there are…
I’m on the home stretch, I think- I’m wrapping up the manuscript of TLAC 3.0 this week which means it’ll be out in late summer. Meanwhile I’m going to start sharing some excerpts here on the blog. A couple of them are going to be major as the kids say, but I actually thought I’d start…